Eddie O'Sullivan

like an incredible disaster and it came that close to one pass and even you can argue that if Drain had gone to ground there was no Leinster man in sight to go for poach it was a clear ruck it would have been like a four nanosecond ruck and it was way into the middle of the field I mean they were probably cooked only that he threw their offload and I think it really realized his life flashed before him you know I've had I've had that myself I remember the world cup in 03 playing Argentina one point game

The clock was up, and the referee decided to take a scrum.

Back then, the TMOs didn't control the clock, and Argentina got a player around the corner, and it was just Gervin Dempsey between me and my career, and he put the guy into touch, and we won the game by a point.

So, look, there's moments that your life flashes before you, and that was such a big moment for Leo, and I think that shook him to his core, to think that they were cruising, 18 points up, 10 minutes on the clock, and it came down to one...

bad decision or a bad offload that saved him.

And I think he was in shock.

It's so unlike him to go into that mode.

And it's interesting he went back last year because this has dwelt in it because of Northampton last year.

He talked about the poor calls they got.

He was trying to make the point, I think the general point, that these big games are always going to be tight.

They're always going to be down to moments.

And he went back to 2014.

He said, you think back to the semi-final.

We were away in France in 2014.

And Wesley Fafala knocks the ball in over the try line.

That's how we get to the final.

It wasn't anything we did.

And then they went on to beat Ulster in the final.

He said 14, so I think he maybe got it wrong.

I'm just quoting him directly.