Rúaidhrí O'Connor

And I think they're... Like, Abrahams appears to be leaving.

So they may be reinvesting in the tight five.

John Klein is obviously going.

So...

It sounds like Alton Milan's on the way in.

He's not like for like.

There's moving parts there, and I think they'll have to be really ruthless in their recruitment.

They don't have the budget to get them a lot of power, but if they're smart, they can get good players.

If you're just a little bit off, you can run your lines, you can put together the moves, but when it comes to the one-on-ones,

I don't know.

I mean, maybe I'm grasping, but I think they just saw Kast and said, oh, we've seen Kast before.

And the Kast, it turned up, well, I wouldn't fancy them in the knockouts.

I think Northampton have them at home.

That's going to be some game.

I guess it forces Macmillan into a position.

He's in year one.

Richie Murphy's turning up trees this year, but last year was really awful for Ulster.

Pat Lamb took three years and it was sticky in that first and second year.

Macmillan now has cause to be really ruthless in his selection, really ruthless with recruitment and retention, to interrogate his coaching ticket, which he brought with his own strength and conditioning expert and a manager, but he's inherited the rest of the

the coaching team so will he look at that and go okay I need something different I need to bring someone over from New Zealand who I'm used to working with and it gives him a bit of a year zero effect the issue I suppose is that his players went off to Ireland camp in November in unbelievable form and came back and it hasn't been the same since and I think Crowley in particular has