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Ruaidhri O'Connor

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2117 total appearances

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Indo Sport
Leinster v Toulon preview | Roger Randle Munster move collapses? | Ian Madigan & 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.

Indo Sport
Leinster v Toulon preview | Roger Randle Munster move collapses? | Ian Madigan & Ruaidhri O'Connor

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

Indo Sport
Leinster v Toulon preview | Roger Randle Munster move collapses? | Ian Madigan & Ruaidhri O'Connor

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

Indo Sport
Leinster v Toulon preview | Roger Randle Munster move collapses? | Ian Madigan & Ruaidhri O'Connor

Yeah.

Indo Sport
Leinster v Toulon preview | Roger Randle Munster move collapses? | Ian Madigan & Ruaidhri O'Connor

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.

Indo Sport
Leinster v Toulon preview | Roger Randle Munster move collapses? | Ian Madigan & Ruaidhri O'Connor

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

Indo Sport
Leinster v Toulon preview | Roger Randle Munster move collapses? | Ian Madigan & Ruaidhri O'Connor

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

Indo Sport
Leinster v Toulon preview | Roger Randle Munster move collapses? | Ian Madigan & Ruaidhri O'Connor

But I think that, again...

Indo Sport
Leinster v Toulon preview | Roger Randle Munster move collapses? | Ian Madigan & Ruaidhri O'Connor

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.

Indo Sport
Leinster v Toulon preview | Roger Randle Munster move collapses? | Ian Madigan & Ruaidhri O'Connor

Nearly all the institutional memory has left that organisation.

Indo Sport
Leinster v Toulon preview | Roger Randle Munster move collapses? | Ian Madigan & Ruaidhri O'Connor

The media team has changed.

Indo Sport
Leinster v Toulon preview | Roger Randle Munster move collapses? | Ian Madigan & Ruaidhri O'Connor

The CEO is not the CEO who was there.

Indo Sport
Leinster v Toulon preview | Roger Randle Munster move collapses? | Ian Madigan & Ruaidhri O'Connor

Koslow wasn't involved at the time.

Indo Sport
Leinster v Toulon preview | Roger Randle Munster move collapses? | Ian Madigan & Ruaidhri O'Connor

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

Indo Sport
Leinster v Toulon preview | Roger Randle Munster move collapses? | Ian Madigan & Ruaidhri O'Connor

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

Indo Sport
Leinster v Toulon preview | Roger Randle Munster move collapses? | Ian Madigan & Ruaidhri O'Connor

I know there wasn't a PGB level,

Indo Sport
Leinster v Toulon preview | Roger Randle Munster move collapses? | Ian Madigan & Ruaidhri O'Connor

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

Indo Sport
Leinster v Toulon preview | Roger Randle Munster move collapses? | Ian Madigan & Ruaidhri O'Connor

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.

Indo Sport
Leinster v Toulon preview | Roger Randle Munster move collapses? | Ian Madigan & Ruaidhri O'Connor

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,

Indo Sport
Leinster v Toulon preview | Roger Randle Munster move collapses? | Ian Madigan & Ruaidhri O'Connor

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.