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And Jack Murphy, Wilhelm de Klerk and Sam Berman to Ulster. Chris Cosgrave to somewhere. I don't think any of these are players Leinster will lose sleep about, and to be honest I'd say most of them just weren't offered deals. De Klerk probably the pick of the bunch for me.

Yeah I'd say it's just a case of him being linked everywhere

Jack Boyle linked to everywhere. The provinces, and maybe some English clubs like Sale and Ex

We're unbeaten in SA since God was born, yeehaw

What we actually need is to catch those little Stripe nerds and put them in a headlock until they front up a billion in cash to fund underfloor heated rugby pitches for their alma mater Castletroy college. Imagine having fabulous wealth and not using it to create a new generation of muscly...

There, I have non-ironically fixed Munster rugby.

I mean for me an athlete is an athlete. I think in Sweetnam and O'Connor there's two lads who were extremely well conditioned from being in elite hurling set-ups from a young age.

The Cork v Limerick thing was debated ad nauseum for so many years and these arguments have all been made, but ultimately the HPC in limerick has been rightly seen as a big success. I don't think you could replicate something similar in UCC as what exists in UL. It would be like trying to base...

You've become the thing you hate the most. A Munsterfans poster ca. 2014.

Without doubt, but are Sligo Grammar or Munchins going to have the money to put in place top level S&C to get players pro ready or get in top level coaches on six figures even with better support from the branch or the IRFU? I mean maybe in some isolated cases, but overall probably not. The...

The money will have to come from somewhere though. I don't really know the extent to which private backers are still actually involved, I know the IRFU definitely reigned that in a bit from the days where Rory McIlroy was paying the wages of a few Ulster players. If the IRFU sees a situation...

Yes demographics and the funding of the schools game have nothing to do with this. Leinster being the dominant province is totally totally inevitable. I will fully agree there is some ridiculous takes from fellow Munster fans on Twitter, but let's not act as if Munster are dropping balls here...

Optics I doubt, wage bill I'd believe. Paddy McCarthy another I'll see it when I believe it one. Brownlee and Soroka I'd well believe

Nice to see Bleyendaal back in Ireland! Was always a big fan of him as a player, and glad his coaching career is going well after he had near constant injuries as a player.

Sorry, but abbreviating a Welsh town to Ponty is like me abbreviating an Irish one to Bally. It's every second town! Also someone needs to teach Leinster how bidding works. the logical jump from a subsidised go on the bumper cars at Barry Island is not 200K

I think I saw Brownlee. I know nothing about the lad though. Realistically every fringe Leinster player will be linked somewhere this year, and the IRFU are probably having conversations with a huge number of them.

This largely being my point, something has to give eventually! Also very much commenting on how mad it is that a surely ambitious lad would rather stay the course for Leinster than walk into a starting role with Ulster. I understand and appreciate the reasons, but I think it would be a no...

Insane a Byrne or Prendergast hasn't been tempted North yet. Don't get me wrong I'm sure they tried, but wild no one feels like starting for a province over just sticking put

The famously big ego of Jordie Barrett? I think it ultimately comes down to they were given the money and Barrett fills a gap for a period of time the IRFU are accepting of. It makes zero sense to me on the face of it, but I'll wait and see what the IRFU do next. I think the rebellion will come...

200% not a choice. Leinster would have signed the Monstars from Space Jam if the IRFU had allowed them to and given them the cash. As would any team in their right mind.