Fiona Hayes

congratulations fiona on that gig as well very very best look uh for the summer ahead um look we it's a massive game for munster make no bones about that knockout rugby is on our doorstep cannot wait to watch this game at the weekend i'm going to get to that in a bit and go through all the uh the players who are missing and all i suppose the permutations are facing such a strong south african team but first fiona uh we've got a couple of messages into us

can move forward and there can be some positivity around the squad for next year that's what there's some positivity around the squad after this weekend as well and that huge huge urc game um taking place in south africa some of the texts there from dave or from keen they use the phrase um free hit and bonus territory is that how you're seeing this weekend's game

Let's look at the players that Munster are missing this weekend.

Jack Crowley, as we just mentioned there.

An obscure leg injury is what Clayton McMillan described it as.

I'm not sure exactly what that means.

Tyburn's going to miss out.

Edwin Adogbo, Michael Milne, Jan Klein, Olly Yeager, Tom Farrell, Calvin Nash.

That is a lot of names to be missing this weekend.

Alan Quinlan.

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You know, there's changes there and you expect maybe you're training with the people all week, the starting team will go in there.

There was changes there

last minute and there was three of them that can really rock a team um obviously your 10 is pivotal but i just felt like even when the chips were down fair play to the coaching staff i suppose that got them ready because when they came out at kickoff they were so so focused and there was some lovely tries uh tries scored but yeah the composure near the end you

You just felt like they were confident in their ability, everything they'd worked on during the week, I suppose defensively, especially is what they would have looked at, because that just wasn't good enough against Connacht.

So you could see the areas they worked at, but they also had that want, that aggression, and...