Ruairi O'Hagan

Um, you know, obviously if they're consulted and you're in a room and you're making a decision about your assistant coach and your recruitment, um,

one person in that room puts their hand up and says, look, again, this is not impersonal to the person involved, but there was a situation, it was an accusation,

Let's not go there.

Let's just not go there because we've had a few situations in Irish rugby and we don't need to go there.

We need to galvanise people.

We need to bring the fans on board.

We don't need to do this situation.

Let's get somebody else.

The kind of... The situation around that decision has obviously been... And I respect...

Clayton McMillan, and I respect his opinion in a sense of he went on the media last week and said he respects people's opinions.

My opinion is I understand where he's coming from.

He's a former police chief in New Zealand.

He's stood by this guy.

And we can't say whether that's right or wrong.

You just have to admire loyalty sometimes.

But it's a very precarious position, and it's a very, very...

dangerous situation here but he stood by him spoke about him he's worked with him before and he wanted him so the problem we have here is the disconnect at board level that there's a group of people that want to coach and decide he's coming and then there's a

group of other people who weren't consulted about this and it's caused problems and we can't hide away from the fact there's issues and problems there whether Roger Randall has signed a contract whether he's coming he's not coming at the moment we've heard nothing to say that he's not coming but there's people not happy about it and um

it's just the last thing the team could have done with last week.

Now they went to Benetton and they produced probably one of their, not most flamboyant performances, but certainly one of the most consistent performances around, you know, energy, aggression, and just being kind of ruthless in their whole approach, which was a very timely win and a very needy win because the situation we've highlighted last week about