Alan Quinlan

um you know we had a situation years ago with Damien D'Alende and RG Snyman where there was outside money came in to top up their contracts that you could get two world cup winners it feels like it just needs a little injection like that where you bring in you know Marius van der Merwe is the only overseas signing at the moment I know Alex Nankerville is overseas next year maybe the end of next year he becomes Irish qualified so there's there's one position available there's talks that it's

It's in the tight end area that they want to bring somebody in.

Will they get a little bit of leeway to get a fourth?

Again, these laws or rules are not set in stone.

But I do think, and look, Connacht and Ulster will argue their point that they need help and support as well.

Munster needs, aside from this review, they need the IFU to have a close look at this whole setup as well and David Humphries to look and see what's

what's needed, what's required here, structurally making it better.

And again, look, the idea of the four provinces from the RFU's point of view is that they become self-sufficient, that they start generating their own funds, that there's not an over-reliance on the union every time to bail people out.

um all squads have been cut a little bit there is a tightening of the belt around finances so it's not it's not easy but it does need a a real structural review um from top to bottom and just try and find out where where this all kind of went wrong and where like aside from the roger randall stuff for the redundancies which is is weighed heavily on the province i think

The inconsistency around the performance and some of the comments are, yes, what has Clayton McMillan brought?

Where's the identity?

It's difficult.

And I think he's come into a group last summer not really knowing any of the individuals and trying to chop and change and get to know people.

And it's been difficult.

I think if he had his time back, maybe he would have not made as many changes.

Some of them were through injury.

Some of them were through necessity to try and keep players fresh.

So it's difficult.

But the quality and depth of the squad is not good enough.

There is some very good players in there.