Gordon D’Arcy

They have to find a way of getting their best version of it.

They were outgunned up front, two yellow cards in the opening couple of minutes, put them behind.

But when they cut open Montpellier, they look really good with the ball in hand.

And they're playing a game of, you know, we're here talking about, say, you know, Leinster trying to embrace a game that's not necessarily natural for them.

Connacht, I think, are playing a game that's really natural for them.

the shortcomings in their tight five are very obvious and stark to see against a better resourced team like Montpellier but when they yeah when they played I thought oh you know a little bit more luck or you know one or two more passes go to hand they could have been closer but ultimately I wouldn't say they're walking away from that game going oh

Oh, that's when we left behind.

I'd say they knew they were outgunned, outpowered, but broadly, I would think a coach like Lancaster would have enough positives from that game to go, now we concentrate on the URC.

What we don't have in the women's game is, as you say, they haven't played for six months, some of them, whereas we see all the men's players week in, week out, and we have an idea of form coming in.

We have an idea of the November series.

We have a very good expectation or parameter of form, where actually the women's Six Nations, it's too small a sample size, one game, to say yes or no, or improvement, not improvement.

You have to take it off the back of the full tournament.

This is pretty well documented, though, on women's sports in that it is a different environment because it is less about a day on the sauce.

It is actually more about the...

entertainment value the events the whole the pageantry all that kind of stuff because it is more supported by females but there is a lot of things that suggest that you know the women's sport are supported slightly different differently as well the crowd definitely skews younger because the tickets are a lot more accessible that's another big part of it as well

Yeah, and then everything we say is about younger people, they drink less, they go along, and it is actually more about, but I think as long as people are at the games, I think that's the main point.

Oh, yeah, because this is the...

I had to get this explained to me recently.

So there's a lot of kids who would be in their sixth year in school, but we were playing under-19s, weren't they?

But the schools, because the Irish schools now are still under 18, isn't it?