Ian Madigan

Yeah, it's a funny one.

I think part of the French though will really enjoy it, you know, and he's the pantomime villain and that's great for rugby.

You know, we're all talking about him leading into this and yeah, look, it's great for the game.

What I will say about him is he backs it up

Even leading into the weekend, that was a tough game they had against Saracens and a lot of publicity around the match room or matchmaker as you call the post game.

Was he going to be able to back it up?

And he just strikes me as the kind of guy that the more cameras that are on him, the more eyeballs that are on him, the more that he can find within himself, which is really impressive.

It can be in a team environment, but at the same time, you know, pave your own way.

You know, you've got to, if these opportunities are presenting to yourself and you've got the right management team around you to get you on the likes of Graham Norton, why not?

You know, and he's got the personality to back it up.

He'll relish being on a show like that and entertaining people and

That's what he craves.

I think he, I've seen some footage of him on social media and he just looks like he's really enjoying it.

And you compare that to, you know, some other younger players coming through that, you know, they should be living out their dreams, but it doesn't look like it's that enjoyable for them.

He is loving every moment of it and that's great to see.

the superstar in France like Toulouse will move their schedule around to ensure that he can do the Louis Vuitton shoots and what not and part of that is that they knew it was going to be hard to keep him and by allowing him to do the commercial stuff off the field they're keeping him happy and I think the players that he's playing with are just happy that he's still in their team and they'll support him with it as well

I think they're number one contenders out of England and full credit to the English.

All seven of their teams have made the last 16, which is a great achievement.

When we were talking there earlier about the foundation of their game, excellent scrum, excellent line-out and Maul,

um really good halfbacks that have a brilliant kicking game they're excellent early like you're going right well you're going to be in a good spot to win a lot of games with that alone but then you throw into you know the quality of their backline attack when they get that go forward ball finn russell is in probably the form of his life i'd say and playing really good rugby um