Will Stoddard

It just shows the

his importance still as we go into a World Cup year shortly and be able to see how he figures.

Just want to mention this before you finish on Munster, like I mentioned kind of my five reasons to be positive from a comic perspective.

Like if you look at the same things and go from a Munster perspective, they're all pretty alarming bar one.

Like, so I said the second season of the Lancaster going to Macmillan second season, but he has to get a new forwards coach and a new attack coach.

And obviously there's been all sorts of off-field problems.

off-heaval all season notwithstanding that the on-pitch product after the strong start really petered out so number two was key players back from injury ideally you'd like to see Crowley and Burnback and a couple of the guys who weren't playing hopefully come to start next season they will be in situ but on the young talent piece like you know

Billy Bowen, Sam Miller, Darren Murray.

Like, Munster don't seem to have the same amount of quality.

I know, you know, Adogbo, Brian Gleeson, they've been guys who've been earmarked, but they've been injured a lot as well.

They haven't really been able to stay fit, so we haven't even got to see the best of them.

Like, the new signings, the only two guys announced at the moment is Marnus van der Merwe, a hooker from South Africa who's coming from the Scots, and Jack Ainger who's

kind of down the depth chart at Connacht and then I had full season with Connacht's new stand but you know Tommen Park hasn't been a full for very many games over the last couple of seasons so I would be quite concerned Jonathan I don't know what you think about once you're heading into next year there doesn't seem to be many reasons to be positive at this juncture

Yeah, that Croke Park game was mid-October.

So what's that?

November, January, February, March, April, May.

Seven months ago?

That's crazy.

I know, to be fair, one underrated win was Benetton away with a 45-15 three or four weeks ago when Benetton then went and beat Leinster the following weekend.

That was a strong Benetton team and they have a lot of game breakers like Tommaso Menoncello to name one.