Rory O'Connor
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Easter Sunday is like... Look, a lot of people in Dublin get out of Dublin for Easter as well.
They'll probably actually get a bigger crowd in Faro if they played it over there.
There's a... Look, Easter Sun is a difficult one, but it's Edinburgh.
Edinburgh are not a great team.
They have a good scrum, but they're not a great team.
They actually seem to actively try and get out of the Champions Cup and somehow engineered a way into the last 16.
I think Munster's expensive, if my memory serves me right.
It's Harlequins or Sale, I think, at home in the quarterfinal the following week.
Again, I think that'll be a struggle to sell tickets, but it's another manageable fixture.
Then you get another two rounds of URC to build your team, build your cohesion.
I'd love that.
like a lot of Irish people will travel over for that a lot of Leinster fans will travel over for that as well look like Leinster have the potential they're still the only Irish team standing in the Champions Cup they're Ireland's best chance of winning the URC by a long distance when you put all their best players on the pitch they still have effectively an Ireland team but there there are massive question marks going into this period I think it's
if they go out in both fronts it's been a tough year getting so many players called up to the Lions has had an effect on them but if they don't get over the line at either competition this year put so much pressure on Leo Cullen and Niamh Aber with all expectations that he's going back to South Africa for the World Cup do they pull the trigger and try and make a change largely these things are done way earlier if you're going to do it but it then bleeds into next year and it becomes longer and longer I think if they go out in both competitions this year there has to be some changes I think
Yeah, but I'm not sure there's a will there to do it, but it's a sticky period for them and they're under a huge amount of pressure because they didn't... What they put out on Saturday is what they're going to be putting out there in big games.
They're nowhere near it.
And you'd expect them to get better, but is the game plan there?
Does it suit the players?
Prendergast confidence, Harry Byrne has been out recently.
Who starts 10?
to Edinburgh games so Gibson Park obviously nailed on who starts 10 Harry Byrne I think at this stage yeah Harry Byrne I think as well Osborne 12 Ringrose 13 CiarΓ‘n Frawley should be in that conversation he's playing really well not necessarily a 10 but he's in form and you know I think he probably gets the 22 jersey oh you're jumping ahead Rudd sorry we're jumping ahead Osborne Ringrose 13