Brett Igoe

you know your jack conan getting on that but it was actually andrew porter they they kind of maneuvered it far so uh lots of positives in there um and then the other side of the coin like i know we'll speak about it in a couple weeks properly but like with bordeaux they're not exactly bulletproof either they're unbelievably talented but on the day they can have a couple of their own errors and they haven't lit up the top 14 either so it's not unachievable at all i think lengths are in a really good position despite some of the negatives around their game

I think that's the impressive part of their game.

Even with 13, they were able to put structure on the game and absolutely dictate the physical proceedings as well.

So not dissimilar to what I thought they did in the first quarter.

The first and third quarters were where they won the game.

that's the huge positive of it because I think when they've got clarity on what they're doing and they've obviously got the individual quality as well to convert that, they don't need to do anything special.

You can just see... Now, they've definitely tried a little bit in their attack.

You can see, like, after a first phase, they get around the corner, they've got a little bit of a different shape.

There's an outside forward going hard and then there's the pot of three out the back and there's kind of all sorts of layers to that attack.

I don't think we've seen...

enough kind of effectiveness in that like you see Hugo Keenan was detaching and they put the ball behind the forward to a pot at three I think it was Doris probably in the middle of it and then Keenan's coming on another hard line outside of that I don't think the timing of that is great yet I don't know how live they are but the structure and the amount of options that they have at the line you can see that they're trying to show different

kind of patterns and more options and more layers in their attack so a lot of it I think there's loads that they're building but you can only imagine how disruptive it's been you know we don't see half of it we don't get well I certainly don't get communication on half of like who they have available from week to week and imagine training can be quite difficult but the longer this season goes on and I know it's finite but the longer it could go on the more you'd see Leinster get cohesive I think which is why you know I'm sure they're quietly confident in the background but yeah as you said the third quarter was dominant but I think the

part of me around their defence you know I think they're getting very overly competitive like you see Doris who had a I've seen people say he had a 10 out of 10 game I can only call it you know 9 and a bit out of 10 because of the penalties like you know you can't he's just so disruptive in the breakdown which you know the invisibility cloak seems to have disappeared a small bit and he's getting in the way and then I thought the two defensive penalties one from Ringrose and one from Keenan they're not malicious at all like and they're slight timing errors I think it was said on commentary that um

for the Gary Ringrose one I can't remember who was inside him but you'd like for that person to have gotten a bit higher in their defence because he's looking to be aggressive and there's no reason why someone inside should kind of stay off and then the timing is wrong and they're hitting someone without the ball but it's split second stuff but at the same time there's probably five or six penalties within there that they've disrupted all their flow and all the good stuff gets kind of dampened by some of the disruption

In my own experience, it can be quite tough, you know, but players that get to a higher level obviously have a better ability to kind of wash that off, you know, but there's some days that I, well, in my own experience anyway, you just feel like the ball is hitting funny parts of your foot, like you're just kicking game.

That sort of felt like his kicking game was off because even after the...

what was the sequence he missed the kick at goal and then he had a poor clearance did he after that one that he would have been very that gave Tillon a bit of an entry and was it the restart after that went out in the full so it was about 10 minutes I think I clocked it it was like 10 minutes on the clock and I was like jeez three errors in there I actually forgot what the one laid on you're right like forward because at the time when I was thinking about it you're going

forwards have worked really hard for it and within a split second you put them back into a set piece and they're not thanking you so at the same time Harry Burns is a really talented player I've seen him since he just broke onto the AOL scene in Lansdowne I think he scored two tries against us I've probably mentioned it on the podcast before up in Lansdowne on the back pitch and I remember at the time going Jesus there's another one they're so talented but he's

I think he did really well in the attacking game.

I actually had to stop myself from kind of error counting when I was watching it because when you look at what they put together, as you say, I think he's instrumental in their attack.