Alan Quinlan
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I think we'll see and know where they're at.
You won't get a true reflection even if they played the full team this week.
I think there's always a few little things that you'd hold back.
But I've said this from the start of the season, I could be wrong.
I think Leinster have a great chance of winning the Champions Cup.
Obviously, you have two games to do that.
They've been, you know, we've probably spoken a lot about them all season, that they're not the Leinster we were probably used to in the last four or five seasons, that you felt that it was theirs to lose every time in the Champions Cup.
We haven't been speaking about them like that this year.
But I think they could be... It's a different mentality from this year.
There's a little bit less pressure.
They haven't been hitting the highs of previously.
And...
you know, they could, they could surprise a few people.
There's still a lot of good players there.
And, uh, I think that was a great boost from last week.
And, and, and Derek probably agree.
Um, we didn't see that one coming.
I thought it'd be a lot closer and, and probably would have fancied Ulster to win the game.
Um, but that performance and that energy and, and particularly those first 50 minutes, Lens were excellent.
They looked like they were, they had a real intensity to their performance.