Dave Hanratty

When you say, I wonder, did Andy Farrell maybe call Leo Cullen and say, can you shove Sam in?

Is that your understanding as to how this works at times?

And is Leo Cullen entitled to say, Andy, I love you, which is why it's so hard to ignore you.

I'm not doing what you say.

Or is there an implicit understanding that if Andy Farrell calls and asks for something, you really try and accommodate?

Because before you'd mentioned the potential, say, of an Andy Farrell phone call, I just thought it looked like a fairly clear, you did not play well enough in these two big Champions Cup games, therefore you're out, as opposed to Andy Farrell calling.

It's all, Rudd, incredibly reactive.

You're either starting, you're not in the squad, you're jettisoned for months on end, you're back in.

What's your read on how Farrell's going to play the summer?

On form, yeah.

Yeah.

I suppose Ahmad thought as well when you consider how to kind of illustrate how badly the season unfolded from the 10 point of view is...

And other people have made the point, but it's worth re-emphasizing, Leinster found themselves in the most important game of their season, the Champions Cup final.

And for what, the guts of 40 minutes, they had a number 10 who really hadn't played there all year.

Something's gone wrong there.

There's no two ways about it.

Yeah.

And look, to be fair, we're in the cheap seats.

It is worth just saying, it's hard.

You know, like, I'm sure Andy Farrell, Owen Farrell's dad, and Johnny Sexton feel they can judge a 10.