Gerry Thornley

And by the way, Shane, that was the same bit of corner flagging, akin to the corner flagging he did in Rome...

to tackle Leonardo Marine two years ago but for which Ireland would have been beaten by Italy that day as well so fair play to Joe McCarthy for finding the reserves of energy to make these especially when you're a big heavy dude yeah completely completely and James Ryan put in an enormous shift as well 13 tackles

But I thought Caelan Darius' performance was off the charts.

Just a ridiculous performance.

And whatever motivated it.

And yeah, I think when they come to the final, it'd be interesting to see how Leo manages the next two weeks now.

You'd imagine Darius and others will get at least one, if not both, weeks off.

It'd be interesting to see.

They need the wins in the URC as well.

By the way, they're the URC champions.

We never mentioned that.

So it was a complete disaster last season.

But I do think...

Mentally, they might be in a freer place coming up against the reigning champions who will be the hot favourites who everybody expects to win.

And they also have good vibrations about going back to Bilbao.

Ah, indeed, indeed.

They're very selective in their use of replays, aren't they?

Very quickly, I thought fair play to Harry Byrne to miss those early shots to goal and miss those kicks to touch.

to stay to play so well as a result of that not let that affect him showed his mental strength um i agree with shane i think kieran frawley will come back into the 23 because he's a more genuine option at 15 or utility back and defensively stronger but it'll be fascinating to see what they do with joanna and james james low now being back in the frame fit again he'll surely get a game or two over the next two weeks if he

shoots the lights out does he come into the starting team Ioanni I think has been very good in all three knockout matches not just the semi-final but getting to your point about Bilbao will be like a home game for Bordeaux to a large degree and you'd imagine they'll drive down in droves it's less than four hours away from Bordeaux to Bilbao in the Basque country and