Bernard Jackman

Absolutely, and when you think of the doom and gloom after that French game in the Six Nations and a tough November, if we could end up with a Challenge Cup, a Champions Cup, a Triple Crown, you know, within a kick of winning the Six Nations until Thomas Ramos kicked it out of the dead against England, it would be a brilliant finish to it and a big turnaround.

The under-20s are going well, the women are going well.

So, yeah, but obviously, if we weren't to lift silverware tonight or tomorrow, it puts a bit of a dampener on it.

Yeah, so they missed out on the top eight.

But winning the Challenge Cup gets them into the Champions Cup next year, which we know from the issues around Munster financially is worth around a million euro at least.

But also it's where the players want to play.

So in terms of retention, recruitment...

If you're not in that competition, it is harder to get the best players.

They want to be there.

It's like the Champions League in soccer.

But fortunately, it won't be just... From an Irish rugby point of view, if Ulster win tonight, Connacht miss out on the top.

Sorry, they're in the top eight, but they miss out on the Champions Cup next year.

So the only way we can have four teams in the Champions Cup at this stage is that Ulster win tonight, which for a short period would knock Connacht out.

But then if Connacht went and won the URC...

they would qualify for that.

So it's highly likely that we'll have all four teams in.

But Ulster have a chance tonight to win a silverware for the first time in 20 years and guarantee their place in the Champions Cup next year.

Yeah, I think they're bigger underdogs than Leinster tomorrow.

I mean, Montpellier are stacked with quality.

They've changed their tact.