Gordon D’Arcy

I'm, yeah, I'm kind of, as always, trying to be glass half full.

I'd love to be in that changing room this week.

Yeah, I just, I feel there's more of a resignation and with that comes a little bit of freedom that you're not in control of everything.

And I think maybe Leinster have been guilty of that and trying to

it's being too cute is the wrong way of saying it but they've tried to do too much or they've tried to control too much and there's a kind of a yeah just that resignation of that that they're not in control of everything and that can be quite freeing as a player because you just say okay we will just control what we can control and

play our best game, everybody be ready, be right, not get tight in the game, enjoy it, that kind of thing, that kind of a mindset.

And that frees them up an awful lot to go in and just to swing for the rope.

And I've been that player where you understand that you're not in control of everything.

We just say going, okay, well,

All I have to do is trust that the guy on my left and my right is going to be as well prepared as they can be.

They're going to fight for their life in this game.

And that's all I have to do.

And when you get that right, it's kind of the thing I've talked about a couple of times and I've written about.

It's like getting the head right so the body follows.

So I think that is a really...

really good place.

You talk about that Munster attitude that they had when they were at their peak in the 2000s where they just created that feeling that nobody backed them and they had that chip on their shoulder and they loved that underdog's mindset.

I think Leinster have embraced it a little bit.

I don't necessarily think it's an underdog mindset.

I think they have embraced the fact that people have written them off