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

supporters will give out or the flow of the game there's TV and there's a bigger picture but referees can only do what they do they can't dictate the shape of the game players and coaches will do that more than them you know so that's where my gripe is but don't tell me that Ty Byrne was told to get out of there more than Geordie Barrett or you know that the All Blacks weren't coached as much as Ireland the breakdown was very consistent I would say I'm just not sure I fully liked how it was refereed

No, I'm not sure because I think we'd only have more questions.

If you were looking at Tye Burner, his hands on the ball, looking at the ref and then he just takes them off, I think we'd be going, what's he telling them?

So I think hearing that is probably OK.

The part I didn't like, sometimes in the breakdown, he'd say, leave it alone, it's on his side.

It can be on his side all you want, he can still take it if he's legal.

I didn't like that communication because it doesn't matter whose side it's on.

If someone's legal, they're legal.

but i think what he was doing there was there was a messy breakdown someone has tried to poach someone has taken them off their feet or whatever happened and he's trying to be like the contest the contest is over so like i didn't have um i actually didn't have a major issue with nick berry's refereeing at all um maybe i didn't like the style of the breakdown coaching to get free flowing game you get the free flowing game from making your penalty and players adapt um

I actually watched it back without my kids being around me.

I got a better view on it.

And I remember thinking there's not an issue with Nick Berry's refereeing at all.

It's very, very consistent, which is the biggest thing we're looking for from a referee is the consistency.

So I think he did that really well.

The issue I had was with maybe the big calls and I didn't agree with the Jacobson one.

yeah but that happened that happened 100 times in the game so like you know yeah clear runway but when he says himself around the try or the penalty being disallowed after that or during that foul play supersedes everything so just because the runway wasn't clear doesn't mean you're allowed to come in and lose your feet or lose your arm and that's I didn't see enough mitigation there in the slightest I don't think that arm was coming for James Ryan or for Josh Van der Fleer anyway I just think it got a little bit more caught because of James Ryan

it was the responsibility is with the the responsibility is with the arriving player making the contact get around him if he falls over he's going to get a penalty so like you can't just decide to fly off your feet now the the only thing I don't really appreciate is people going oh that looked horrendous it has to be a record well of course it looked horrendous because it was horrendous

Yeah, but people will say he was off his feet, he was slightly around the side.

That's obviously because of James Ryan not rolling away or being in the way as well.

I'm not really worried about the accumulation of things he might have done.

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