Nathan Johns
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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.
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Normally with 20s, scrums can decide the game when it doesn't go well.
So slightly strange, maybe, that it did go so well, but things elsewhere collapsed, so to speak.
Doris, in the last pod, you said you were looking forward to seeing how they played, the style of play and the attitudes and maybe how they go about looking to space compared to maybe what's done at senior level.
Having now watched them for a game, where do you stand on that?
Well, it's just funny you talk about styles of play.
It's almost impossible to not think of positive, free-flowing, enjoyable styles than the top 14 final.
Toulouse winning fourth in a row, I think that's right, fourth boucle in a row.
And look, I don't really know what I have to say about this other than it's just a joy to watch that competition.
I mean, just that clip of the Movaka try alone, the hooker sidestepping and goose-stepping and throwing a dummy from...
20 yards out and running it in from further out it's just yeah it's just very very entertaining I know that's not insightful analysis or anything but just highlighting that I thoroughly enjoyed watching that occasion and Darius based on our conversations every week I suspect you did as well yeah like Toulouse were great and Montpellier were kind of drawn into a game as well
That's quite an interesting point you make there about one team getting dragged into a
more open game than they wanted to i mean traditionally it's it's quite hard for a team to do that normally it's the team that wants to drag the other team into more of an arm wrestle and a forward set piece dominant game normally it's easier to do that than to drag the team into a right let's let's go end to end here a little bit so that's that was quite impressive to do that
I'll continue my conversation with John and Gordon after the break.
Welcome back to The Counter-Up.
Still here with John O'Sullivan and Gordon Darcy picking through all of this week's rugby stories.
Right, let's move on to Ireland, given we're back into that international swing of things.
I'm trying to think about what is interesting about this series.
Obviously, look, the Nations Championship is a new competition.
Ireland are going to prioritise trying to win a cup or winning enough games as opposed to blooding players for a World Cup.
One would suspect, given the selection of the squad, albeit we'll see what happens for that Japan game in between the two.
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