Gerry Thornley

And all those ties were at home.

It's hard to think that they would have beaten Bordeaux-Vegla and or Toulouse or faced either of them before the final.

Who knows?

But just when you tally that with the final defeat, I don't know.

I came away from the vow thinking, this is the French.

Fifth year in a row, the French have won the tournament.

It's an era of unprecedented French top couture dominance.

They have almighty muscle and firepower, even though they do have a slog of the league.

And it seemed to me as if

more out of length has reached than it has been for some time since 2018 since our last win I don't know it just seems very difficult so I don't know that there's much guarantees they're going to make another final of that competition next season is what I'm saying and it's a bloody difficult act trying to juggle your playing squad to compete in both fronts and if there's ever a defeat he gets blamed first whereas if they reach both finals he gets a little credit for it I do think that juggling act has been quite significant and he's done it pretty well over the years by and large and it's an achievement to make both finals and

It might be a while before they do that again.

So I don't know.

I mean, it could be that they'll have a big season next year, moving back to the Leia Arena, which I think is a big thing.

He wants to finish in the RDS.

They will get a huge boost from that.

Every Leinster supporter, player, media, everybody alike has Aviva fatigue.

They haven't played a knockout match in the RDS for four years, in which time they played 22 games at the Aviva and Crow Park.

And they haven't had a match in the RDS of any kind in over two years.

I've seen what it's been like in Galway with the Dexcom Stadium.

I remember when it was initially like Coleman Park and Limerick.