Rory O'Connor

we want all four of the provinces in the Champions Cup competing for the URC it's it's very difficult in this era to have that but the fact that Ulster and Connacht are making Ulster more you know all season and Connacht more recently are starting to make real strides and we saw the contribution they both made to the the national team and like Munster did as well with Jeremy Lockman started three games and Crowley really impressing towards the end of that Six Nations but like it's it will be far better like David Humphries will be worried about the situation that he's looking at

I'm sure there'll be encounters in Land's End Road will be worried as well.

This is not good for Irish Rugby.

It's not good for Munster.

Once again, they're looking to the players in South Africa to come up with a solution to keep the show on the road so that the rest of the organisation can stay afloat.

But they need to look at everything.

They need to look at what's their travelling party, non-playing travelling party down in South Africa.

How much are they spending on that side of things as well?

All of these things need to be on the table.

There can be no secret cows.

I think there are obligations around kind of these things, but it's more kind of, you know, I just think everything needs to be on the table.

I mean, does he need to be flying back?

Like, you know, if he knew there was a meeting this week, does he need to be over the first week?

These are all questions that they need to be ruthless and asking when it comes down to it.

Because if people are going to lose their jobs, that's going to be really tough to take.

We give our all for clubs in every corner of this island.

Yeah, it's not just as simple as Bundy being back, but it's a huge piece of the jigsaw.

If you can get a player who was only two, well, three years ago nominated for World Player of the Year and was very close to getting it and was one of the best players at a World Cup, has been one of the consistently best international centres in the world for nearly a decade now.

but at times I think it's fair to say I think Connacht fans would feel that he hasn't been as good for them as he has been for Ireland especially as he's got older it's probably harder to do there's been times where Andy Fenn just left him out entirely there's been a bit of kind of discontent behind the scenes I think with some of his training and some of his performances and

And he's had to ride that out and he's always been picked for Ireland.