Rob Kearney

But then where I had some sympathy for him, like this, the player saying, oh, he told me I didn't, you know, got to do better than you did last week on the day of the game.

I mean, Joe Schmidt whispering in Rob Kearney's ear in Chicago was sort of, you know, spun as a masterstroke almost.

I thought it was a very, very bad

example.

So I always had it in the back of my head.

I was always very conscious of making sure that we made good investments along the way and it was actually Rob Kearney at the time that brought me into that whole set up with what we have now

yeah it's very exciting it's growing and continues to grow

so it's growing really well and it's things are going from strength to strength there so

I'm like, "Wait, which way are they gonna go?" And, and maybe sometimes on TV it's harder to see.

But I remember Rob Kearney, right, like, maybe a year ago, 18 months ago, wh- when it really looked like, well, the heat was on Prendergast, and people were just not buying it.

And Rob said he's even started to doubt himself, because he really felt Prendergast was, was, you know, worth backing all the way.

And he, and he, I remember him saying to me, he went, he went through a game and just, just looked at Prendergast, and he reckoned, I remember him saying to me, "He made the correct decision every single time." And Rob knows what the correct decision is every single time in a way that I don't, but it, it just remember, always stuck in my head.

Uh, and the, what was the RDS? Well, it still is the RDS, but that's the now the Leia Arena, and it's gonna take a capacity to 20,000 people.

A Leinster legend, Rob Kearney, is on the line.

So I just wanna say hello to Rob and ask-

Hi.