Jack O'Donoghue

The Bulls are... [laughs] That gauntlet of a pack, and they're absolutely massive, Alan.

Yeah, I think, look, they, they have, um, for Munster then as well, they're unfortunate because Jack O'Donoghue, uh, Alex Nankivell-

Yeah

... uh, Diarmuid Byrne, and there's one other, um, got injured last week.

And finally, Munster hope that Irish internationals Craig Casey and Jeremy Lachman will be available for their URC clash with the Bulls at the weekend.

Dermot Barron, Alex Nankerville, Jack O'Donoghue and Mike Haley, they've all been ruled out.

And we'll be talking more about Manchester City later in the programme.

Darren, thank you very much for that.

Meanwhile, Munster will welcome back Ireland internationals Craig Casey and Jeremy Lukeman to the fold for this weekend's United Rugby Championship clash.

But Dermot Barron, Alex Nankoville, Jack O'Donoghue and Mike Haley have been ruled out.

Both Casey and Lukeman missed their opening round defeat to the Glasgow Warriors due to their stand down having been involved in Ireland's summer test but are set to return for the round 2 clash.

New signing Jack Anger as well as Tom O'Hearn, Shane Daly and Rowan Quinn are also primed for their season debuts on Saturday having returned to full fitness.

There are injury concerns with Mike Haley ruled out a knee injury, while Dermot Barron, Alex Nankerville and Jack O'Donoghue will also miss the Round 2 clash as they go through the return to play protocols.

But former Munster man Alan Quinlan joined Colin Boothig and Dara Smith-Nocton on Monday's off-the-ball breakfast and he said there were positives from Munster that they could take from the weekend.

They still have issues for sure and probably a bit of pace and out-and-out finishing.

Yeah.

He's turning into another Jack O'Donoghue, which isn't a bad thing by any means, you know, but...

but it's not what they expected from him.

It's not what they hoped he would turn into.

And like, and that's a fan's perspective on the outside in.

And you kind of go look at Tom Ahern and Evan O'Connell.

There's, like in all fairness Fia Witchy is 28 years old they did a six year gap to Tyke Byrne like that's actually quite a young pack you know like because everyone's quite like second rows pairing back rows are quite young apart from Jack O'Donoghue like there's a good age profile there for this team to kind of Take a step Yeah Forward I just But I think like

I think when you like Listen to Munster A lot right Or I think when In media when people Talk about Munster right I think the likes of like Edwin at Dogboat Gets talked about In the same category as Nick Timoney I'm going to use those two As the example And that is A unfair comparison to Edwin Redogbo because Nick Timoney has proved himself at an international level in a way that Edwin Redogbo has not and like people I will say that I can already hear people being like he was injured he wasn't injured this year guys like he was fit sorry he was available in the Six Nations he was dropped due to fitness That's all the reports are.