There’s been a huge reaction to LBJ’s tailoring requirements and unparliamentary language. We open the bulging mailbag.

Leinster play Toulon in a Champions Cup semi this weekend, fresh from a defeat away to lowly Benetton. We chat to Shane Horgan and Brendan Fanning about their patchy form, a prop shortage and the massive impact that SF loss to Northampton still has on the team.

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We discuss the ongoing fallout from Munster’s appointment of Roger Randle and the pressure this crisis has put on management at the province.

Plus there’s the push to give Carrick the job at Man United, canny Casemiro, PSG’s ace midfield, ACL conspiracy theories, and Sherwood science.

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