Jonny Holland

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862 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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RTÉ Rugby Podcast · How do Ireland close the gap after a season of ups and downs? · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

They'll be talking about what they left behind.

And sometimes with some of those, like the James Gibson Park one, obviously, the McCluskey exit, sometimes you just kind of scratch them off because, yeah, you can go and find the answers all you want, but it can take you a long time to go over and back on it when it just won't happen the next day.

And I know you can't just assume a game will come together, but sometimes you have to scratch them off as something that just doesn't happen.

The McCluskey one,

i just don't know what they're doing like they're on a 15 with mccloskey's first carry and then they go to play if you're going to play you continue well sorry that's not true if you're going to play you're gonna you continue to play for the opportunity that you're trying to get or you know what are you really doing it for i know you can have a cut see what's on and then put your foot in the ball and exit but they've gone in field to come back to an edge where normally that's where you're having a cut and then you put your foot in the ball after that phase

but when you see like a more maybe you know a less risk averse attack coach might say like there's a 3v2 outside McCluskey if the ball went to hand to Sam Prendergast Hugo Keenan and I think Jimmy O'Brien was outside him was it arguably there's a two two defenders kind of chasing them out but this is what happens in attack when you're running your own 22 the 3v2 might look like it's on but

what's the rhythm of the game that you're trying to chase?

Like you've just closed the gap to seven points in a game that you probably didn't have your best opening quad or whatever else.

Get the ball to between the 10-meter line and the halfway line, have a good defensive set, get a turnover, get back up the pitch, and all of a sudden it's a different game, like, isn't it?

So why they were trying to run these structures out of their 22 at that time of the game, I won't understand that one.

so there's loads of things that they and then the other thing I would say is when they did score the Jack Conan try there was serious rhythm with that and momentum and that's what they'll say they stand over but also in the start of the second half when McCluskey came to life Conan on an edge McCarthy got rumbling I know there was a penalty and they went to touch and McCarthy had a peel around the corner that's the same phase isn't it and then they kind of went around the corner and McCarthy I didn't see the

grounding i don't know did anyone see it beside the referee but you know it's a there's there's serious rhythm to that play as well so like if you take those two moments um and then like you look at the prendergast pass for the try i think he could have picked both options and he was after scoring with frawley um or hugo keenan on the edge because they set up a nice little structure um there's some really really good play in there so then you have to try and strip back why the poor play happened and sometimes you're just errors like and things you can't

really explain as a coach you're going to have to try but you can't just ignore them because other stuff comes down the track but at the same time it's just not something we're used to seeing from them which is disappointing for them but it gives you an easier answer afterwards doesn't it

Well, I think just the first part of that, I think the All Blacks played with an enormous amount of clarity.

That's what it looked like from the outside, and that's what, you know, when you speak about game plans and stuff, Ireland didn't look like they were very clear, even though that's surprising from an Irish perspective, because they normally are, and they've spent a lot of time together, which is why I think it's uncharacteristic.

New Zealand played with an absolute level of clarity that allowed them to express themselves physically, and that's what you're hoping to do as a coach, I think, is give them enough clarity that they can go and play rugby afterwards, but

For a guy like Ruben Love, I know he's nearly 100 club games, isn't he?

Something like that.

Yeah, he's got eight caps.

He's a little bit older maybe than some other New Zealand players that break into their team, like a 25 now, which sounds a bit mad maybe.

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