Rory O'Connor

it's amazing to watch the the um the green jersey emerge in that final 100 meters like what an achievement you know it's it's not stood the test of time and i'm called then he wrote a an unbelievable piece i think kind of giving its context and kind of what it meant and what the 1500 would have meant in that time in melbourne it was uh yeah it's sad but you know a life written uh greatly lived and and you know 91 was a great age to get to as well

It's more blurred than that, Joe.

There's professionals playing in the AIL.

They are.

Yeah, they would be.

But they are rubbing shoulders with players who could be professionals in six months' time because they're playing for contracts.

It's an elite level.

There should be greater, certainly in 1A, 1B, there should be a greater degree of testing.

I think there's Connacht players playing in 2A as well.

So that number was so straight.

Well, firstly, the confusion between Sport Ireland, the RFU had no confusion.

They said this is a Sport Ireland issue.

But the fact that a Sport Ireland official didn't know or wasn't aware that they had responsibility, that jumps off the page to me.

The work Chris Ben did was, is really admirable in that front.

You know, all Wesley, part of Paul's story was all Wesley had signed a player called Christian Jensen from Australia who has just come off the back.

They'd actually signed him or registered him before he finished his four-year doping ban.

He's a former Australian Sevens international.

There's academy players in each of these dressing rooms.

This is where the next generation, the early under-20s, are playing.

This is where players who aspire to being professionals, this is where they go when they don't get a contract.