Jack Carty

I'm going to temper, we've been incredibly high on Connacht so far in this conversation.

I will temper it a little bit though, if you look at the players they've lost, because they have lost some significant names there, like really, really experienced campaigners like Dennis Buckley, Jack Carty, Joe Joyce.

I know someone like Jack Carty, for example, hadn't been a first team regular week on week over the last couple of seasons, but that's still a very, very influential and important voice in the dressing room.

Jack Ainger, obviously, it's an Ireland international who's gone down to Munster.

But I wonder, Matthew Devine looks like he could be the biggest loss of them all.

pretty big names, and again, as we mentioned last night, some high-profile players leaving.

Jez Buckley, Jack Carty, Jack Anger, Joe Joyce, Peter Dooley, Matthew Devine, who we already mentioned has gone to Ulster.

So it's a weird spot, and Adam, like, it's very easy to say Connacht will get top 8.

It's very easy to predict any problems and get top 8.

However...

There's players, like, there's players leaving the likes of, as I said, Matthew Devine, Jack Carty, Jack Carty had the retired, retired as well.

Jack Ongers went, you know, you've got a couple of players like that, but then they've brought in the likes of Gerry Cahir, who did really well in terms of Ireland, like has a few Ireland caps in his name.

You've got Will Connors as well, who is another player that is really, was like in the background for Leinster, but he's one of those players that are like, oh, he's in the background for Leinster, but surely he probably has 70 caps with him.

Who

is Jack Carty? That's why he's not here.

LAUGHTER

No, no, no. Jack wasn't hitting a bike.

So, so-

So our leavers, Denis Buckley and Jack Carty, obviously two very big profile guys gone.

Both, uh, both retiring.

Well, Denis Buckley says-