532 : URC Grand Final preview

First of all, I suppose we should get your thoughts on the, it was finally, we finally got the, the rumor's been going on for months.

Finally got the bad news about James Lowe.

What are your thoughts?

I was hoping against hope that something could have been done.

I thought the reaction of former players was a bit of pressure on Leinster Rugby, but it turns out it wasn't.

There's too many sides to this story.

The big man wants him in the squad, and you kind of should go with that.

And then you kind of go, for us, with the blue jersey on, it's probably costing us nearly 60 grand to get him on the pitch because he's...

He's under player management minutes and all that sort of stuff.

But all that stuff taken into account, the annoying part is the fella clearly wants to stay.

He's clearly operating at a massively high level still.

And the deal was on the table.

It's a bit like, you know, after a few drinks, you go to McDonald's and they take the food away from you after you've ordered it.

So it's a little bit frustrating.

And I do feel there's a few things creeping in with Leinster, whether it's an organization issue, bad communications issue, or just bad decision issue.

And I think that was just a big kind of end of that spear.

And I'm good at it.

I'm personally good at it.

I loved watching them play.

a guy who is a genetic freak he's not the fastest guy in the world but he did everything so well or does everything so well if you need pressure elevated he can do that if you need someone if you need him to go on a straight line he can do that look it's hard to say whether it's good or bad for Leinster because we're lucky to have so many out that part of the pitch But for Ireland, I think it's massive.

I think if you look at the business end of a World Cup, he's one of the players you want there who will alleviate that pressure, who will take the ball on himself, similar to what Froli did in the final for us a couple of weeks ago.

Take the responsibility.

He was always a player, is always a player who will do that.

And we'll miss it.

I'm good at it.

First of all, I suppose we should get your thoughts on the, it was finally, we finally got the, the rumor's been going on for months.

Finally got the bad news about James Lowe.

What are your thoughts?

I was hoping against hope that something could have been done.

I thought the reaction of former players was a bit of pressure on Leinster Rugby, but it turns out it wasn't.

There's too many sides to this story.

The big man wants him in the squad, and you kind of should go with that.

And then you kind of go, for us, with the blue jersey on, it's probably costing us nearly 60 grand to get him on the pitch because he's...

He's under player management minutes and all that sort of stuff.

But all that stuff taken into account, the annoying part is the fella clearly wants to stay.

He's clearly operating at a massively high level still.

And the deal was on the table.

It's a bit like, you know, after a few drinks, you go to McDonald's and they take the food away from you after you've ordered it.

So it's a little bit frustrating.

And I do feel there's a few things creeping in with Leinster, whether it's an organization issue, bad communications issue, or just bad decision issue.

And I think that was just a big kind of end of that spear.

And I'm good at it.

I'm personally good at it.

I loved watching them play.

a guy who is a genetic freak he's not the fastest guy in the world but he did everything so well or does everything so well if you need pressure elevated he can do that if you need someone if you need him to go on a straight line he can do that look it's hard to say whether it's good or bad for Leinster because we're lucky to have so many out that part of the pitch But for Ireland, I think it's massive.

I think if you look at the business end of a World Cup, he's one of the players you want there who will alleviate that pressure, who will take the ball on himself, similar to what Froli did in the final for us a couple of weeks ago.

Take the responsibility.

He was always a player, is always a player who will do that.

And we'll miss it.

I'm good at it.