Rory O'Connor

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.

So there's like, you know, I can always move back, but that's what he's offering.

To jump back to defence, sorry, I've gone off topic.

The defence has been really, really, like that's been the Achilles heel for Connacht last year.

I think that Ospreys game where they scored, what was it, 41 points and lost by Leinster.

albeit the performance at home and the opening of the stand at the Dexcom Stadium has been big for them as well because they did play all their home games in front of a building site they were good in that home game they could have won that home game potentially that was a different game than some of the other ones if you talk about sliding doors moments in a season Munster Stormers I think was a big one for them Connacht Leinster that bit of vibrancy that they got from the new stand

the going toe-to-toe with Leinster in a bit of a battle I know Bundy took it too far in the aftermath with the referee but there was signs of life within that performance and like they've got good players and they seem to have I know Mac like you know they could do with Mac Hanson and Shane Bolton being fit and they're not going to be so that's that's a big blow but they've got a lot of their best players on the pitch as well