Ruaidhri O'Connor

Yeah, and now that he's not coming...

Look, I think it'll be very interesting to see how he handles it the next time he's speaking to the media, which will be next week ahead of the Connacht game.

I wouldn't rule it out.

I wouldn't rule it out.

I think that's definitely... We're speculating, obviously.

Absolutely, but I think it's not an implausible scenario that he will see that this has just gone too far for him, that he...

wanted to bring this man over.

He would probably think that the reaction has been overblown.

He doesn't feel backed.

And he may feel like that he needs to get back.

The job hasn't gone particularly well in the first place, albeit he's turned a little bit of a corner in recent weeks.

He may just feel that, look, this is not the right fit for me.

It hasn't worked out.

I'm going back to New Zealand where his stock will still remain quite high.

Yeah, and I think for Ian Costoloni and Flanagan, it's, you know, Clayton Macmillan's

possibly harsh to say he's passing through but he's not going to be Munster coach forever he's a New Zealander who's over here on a three year deal who wants to be the All Blacks coach this is essentially his overseas experience he's there to lend his expertise and win with Munster Munster get the benefit of that and he will eventually move on to another job as all career coaches do

Flanagan, I know he applied for the FAI job, but as the CEO, it's a more... Permanent's the wrong word, but he's the custodian of Munster Rugby right now.

Ian Costolo is the general manager.

He's supposed to be there to do the hiring and firing to make sure that the whole thing has continuity, to line up succession, all those sort of things.

I think they are in a tricky position as well because I think they've lost... There's a lot of confidence being drained out of the organisation.