Luke Fitzgerald
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I had a really good chat with him anyway in the airport on Sunday morning.
And after he headed off to go back to Bordeaux to continue the celebrations, this Leinster fan came up to me and just went, please tell me you were convincing him to come back to Leinster now.
I know he's contracted till 2029, but please tell me that's what that long chat you were having him was about.
And I think that that Leinster fan would speak for a lot of Leinster fans.
I think a guy...
He's contracted till 29, but I think a guy like Noel McNamara would be a really good fit, if not now, then in the next couple of years.
Will, can I just make one more quick point just on the coaches?
It is worth saying that they are under contract for next season.
So the idea, like as in, it could cost money if they were to go down the extreme route.
That's an important one.
I also think,
We all know that after the World Cup next year, there's going to be a huge amount of shaking up across the board in terms of coaches, but a lot more people will be available.
I do take the point of the ones that you're mentioning now.
Great coaches now.
But I think one name to...
keep your eye on as well is the potential of Ronan O'Gara to come back as well because if Andy Farrell genuinely if Andy Farrell signs a contract extension with Ireland like that is the gig that Ronan O'Gara wants but if the Leinster job was to become available after 27 at which stage O'Gara's contract is up in La Rochelle I don't think it's beyond the realms of possibility that we could see Raj coaching Leinster genuinely like the damned United when Brian Clough goes to Leeds that's what I'm expecting you know
Yeah, I'm going to start with the conditions again because they were awful.
It was far worse than it was for the Leinster game.
Anyone, any of our listeners or viewers who was at the 2019 World Cup pool game between Ireland and Russia in Kobe when it was in an enclosed stadium, if anyone was there and will remember that it was unbearably sticky and hot.
It was very much like that.