Rory O'Connor

And the big thing is, you mentioned their scorelines.

They're not conceding points.

Yeah, I mean, I think they made 14 dominant tackles at the weekend against Ulster and that was spread across nine players, which is, you know, Billy Bohan led the way.

Like he's a 21 year old, but he's come out of the Ireland camp and he's going, I've got a chance to be an international here.

He's made hay in that loose head kind of,

vacuum that's been left by all those injuries and he's suddenly a player of national interest and he's got confidence on the back of that he was playing well before he went in there but he looks like a real a real find for Connacht like they've gone into the Leinster Academy in the last couple of years and and kind of gone after players that Leinster either were kind of dilly-dallying over or even players that Leinster wanted to keep but they offered them full either full contracts or or kind of at

Absolutely.

And I think Eric Elwood would have attended a lot of Leinster schools games last year.

I'm sure he's doing it again this year.

He's looking at players that fit the mold for them.

Sorry, I've gone off the defensive topic, but I think Lancaster is huge in that.

Because firstly, you notice Connacht don't have the same, like they don't have 14 internationals sitting ahead of you in the pecking order.

Leinster are like three or four deep in some positions with just Ireland internationals.

So say you're a young hooker,

coming through the system in Leinster.

And you're looking at Gus McCarthy, Dan Sheehan, Ronan Kelleher, even John McKee ahead of you.

Stephen Smith is really highly rated by Ireland.

And you look at Connacht, where they do have good hookers, but you might think, well, I can go there.

I can work with Stuart Lancaster.

Leinster are still going to be there in five years.