Cian Tracey

He actually taught Dan Sheehan in school.

He was his maths teacher, which is quite funny to see how far they've come.

Sheehan was laughing that he kicked him out of his class.

I'm sure he was only joking.

He said he wasn't very good at maths, but like,

The insight that Noel McNamara will have, I mean, Caelan Dorris was his Ireland under-20s captain.

I know he's been gone from the Irish system for a while, but he knows these players very, very well.

And I think in a day like this, that insight will be very, very helpful.

Yeah, all eight are Lions players, like the starting Leinster pack.

Obviously, Thomas Clarkson was a late call-up last summer and I absolutely think that that's where they will look to get the edge.

I mentioned Carl Dixon already in terms of his interpretation around the breakdown.

I think the first scrum will be quite telling as well.

Luke Pearce was the ref

another English referee jury for this Leinster semi-final win over Toulon like generally speaking Irish teams haven't favoured that well with English referees in charge in terms of the scrum and that but I think that boded really well in terms of how well the Leinster pack stood up to

the Toulon scrum particularly in that semi-final so that is an area where they'll look to get on top for sure I think the first scrum would really set the tone for what's to come but like I said they should have no fear whatsoever if you go mano-mano for the packs alone I think the Leinster players are coming out on top pretty much in most positions aren't they?

I've kind of been flip-flopping throughout the course of the week, but when I come back to it, it's just hard to avoid the sense that this Bordeaux team are just in a better place than Leinster.

But I give Leinster such a good shot here tomorrow.

I'd feel a lot more confident, I think, if they had Baird and Snyman just to kind of beef up that bench a little bit more.

But

This is a Bordeaux team, Will, who've lost, I think it's 10 games in the top 14 this season.