Jake White

And that is the thing.

I suppose that's changed.

In the old days, the players would have said, let's stay for two weeks.

Now, if you ask certain players, they'd want to go home, spend time with their families, because the fact is that literally when they finish the final,

They've got a two, three-month window of test rugby where they're not going to be able to either.

So it is a dynamic that's changed.

And I said that I would have done that.

I would have recommended that.

But I'm not sure, Bernard, that I would have got it over the line because, as I said, with the amount of spring box to box I've got this year and the ones that are in the camp and probably will be involved, maybe that dynamic is a little bit different to what it was a couple of years back when no one was involved.

I must say, I don't really know why they did it, Neil.

I mean, I'll tell you why I say that.

Because, I mean, two weeks sounds, you know, you have two weeks to prepare, which is a good thing.

But, you know, at the end of the day, they were in Europe, they could have played.

I suppose what they didn't want was a situation what happened in year one.

We had to spend an extra night in Dublin waiting to see if Stormers beat Ulster.

And if Stormers won, we had to come home.

And if Ulster won, we'd have to go to Ulster.

So...

I suppose what they wanted to do from a preparation point of view, URC, to make it the showpiece they wanted to make it for final.

They need more time than one week to find out where the final is, get their branding up, make sure that it's the final.