Eddie O'Sullivan

Or I think Rory's the point here that when you get yourself in a bit of a hole like that, things are going against you.

does the team's head drop a bit and they lose confidence so it's almost like what's done is done is can they rescue their position and build off the good things they've created in the last two weeks that would be my I'd be more optimistic about it um

I thought they were pretty honest after.

There were small things that cost them at the end of the day, small mistakes, you know.

But at the end of the day, if you're judging outcomes, it's gloomy.

But for me, it's a bit more upbeat, I have to say.

I thought, you know, they've played some really good rugby.

They look like they're comforting their skins.

But at the end of the day, you've got to get the results.

And back at that, it's pretty gloomy in Munster this weekend, all right.

But that was my point.

I thought the Toulon defence was excellent.

And the reason I felt that Toulon, the defence was excellent, they would have talked all week about that.

That was their starting point.

If the defence was poor in Toulon on a sunny day in the south of France and they were slipping off tackles, they were going to get eaten alive.

So the level of urgency, work rate, commitment, and the danger with that actually, if you're trying to get under the hood a bit on it, is if you put a huge defensive set in like they did in Toulon, and then you come home and you're kind of,

say, well, that's that box ticked.

And this week would have been about something else.

And always, you know, you slip back in that area.

And certainly the defence was nothing like it in terms of intensity.