Ruaidhri O'Connor

I guess I may be burned by backing Leinster over and over again.

I think I backed them at the start of the season.

But you've got to go on what you're seeing.

I don't think Toulon are a great team.

I think they're a good team.

But I think they have the tools to hurt Leinster.

I think Leinster have an inexperienced 10 at this level.

They're missing too much firepower up front, especially off their bench.

They're making too many mistakes.

Their discipline will be something I would worry about.

There's too many flaws in their game, I think, to win the competition.

They can get past this, but I'm leaning towards Toulon at this stage.

Yeah, when the information, sorry, when the news is confirmed, we will get our reason.

But, you know, we have to obviously do a bit of digging to get further on it.

I do know there has been huge commercial pressure, like that commercial advisory board that stepped down

or sorry, that some of the members stepped down in the wake of the decision, the kind of secondary story that we had, they would have been influential figures in a commercial point.

Obviously, they wouldn't have held that role.

They would be linked to investment into the province.

Their job was to liaise with sponsors.

munster's contract the bank of ireland their their marquee sponsor on their jersey that's up for renewal at the moment i'm sure that was a factor in all of this as well uh the backlash they must have underestimated the backlash they were going to get to it i just can't look this was all very this is the most avoidable crisis in the