Gordon D’Arcy

When there was any sort of narrowness on the scoreboard, George Ford is still kicking the hoof in the ball down the field.

You're just like, OK, well, everybody knows you're not going to win a game like that unless it is the turnover ball and the LBRE is hammering down the wing on it.

But when you're starting...

Your starting option is to tactically kick and play percentages.

You're outdated if you're playing percentages at the moment, I think.

I think just with the sale piece, because they didn't come to play in a game like that, it can be very hard to find your footing because you're really, all you're doing is breaking down, trying to break down the defense, but then they know they're not really there to play or to, they never really came with a belief that they,

could win and sometimes they more just kind of got in the wrong place at the right time they kind of frustrated Leinster into it and that took them a bit of time to get going you would have liked to have seen Leinster be a little bit more sharper yeah dispense them quicker yeah

It has opened up for them and other teams have won Champions Cups coming in as the underdog.

If they win at home against Toulon, you know, six, eight weeks to ramp up into a final.

You're looking at this and you're looking at Toulon and you're looking at what Leinster are doing.

Normally you would just say home advantage is enough to get them through.

Now there's a big question mark over that.

A lot of work needs to be done between here and there.

I know there's always a home advantage, even if there's fucking five people in the stadium.

It's always, you're going to have to travel.

That bit, it definitely does matter for teams, whether you have to travel or you're playing at home.

In years gone by, and John kind of said it already, that if we're judging Leinster by their own particularly high bar, you would have said...

in the same way Leinster team of a couple of years ago would have put sale to 20, 30 points by, by halftime, the home advantage would be, Oh yeah, that's a fate of company.

You know, we can start looking to the final, but I don't think you would have that level of confidence with too long traveling.

At least they won't have to worry about not playing their best players.