Bernard Jackman

But Connacht has coached international rugby before, has coached a lot of the Leinster players before.

And yeah, hopefully it'll be a long way down the road.

But at the moment, he's the one in Ireland, I think, who is most likely to step up.

I think Leinster have come full circle.

There's been a lot to like about how Leinster have been defending over the last three or four weeks.

The energy, the power in their ball carry, the form of certain players, like Joe McCarty stepping up, Hugh Keenan coming in fresh, obviously, and hitting the ground running.

The competition between...

Robbie Henshaw, Jamie Osborne, Rico, James Lowe being fit.

I know Tommy Bryan's a knock.

Jimmy Bryan's form has been really good as well.

And he'd probably miss out on the 23.

So, yeah, Leinster just peaking at the right time.

Bordeaux actually looking human, you know, in terms of recent results.

Came back from quite a big deficit against Perpignan, but won.

But, yeah, Barry had to come on and he scored two tries, I think.

And then he was limping.

after the game so his fitness it would be a big concern for them have a huge boost to lens if he was out because obviously we know he's got game-changing ability and so much of their game is around on turnover just you know putting it in behind and letting him win the foot race um so yeah there's a nice momentum it's gonna be a brilliant game and uh it's certainly bordeaux are are worthy favorites because of

They have the best form, but there's a lot to like about Leinster recently.

Yeah, interestingly, I know that Leinster had lobbied the URC quite strongly for at least a season, maybe two seasons, that they didn't want to go to South Africa when they had been going to South Africa.

So if you remember, Leinster always got a fast start, or startly a fast start, and then the front-liner stayed at home, leading into knockout rugby.