Gareth Steenson

They're very infectious the way they play the game and the way rugby's followed in Bordeaux.

They're obviously still celebrating.

Big Ben's still celebrating.

Great for him, but they're going to be wanting to taste more success again.

At the end of the day, this is going to be wanting to try and get another trophy in the bag before the end of the season.

And I think the biggest thing about this is you can see what it means to not just the players, but to the supporters, to the city, to everything.

And I think that's a really powerful tool.

Whenever you go over there to any French team, they're very, very good at getting behind their squad and very good behind them.

And I suppose whenever we had similar sort of feelings when we were at Exeter, you still had that sort of community push behind you.

Now, I'd say it's a bigger, it's a bigger animal probably in Bordeaux than it was at Exeter.

But listen, I love to see it because that's what rugby is built on.

That's the foundations and,

The fact that the fellas are still out and celebrating, so they should.

So, yeah, it is because everything you're talking about there, it's just something how you just put pressure on a team.

And I suppose when they come back and reflect on what they're talking about, trying to like, you know, almost build themselves up going forward.

You know, you're talking about the opportunities they took.

You're absolutely right.

The opportunities they really got earlier in the game when the game's gone and those types of discipline areas.

that just mounts pressure and you add that on top of, you know, the basic areas, you know, the kick out in the full, the catch, all those sort of things.

When you're in the cauldron of a final and you're coming up against a team that's a big, powerful side, you just sort of feel it's all kind of going against you a little bit.