Cian Tracey

yeah Mads has been very good in this podcast about that he's talked about maybe using a different tee and things like that it's the errors the missed kicks were compounded when you see Cass replacement kicker coming on and kicking two from either touchline and

he left the shot clock timeout on one of the kicks and one of the kicks that he made, he just made the kick.

Now, kickers obviously have their routine and sometimes they're actually not helped anymore by when players like Craig Casey celebrating the try and slamming the ball down and it goes away.

Players need to start realising that when they score tries, they have to get the ball back to the kicker because kickers have such, like almost to the second that their routine and the way he kind of

brush one wide he's just not striking the ball well like I said Joe I've been covering Jack Crowley since his underage days and like he just he seems like the weight of the world is on his shoulders at times and I think that's down to the responsibility that he takes for this is his Munster team and that's all well and good but it's being borne out in frustration like I never remember Jack Crowley being as cranky with the referees as he is now and I'm wondering like is he trying to be someone he's not is he trying to be

you know, this big kind of alpha, which I think he is anyway.

I don't think he needs to try and do that, but I think he's getting in his own head and there's times where you'd love if he just kind of relaxed and did what he does best because he was trying, particularly when he was moved from 10 last weekend, he was trying to do too much and he was forgetting about his primary role in terms of facilitating those around them and the shape of Munster's attack just fell to pieces.

But just to go back to the kicking,

You have to nail the basics as a 10.

And we talked about France.

If you had a kick to win the game in Paris at the moment, would Andy Farrell be trusting Jack Crowley to nail it?

I'm not sure he would.

And I've covered a lot of those games which have been over there.

That was not the Cass team of old.

And I wonder, did that play into the mindset of the players that, look, they're going to be really forward orientated.

Let's play a fast, like get the ball to the width, which they were trying to do.

But they didn't realise, or sorry, they must have realised because they would have done their pre-game analysis.

they had serious athletes in the back line.

The Fijian who was playing 13, Amidang on the wing, they were unbelievable athletes.