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

saying that his game is polished i think he'll in a great way i think he'll be saying that he's building something back now i think he's confident well i can't say what he's feeling but it looked like his confidence was uh took a bit of a knock and i think the tour has done him unbelievably uh well and i think he's he'd be looking at november trying to cement his place and bringing that to another level because he has it in him um so i think it is a much more positive conversation but again players have different attributes like you know we've been speaking about the 10 jersey for a

Yeah, I want to say from the outset, I think I had two tweets after the game, both about refereeing decisions because I thought the Luke Jacobson one was a red card.

If I can get back to that in a second.

And I think the other one I jumped on was somebody analysis after the game and Peter O'Mahony was saying just call it, bang, and sort it out.

So there are two things I want to talk about.

But the first thing I would say is that the game was absolutely not won or lost by Nick Berry.

I think New Zealand...

categorically won the game we're in full control so when you see some of the again social media stuff saying irish cribbing and moaning blaming the referee i don't think anyone in ireland is blaming the referee for for losing that game so that's the first thing but then we can get into some of the refereeing style and i don't like that much coaching from referees i speak to

I speak to referees at an amateur level you know weekly and season and I think I'm consistent enough in what I say as well coaching fair enough they're looking to you speak to referees and say we have to manage a game as well and we're trying to and some referees are actually what would I say they think the flow of the game is more in their control than it is and

It's not like let the players behave in a certain way in accordance with your refereeing and the laws of the game.

So can we be... And that's one of the things I said actually in one of my tweets was rugby is still trying to not referee its own laws.

The laws are in place.

Use them and let's get on with it.

If players change their behaviour, great.

If they don't change their behaviour, players make a high penalty count.

Referees don't.

So the only point where...

the referee the referee may cause that that that high penalty count is if it's kind of like a systematic thing where they're doing different things and we don't get consistency anyway let me come back to it so the breakdown yeah he was saying tight burn six hands away a lot but like the part that i don't really like is that he was trying this terminology i've picked up some some referees as a you know clear runway so you don't allow the poach unless the tackler has rolled away now i i think that can be very harsh at times because the

the arriving attacking breakdown players are in there so quickly that the player gets trapped or or they're just everything happens so quickly it's very hard to roll away very quickly and there could be a poach opportunity on I obviously we all want to clear runway for nines to come in and scoop the ball away and play a fast tempo but at the same time we can't just say because you get the the Kayla Doris when my hands are on the ball I'm going can I take that no no don't take it hands off sure two three seconds you've slowed it down well enough you've done your job anyway at that stage yeah

that's all he's trying to do whereas if you ping that one he's not going back in there like you know or if he does it's another penalty and i've been involved in games where we've been pinged five six times for the same thing we haven't changed our behavior so like who's that and whose problem is that you know so i just think my my preference for the referee is to go in strong and what you're going to tolerate make your standard penalty and then players will change or they don't change and the flow of the game is up i know like

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