Rory O'Connor

The reason the URC is so much better now, the reason that there is no weekends off is because the South Africans have come in and made it really difficult.

But Ulster, Connacht and Leinster look like they're, even though Connacht are way behind, or not way behind, but behind Munster at the table, they all look in better form.

And Macmillan's job is to pull all this together and take that squad, which has still got a lot of good players in it, even though it's not as strong as it was, and get performances.

And what I think Munster fans will be really frustrated at the moment is, even though I don't think there's a championship winning team in there,

there's still a team that can go to the Sharks and put up a fight that's better than losing 45-0.

There's Scrum.

Look, the Sharks have a great Scrum.

The Scrum struggle that's been struggling all year.

The line-out, they thought they'd fixed it.

I'm sure Codling's absence has fed into...

The line-out performance, I thought the Sharks were really aggressive in their own 22, which I think teams are not expecting right now.

I think it's a tactical innovation that more teams should look at.

But when those two things go against you and you're also losing the physical battle and you're kind of going from side to side, you're going to struggle.

And it's really hard to pull that back together.

They've gone back to Cape Town this week

But, you know, this two week tour in South Africa, it really lives or dies near results.

You can feel great in Cape Town when you're feeling good about your rugby.

But if you're having massive introspective meetings and feeling sorry for yourself when you're thousands of miles from home, even if the weather is good, that can get on top of you.

And we saw last year, like this is this is the tour that led to Graham Ranchi losing his job because we never got it.

No one knows what happened in South Africa last year except for the people who were there because it's basically been a completely tight-lipped ship.