Gerry Thornley

And then this has been an awful look for the province.

And when you see a figure like Ingus Hegarty, such a widely respected businessman,

president of Dell Ireland, president of just a limerick board and bread business band stepping down from their commercial board as well, or commercial committee.

It's just an awful look for the province.

It clearly left them feeling they had no other option but not to proceed to this appointment.

And of course, then you have Clayton McMillan, who was very much, he wanted Randall in and now Randall's not going to be there.

And how's

Clayton McMillan going to react to this it looks to me like an organisation that needs changes it needs changes and I wouldn't be surprised if this whole episode eventually prompts those changes

I don't think Leinster have fully recovered from the seismic effect of losing at home to Northampton.

That was altogether less excusable than losing, there's no disgrace in losing a final.

Least of all after extra time to a Toulouse side with the...

arguably the greatest player of all time, and regarded by many as the greatest club side of all time.

And Leinster came within a whisker of winning a game that they would not have been flattered to win.

They played that well that day.

And, you know, they've gone close twice against La Rochelle.

They've been unlucky a little bit, more than a little bit.

I thought they got very few decisions from Matthew Carling in the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium that day.

But losing at home to Northampton was a completely...

it was partly self-inflicted because they were just so loose and seemingly either overworked in training or mentally not aroused enough for what was coming at them and certainly not prepared for Northampton's threat of counter-attack and in transition and

Like we've talked many times, to concede the 39 points in the five drives they conceded and to have a tackling success rate of lower than 80% was just extraordinary defensive performance from Leinster.