Jonathan Bradley

But to my mind, Munster made errors that they were never going to be able to win a game of that size if they made mistakes.

And it's just once the game got away from them, they were never getting it back in a second time.

So that try that you mentioned was an absolute killer because they had done so well to get themselves back in.

And then you just give up the easy points whenever you're having to work so hard to get yours.

like the games were not particularly engrossing let's be honest so they were dreadful there was so much made about you know the race for the eight and we spoke a while back about how we had really nine teams in this race for the eight there was only one that was going to miss out it ended up being ulster but it increasingly felt like whenever you did get to that quarterfinal stage that it wasn't so much a race for the eight to make the playoffs it was a race to make the champions cup because i don't think

It's no disrespect to Conor T. Ware in that game, but it didn't feel like those were live quarterfinals, really, to be honest.

It's more pronounced as well, obviously, when you have the cross-hemisphere travel.

So it hasn't worked out particularly well for the league.

I don't think that...

What would that be?

Five of their six knockout games before the final will involve two teams from different hemispheres playing each other.

And it's maybe no coincidence that the most competitive one, I know the Lions obviously stayed and they didn't make for a competitive game, but the most competitive game was the two teams from the same hemisphere playing each other.

No, I think especially whenever you put it into the context of, like, I fully appreciate there were Monster fans out there saying, you know, they finished fifth, they finished above Conor, above Ulster, and yet the narrative is that Conor and Ulster have had better seasons.

But I think whenever you set it against the context of all of their best rugby felt like it was played up to the point of October, you know, we're a long way detached away from that.

And there's been an awful lot of off-the-field stuff as well since then that has sort of changed the mood music

maybe be a wee bit higher on their young players than it sounds like you are if you can get them fit.

I've liked what I've seen from the likes of Gleeson, the likes of Adogbo, whenever they have been on the pitch.

I think they will be big players and Munster need those big players because we've seen how reliant they are in the likes of Crowley.

We've seen how reliant they are in the likes of Byrne.

And to add to your sort of