Bundee Aki

You know, that's, and that's just the way it is, you know? Like, we ...

We'll give you, we'll give you a location or a more zone Bundee Aki, you know? It's just, that's just the way it is.

Like, you know, you came ...

Y- your rugby education's here.

And that's tends to be where I draw the line at that type of thing because that, of that whole thing of, like, players don't ma- always make it into every academy, but they do, when they do progress to another one, that's where they're getting that rugby education from, so they, the, they are de facto that province's developed player, for want of a better term.

Um-

Yeah, and I think you can always point to examples of players that, like, come from outside the system, right? Like you mentioned Bundee Aki there, obviously, like, Mack Hansen, two big players from, for Connacht.

Yeah.

yeah great carrying everybody just taking the ball up protecting the ball very well in contact here comes the kick

kick downfield and it's a bit loose and it's going to bounce into the Connacht 22 and here's Matt Healy there's plenty of time to take this possession and kick it back at Leinster you wouldn't see Matt Healy kicking all that often like that but he's just playing it safe Johnny Sexton gratefully cleans that up and launches a kick at Tiernan O'Halloran the chase wasn't great Sexton wanting more from his players and here is McGinty now counterattacking outside his own 22 he's hard to bring down McGinty and Leinster are realising that now midway between the 22m line and the 10m line in the Connacht half Muldoon here goes Bundy Aki Aki has a lot of time to think about what he wants to do with this and he decides to take it in and it takes 2-3 Leinster players to take him down shy of the 10m line Marmion probes to see if there's something there Alton Delan with the big carry smashes in but he doesn't have a lot of support Leinster on their feet and they've turned it over that's brilliant I think that was Heaslip that was outstanding

very very clever play by Heaslip there just getting over the ball and picking ripping it off Alton Delan

Redden with the ball Leinster inside the conic half smart play from Leinster big tackle from Aki in there It was smart from Leinster just to deal with all that.

And it can just come against him at times, so they're obviously concerned.

He seems to be holding the shoulder, they're just... checking him out I'd say he'll continue but they'll be keeping an eye on him Rob

Ali Muldani talking to John Muldoon the Connacht bats in a conference I see Robbie Henshaw and Tiernan O'Halloran and Nia Diolchian and Bundy Aki talking Marmion comes over to him Connacht need to talk their way through this mentally they need to prepare for this Leinster attack it's going to come strong and hard at them surely 15 metres in from the touchline 5 metres outside the 22 in the Connacht half Leinster have a scrum 31st minute of the first half and Connacht lead 15-0

Yeah, they just, they have a scrum put in now.

Sias Ebersohn is great.

Bundee Aki has had some great years.

All of them still when they face Damian de Allende have come off second best nine times out of ten or eight times out of ten.

And I think that's just a testament to him.