Rory O'Connor

And then they were 21-7 up at halftime against the Stormers.

21-6, a game I was at.

and they were playing all of the Mike Prendergast blueprint rugby.

Their attack was humming.

They played really well in that first half, and then John Dobson brought on his bomb squad.

And really, the slippage started then, and it's kind of fed into Bath.

Bath was a terrible away performance, and it's kind of carried on.

It's like the wind was taken from their sails at that point, and they struggled to get it back.

There's obviously...

stuff going on behind the scenes with Prendergast choosing to leave Munster to go to Bath having been overlooked for the head coaching position last year he's a big like he's their senior coach he got a promotion even though he didn't get the head coach's job last year so that doesn't speak well of the kind of you know he was given a promotion to become part of a key leader within the Macmillan set up and he's opted to go elsewhere so that's

I'm sure a personal decision, but he's leaving his home province to go work for Johan van Graan and with Finn Russell.

In fairness, a really good club over in England.

But again, it doesn't speak to a belief in the Munster project as such.

You have players getting told their contracts are not being renewed.

That's always a difficult time of year.

And I think Connacht got that stuff done really early and are coming out the other side of it, have galvanised things, whereas Munster still seem to be...

Not quite on the same page.

They seem to have lost a lot of belief across that period.

Their second string of players don't seem to be able to do it as well when the internationals are away.

I guess they're non-international players.