Alison Miller

Yeah, they're restructuring now next year again.

And they'll have playoffs and different things like that.

But yeah, like it is...

And like even, yeah, like not everyone can play for Ireland or not everyone can play professional rugby.

So the AL men or women is a really good standard.

And we have to remember that it's only a very small portion of, you know, players that come through academies or come through school system or club systems that will get to play professional rugby.

Yet they're all very, very good players and then they get to play in the AL.

So rugby is not just for that select elite few that can play professional.

We have really good players playing in the AL, men and women, week in, week out.

And it's really important that they have that opportunity to do that.

And we do know that like...

you know, development of players is not always linear.

And we will have anomalies.

We will have someone like Jerry Kerr that has come out of the L and then absolutely, like I said to him one day, give him a contract, look at him, like he's able to perform.

Or, you know, I looked at Joey Carberry a few years ago when he went from playing and then going to Leinster and then doing what he's doing.

So in terms of, long way to the way, in terms of athletic development of players, there will be people that will go a different journey or a different direction and might, you know, have a few years in AIL and then go on and get picked up.

And not just, like there's lads that have gone from AIL to like French clubs or, you know, D1 French clubs or English clubs that we don't necessarily know about.

You are so right, because like that, it's not linear, you know, and even form or youth or someone is in your, there's maybe a position, I don't know, you're 12 and there's three or four 12s there and then, you know, it opens up.

So it is important for that.

Yeah, it'll be a tight game because they've both beaten each other this year already.