Eoin Sheahan

You had the Professional Games Committee losing three of their members over this.

Billy Holland, Cillian Keane and Mick O'Driscoll resigned from their positions.

And then you also had the Commercial Advisory Group, which is a voluntary body.

You had resignations from that as well over the past couple of weeks.

So...

There was massive fallout to this that we can point to.

People might question, where do Munster now go to find a new attack coach?

I think the more important question is how Munster managed to find themselves in this position in the first place.

The optics of this were always terrible and Munster was in a pretty...

pretty bad position off the pitch anyway going into this story given the redundancies news that we've seen in the last month.

The on-field matters have not helped things to be quite honest either and there are real questions now towards the hierarchy and those are the very top of Munster Rugby regarding their decision making process.

Do you agree it is?

Well, so when this story first broke, we were in touch with the IRFU on this and their response, and I believe this is the same to all journalists working on this story, was that this was a question for Munster Rugby.

Now, we don't know what has happened in the last two weeks.

We don't know how involved the IRFU has been in cancelling this project, but you'd have to think that somebody in the top brass looked at what was happening in one of their provinces and

and maybe said, listen, I'm not sure if this is a great look.

I don't know that, but I wouldn't be particularly surprised if they are, if you have been involved here.

Now, Munster should have smelled the roses here a little bit as well when they see the likes of Billy Holland, Cillian Keane and Mick O'Driscoll depart their roles when you have, like,

good Munster people leaving their jobs in the middle of all of this that's a bit of a red flag that something might not have gone down too well so we don't know exactly what's happened here but the lack of an apology from the head coach is certainly notable I'd say Clayton McMillan is he definitely would have stood over this appointment and I would suggest he would have been central to the appointment in the first place so I'm not quite sure what he is thinking since the appointment has been called off

100%, I think the stakes are so high.