Ruaidhri O'Connor

I think the games not being on, the run not being accessible on free-to-air television takes away from the overall greater interest.

I think Premier are doing a great job with the tournament, but previously...

There would be a free-to-air game in each round of the pool stages, the knockouts.

There would be, I think, at least one free-to-air game per round.

And in France, a lot of the big old French clashes have been shown free-to-air as well as being on a paid broadcaster.

And I think that does generate buzz.

The GA Championship is going on.

Joe, you do a general sports show with trying to...

Juggle whatever's going on.

It's across everywhere.

You know, everyone's struggling for airtime.

The GA season moving into the rugby season and the rugby season moving back into the GA season, certainly in Ireland, has led to just competing for airtime a little bit.

It has.

Yeah and Leinster are trying to sell season tickets at the moment as well so they're promoting that and I get the sense they're kind of prioritising selling those rather than EPCR tickets.

There's a lot going on but I put a message up on X during the sale game saying Leinster are going to have to have a look at this because they got 18,000 I think it was for it.

And I got a lot of responses, probably more responses than I've got to anything in a long time.

And it was a combination of price, a combination of the style of play and the direction under Leo Cullen and Jack Nienaber.

And a few other little bits and pieces that we've kind of touched on.

And I think there's a bit of disenfranchising, disenfranchisement of the fan base that Leinster need to look at.

Like they currently don't have a head of communications.