Alan Quinlan

But I feel he just needs an opportunity to draw a line in the sand this year, sit down with his own coaches and his own group and try and develop a structure and a standard around the player playing squad.

And bring in some young players, try and upskill them and get them involved.

And the only way you do that is by playing matches.

And just get a bit of enthusiasm and vigor back in the group.

Because there is some very good players there.

There's no doubt about that.

I think when you go down into the depth, it becomes... And like most teams, if you lose 8, 10, 12 players for a quarterfinal of a URC, most squads will be...

very much so.

So that's the mitigation at the weekend.

But the overall inconsistency hasn't been there.

And the fans know it.

And I think I've always said this, and I'm consistent in saying this, if you have fight, spirit, passion, commitment, desire...

in your performances, the Munster fans will clap and applaud that.

There's no one under any sort of false illusions.

I saw one message coming through.

Would it be better next year in Europe to actually go out and play young players in the four pool games and kind of forfeit it in the sense of we're not going to win that competition anyway and give them opportunities to expose them to European rugby.

And

The answer is no, because you can't do that in Europe and we've too much DNA involved in the competition.

But there is a case of throwing caution to the wind a little bit next season in the URC and just trying to bring through some young players.

And then the guys who get shifted to the side who don't start, it's up to them then to raise their standards to that Jordan Henderson type drive, desire,