Ruaidhri O'Connor

I think when they saw, God, here's our captain, the players are going to get this, this thing is just going to have a... Paul O'Connell did a commercial interview that was published in the Irish Times the weekend and was asked about it by Roisin Ingalls, who was not a sports journalist.

And I'm sure he was uncomfortable to be put in that position.

He said, I don't want to comment on this.

Yeah.

But I'm sure him being put in an uncomfortable position as a former captain and all-time great of Munster wouldn't have sat well with him.

And I guess people probably are realizing that if you are synonymous or associated with Munster, you are getting caught in this crossfire.

So I'm not saying that's the reason Randall is not coming.

But I think that, again...

Look, we worked together on that, you know, during that Grobbler story a long time ago when Munster were caught in the eyes of a national sports media controversy.

Nearly all the institutional memory has left that organisation.

The media team has changed.

The CEO is not the CEO who was there.

Koslow wasn't involved at the time.

There's, you know, team managers moved on.

I wonder just, was there just a lack of an appreciation of how big this could get?

I know there wasn't a PGB level,

you know I think that they could see this coming down the track but the within the operation to the rugby side of the operation plus Ian Costlow to Ian Flanagan to make this a three person decision and then present it as a fait accompli it's completely it's of their making and the RFU

although I struggle with the idea that they had no input into it at all, but they've washed their hands of it and said this was purely a Munster appointment.

It's clearly in the, the ball is in the court of those three figures who I think are all either under pressure or will be considering what they're going to do in the next while because I think they're,

They're all in a very uncomfortable position right now at the end of all, sorry, it's not the end of all this, at this point of this saga.