{"id":441397,"date":"2026-01-27T20:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/441397\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T20:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:10:09","slug":"its-incredible-the-amount-of-chat-from-irish-players-across-the-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/441397\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It’s incredible the amount of chat from Irish players across the board’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former Ireland<\/a> hooker Bernard Jackman feels there has been a \u201creaction\u201d from referees in the way they are treated by Irish players in matches, which he believes \u201cwill be really worrying\u201d for head coach Andy Farrell.<\/p>\n

It has been a growing concern for Leinster<\/a> in recent seasons that their captains have failed to ingratiate themselves with referees in matches, and while Jackman feels captains in Ireland are \u201coverdoing it,\u201d he feels this is an issue \u201cacross the board\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the RT\u00c9 Rugby podcast<\/a> this week, the pundit was responding to an incident in Connacht\u2019s loss to Leinster at the weekend, where Bundee Aki<\/a> was penalised by referee Eoghan Cross for questioning his call, having already been warned.<\/p>\n

But Jackman said that now in every ruck \u201cthere are four or five Irish players in a provincial jersey shouting and telling the referee what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

With referees growing increasingly wise to this, Jackman feels this will be a concern for head coach Farrell ahead of their Guinness Six Nations<\/a> campaign, which begins against France<\/a> on Thursday, February 5.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat will be really worrying for Farrell,\u201d Jackman said. \u201cIt seems, within the refereeing fraternity that there\u2019s been a reaction to the amount of chat from the Irish players \u2013 when you\u2019re commentating on games you have a clearer audio of the ref mic than the TV viewer \u2013 it\u2019s incredible, across the board.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also think we\u2019re overdoing it captaincy-wise, in terms of pressurising referees to look at things. It\u2019s non-stop. In the background, every ruck, there are four or five Irish players in a provincial jersey shouting and telling the referee what to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven the one at the weekend for Connacht, Eoghan Cross, the referee, he warned Jack Carty<\/a> and Bundee and you could hear from his tone and you could see from his body language that he was on the edge of saying \u2018enough\u2019s enough,\u2019 he\u2019s warned them. A couple of plays later, he has to penalise Bundee for questioning his decision, when in actual fact the decision that Bundee was questioning was the right decision from the referee, Bundee was wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Farrell wants to be able to show clips and give examples of this costing teams and Irish players overstepping the mark, he has an abundance of them over the last four weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

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