Fiona Hayes
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If you want to play at that level, come Six Nations time, you need to be playing those high intense games.
The Celtic Challenge was much better this year and we know a lot of the girls were playing in that.
But I think for Scott as well, where it's key for him is that
those girls that went to the PWR, he doesn't really have control over what's happening or their minutes or what they're playing over there.
So I'd say there's a little bit of frustration around that because then if they come back to Ireland injured or if things happen, whereas if they have a team, the girls are playing in that, they are a few will have full control on everything they're doing.
Like the time Johnny went to France, say, and he was playing week in, week out, you know, and probably looking at tired players.
I do.
With the PWR, they're contracted, they're paid, the RFU have no interference.
So I would imagine with the amount of players going over, that they're thinking ahead and saying, look, we've got to get something at this high level.
The players want to play week in, week out at this high level.
But if we can get a team or a couple of teams involved, then they will have control on that as well.
I was going through, I was clipping some stuff just myself to look at and I think it was about 11 and a half minutes, it was before the first Connacht try and there was an edge attack from Connacht maybe 17 metres out and...
Connacht set up perfectly, did a winger, a lovely pod forward, a playmaker in the back and Munster actually had five defenders and Hayley was still in the backfield and they just went to that edge and that defence literally came up two steps.
So instead of bringing him past the 22, Munster ended up another two steps back from a simple edge attack.
I was like, what is going on?
The line speed was completely gone.
The difference between Connacht was they were so, so hungry in everything they do.
There was a similar one on the other end with Connacht and they had pushed Munster back six, seven metres.
So I feel like the likes of Crowley, Byrne,
You talked about Jack.