Brett Igoe

McCluskey's coaching Jude Possilway and they have to do it with the same frame, you know, maybe a small bit more speed.

I'm not sure.

I wouldn't like to put them on the starting gates, but Jesus, like a carbon copy, the ability to offload out of contact was one where he was kind of nearly on the ground and the ball just popped out.

And those kind of long levers that you see from McCluskey, like the twin towers inside in the midfield and the ball just coming out, you know, two or six or four each or whatever they are.

But McCluskey can win that contact because he's about 150 kilos, isn't he?

he's well up above 110 and that's why he's winning contact and going in quite high but I think Pastelveit is in a similar vein he's quite tall and rangy but he's the same on the defensive side of the ball he's well able to get in over a breakdown and cause a lot of trouble that's where I was like Jesus will this fella leave my ball alone that's why he started speaking about him so yeah I'm going to keep I'm going to keep speaking about him I think because I actually love watching him play I think there's a lot of threat in that Ulster midfield and

And another one that absolutely bypassed me, I've seen Jack Murphy play since he was in Clontarf and I saw some headlines and a couple of articles last night, the 21-year-old, and I was like, Jesus, this is frightening.

Like a 21-year-old and he's so many games under his belt.

I think from people watching on the outside, it's hard to understand sometimes the age of these lads when you've seen them for so long.

And you have to actually remind yourself that they're still young and they will make mistakes.

And Jack Murphy has been so impressive within that Ulster squad.

I think he hasn't been challenged enough with competition and all the rest of it.

And obviously that will come.

But to say the 21-year-old, Richie was speaking beforehand saying, his mother's looking after my home and I might look after him inside and here.

in Ulster and I you know when you say he's 21 it does remind you like that these guys are really punching above their weight and they're very exciting to watch like Neil we would have said that they had you know the most amount of internationals that are about to break through and I think that has started happening so there's a lot of excitement there but as Brett said they need to back that up as well because when they played against Munster you were thinking geez all of a sudden that squad would compete in an AL final as opposed to a URC final you know

Yeah, I don't think we'll see the same rise translating into the Champions Cup just because of, or even domestically, because of the squad depth that Brett spoke about.

But at the same time, we've spoken here for the guts of 18 months about Ulster and the Challenge Cup and what it's going to do for their young squad and everything else.

So, like, you know, don't get me wrong, the target has absolutely been kind of set out and achieved.

I think that this is where they were supposed to go for this squad to bring belief and to bring players like Jack Murphy and Coe

to another level of their game and that's what they're achieving I think win or lose I think a good performance and lose we'll still be speaking about them being a success you know if they have a poor performance and win obviously the same thing but I think a poor performance and losing in the final would be kind of a little bit challenging but at the same time you know this is what we said they should be doing they're gone the whole way in the tournament I think domestically it's going to be hard in the next two weeks because of what we see in the drop off in their squad when they're trying to rest a few fellas or to get injuries but