Nathan Johns

speaker

4,221 appearances 35 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3d ago

Nathan Johns’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 35 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 10.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

The Counter Ruck: The Irish Times Rugby Podcast · Reaction: Ireland squeeze home against Australia · 4 Jul 2026 podcast

And I thought, you know what, that was just a much more enjoyable experience watching them doing that than necessarily watching Ireland rely on penalties and go, you know, five meter top plays. matched

And so maybe I'm going, oh, well, look at Australia played much nicer when they had the ball, therefore they should have won. matched

Whereas actually they only did that for 40 minutes. matched

That's a fascinating point on Byrne, because I look at the risk of giving the game up a little bit. matched

Watching from my UK base, I was watching you on ITV rather than the Virgin coverage back home. matched

And you made that point during the last, what, 15 phases or so that Australia had, that Ty Byrne was monitoring those gaps between the ruck and the spacing and all that. matched

And he was the one who actually swallowed up Tate McDermott when he went for a snipe. matched

And that, if he didn't do that, he's 20 metres ahead and all of a sudden Australia are in a much better position chasing the game. matched

John O'Sullivan, you're here. matched

I'm going to bring you in and I'm going to bring you in on your favourite topic. matched

Is it overly simplistic to say that deprived of the wingers that finished the Six Nations in Mr. Balakun and Tommy O'Brien, Ireland looked a very, very different team in attack today? matched

Obviously, Balakun was supposed to start but pulled out with a hamstring issue. matched

Where are you in the concern-o-meter on that? matched

Particularly that first half attacking display. matched

Well, maybe throughout because Australia's discipline certainly got worse as the game went on. matched

I think there's a world, if Australia commits five or six fewer penalties, and I know this is if my granny had balls argument, but if they cut down their real discipline, you know, big Joe Schmidt bugbear, as you will know, Darce, matched

Ireland, the public don't get the platform to come back into that game. matched

They made three line breaks, having made 125 carries. matched

Australia made 11. matched

Where are you on that just lack of cutting edge, lack of ability to find space? matched

Showing 1441–1460 of 4,221 · page 73 of 212