Simon Zebo

I think there feels like there's something culturally within rugby where kind of feels a little bit cringe, or they're just not used to it, or they feel a bit embarrassed about kind of pushing their brand.

Like, who, who was the person who did this best in my time? It was Simon Zebo, and he was way more famous than any of us.

Tommy Bowe was very good at it.

Now he's in morning TV.

Zebo going on his own.

He gets the try

The Red 78

Yeah.

And I just think you sometimes you can undervalue the leadership presence, and there is a lot of big leadership gone in the last number of years.

If you think of Peter, Connor, Keith Earls, Archer, John Ryan, you know, Simon Zebo, um, they're the kind of homegrown ones that, you know, Andrew Conway went as well, and, you know, players who were, you know, very much ingrained in it and very passionate about their performances, um, they, they're gone.

So there was a big kinda leadership foil.

And look, that happens with teams.

You're away at Munster, so it was gonna be rusty.

A bit of a contentious decision, which Simon Zebo wasn't happy with in comms, and rightly so.

Uh, Kilgallin threw a lovely flat seed out on the wing to Nankivell, which got called forward.

Um, and they were breaking down the edge.

If you could get two tickets to VIP for AJ against Fury at Cardiff, you'll have a million people to go with.

I would say to you, invite your mate from the URC, Simon Zebo, and sit next to him.

'Cause pa- firstly, he's amazing company.

Secondly, it is honestly, mate, the best...

I watch quite a lot of boxing.

It is the best boxing commentary I've ever listened to, sitting next to Simon Zebo.

I'm not...

I said it at the time.

Um, it's one of those things where I'm sort of expecting it just to be sort of, you know, phased out and not much comes out of it, as a lot of reviews in Irish sport tend to be.

I would say their hierarchy are sitting uncomfortably because there's another former Munster player, uh, book due out in the next few weeks, Simon Zebo's.

Uh, I haven't heard yet if there's gonna be anything explosive in that.

Zebo, a little bit of a different type of character, you'd have to say, to Conor Murray, um, and Peter O'Mahony, but there could be stuff in that about Zebo's experience in, in Munster as well.