Clayton McMillan

Some of the signings haven't been great.

The office of the Roger Randall thing over the summer where Clayton McMillan wanted to bring in a former assistant coach of his from the Chiefs.

A historical rape allegation then kind of was brought back into the public domain and very quickly that Roger Randall appointment was nixed.

There is a review that apparently is going to be published.

Then he'll get someone new.

So, yeah, it's like another kind of chapter in Munster's recent history of kind of off-field mismanagement or off-field kind of controversies.

scrutiny is going to come on Ian Costlow now who's kind of in like a general manager kind of role as well because he was involved in the hiring of Roger Randall or the attempted hiring of Roger Randall too and there'll probably be a bit of scrutiny on Clayton McMillan as well I'm sure when this report is published because it was his kind of guy he wanted to bring in but I think a lot of people will think of this as a positive move and the chance to get someone different running Munster it's a very important time for the club in the short to medium term they lost last weekend their squad isn't as strong as it once was So yeah, very interesting timing.

O'Mahony gives the interview and then literally two days later the story emerges that basically what he was kind of clamouring for was actually in motion.

You know, when I heard the comments and saw Peter, he's being honest and he's a straight up guy, and, and, you know, obviously the stuff was out about Graeme Rowntree throwing the pen the week before, and people say, "Well, it's to sell books," but I think there's a genuine, and, and I, no doubt in my mind there's a genuine concern out of someone here who's investors and, and s- Munster rugby's been a big part of his life, and he should be listened to.

And look, it's difficult if you're in that coaching group with Clayton McMillan and these coaches, and the players, and the staff, and, you know, we had the Roger Randall stuff.

We had the redundancies.

We had the uncertainty of where the season would end up.

Yeah.

Even on Saturday evening, Clayton MacMillan, he was ...

As he always seems to be, he's very, very candid and very, very honest when he's been speaking to the media.

He acknowledged, uh, I'm paraphrasing now, but he says, "We have to, to earn the supporters' dollars and cents back after what happened last year." Um, what do you make of Clayton and the, the coaching team he's put around him now? Are you confident in that group at least that on the pitch there is something positive coming this season?

yeah

I'd be perfectly honest of all the four provincial coaches I think Clayton McMillan would have the most positive outlook after the game if that makes sense because he saw more of what he wanted to do and I definitely saw an improved Munster performance than this time last year like Munster had taken a step up from what they were doing.

Yeah, I think it's interesting because obviously Munster started the season really strong last year, did like five wins or whatever.

I don't think they

it was like other teams underperforming in that sense.

And certainly I think we would have both said that Munster didn't perform well at the tail end of the season last year.

And what we were struggling to see is what was the identity under Clayton McMillan in terms of how they were going to play.

And I agree with you.

There's a governance review going on in relation to that.

And I'll go to you, Brendan Fanning, on this because this has raised an awful lot of speculation about Munster chief executive Ian Flanagan, the general manager Ian Costolo and Clayton Macmillan as coach.

But it seems that maybe this report will take as long to emerge as the investigation into Manchester City's finances.

It might eventually come forward, but where will Munster be by that stage?