Jonathan Bradley

And that was under a whole different system where he could still be picked.

So, you know, Zeebo went, Donovan Ryan, Aldon Delan, but they weren't necessarily nailed on starters in the way that James Lowe is.

Definitely.

Well, I think he has been for Andy Farrell.

Yes, maybe you're right, but I completely understand why Leinster don't want to pay the money.

I can't understand why somebody at the IRB

isn't saying our national head coach, who realistically, in terms of reputation, remains the most important person in Irish rugby, to my mind, at the minute.

Just makes an executive decision to go, guys, find an extra hundred for me.

No, but I think it's important though.

So much talk will be about the World Cup over the next...

14, 15 months.

And Ireland have a shallow player pool and they've just lost a player for a contractual thing.

And it's like, I understand all this sort of talk about how is he going to age?

He's a winger, blah, blah, blah.

But we're only talking about another 13 months.

He is, in Andy Farrell's mind, an Ireland starter now.

So you would bet on him being an Ireland starter in Andy Farrell's eyes in a year's time.

I mean, he was asked on Thursday, so before the game, before this presser, he was asked, you know, do you still feel like you're the right man to guide Leinster?

And he said that he does.

So we know that he feels that.