Donncha O'Callaghan

it needs absolute honesty and it needs loads of care.

And I know that sounds really shitty, but Rob cared about the general group getting better, saw this as a flaw, knew that it was an underlying issue with other people and fucking just said it.

From my memory, it was, you know, you break off with, in small groups, with kind of these little whiteboards and you come back and he presented it.

And to be fair, it wasn't up on the board from what I remember, but he elaborated the point and said it.

And what I remember is I think a few of the Munster senior players went, hold on.

You know what I mean?

They could hear the honest appraisal, the honesty from him.

And they were like...

nearly fucking flesh that out a bit more.

You know what I mean?

Keep going.

And I do remember, like genuinely, the Munster lads, I felt in the room wanted to hear it because maybe it is true.

Maybe we had a blind spot on it and didn't spot it.

You know what I mean?

But he genuinely was telling...

It was also the likes of Raj.

It was also the likes of Paulie.

Kind of going, listen, man, we're now hearing you.

You know what I mean?

And you're saying something that can help us all here.