Caolán Scully

Martin Verko, similarly as well, who's the team manager, seemingly has got a great rapport.

So, even if the on-field stuff hasn't been great and Munster only won 50% of their competitive games this year, off-field, there's a lot of trust in those guys.

There's a lot of faith in them.

And I think

if Munster stick with Macmillan, I think his idea for how rugby should be played, plus the young players and the type of young players that they're bringing through, I think we will see Munster kick on and be a top four URC team going forward, which that level of consistency is what, you know, pushed Macmillan into the likes of the Mario Black job and so forth, because he was doing great work with the Chiefs.

Now, if he could send someone like Damien McKenzie or someone like that north, that would be great as well, but

You know, beggars can't be choosers and all that.

I'm not too confident to be honest Jamie.

I think this New Zealand team are still quite a ways better than Ireland even though we've never had a sense of unknown quite like what we have going into this window with New Zealand which is remarkable to say because in 2022 we knew

what New Zealand were.

We knew what they were all about.

And yet there was a confidence that Ireland could win a game down there.

Obviously they won two and they won the series.

But since then, as you said, they've won the next three games.

They've gotten more and more comfortable since then.

They should have won by more in Chicago.

Yes, there was a red card to Tyke Burr and I completely agree it changes the game.

But at the same time, Ireland scored 10 points in that game.

And this has been a trend for Ireland is that in huge games, they have not been able to apply any real scoreboard pressure.

They played France this year.