Gordon D’Arcy

predominantly defenses can be better organized than so they can organize quicker than the attack can organize if it's medium ball and most of lenzer's ball was medium ball that ball on the flip side is the killer issue i mean everyone talks about the line speed and guys shooting out of the line and getting picked off which happened to you only for that try but

You look at the quality of the Bordeaux rucking, but also it was the right pass at the right time.

I think they had half the number of rucks.

So their carries were much more pronounced and they just got quicker ruck ball easier over the game line.

But I suppose the bigger question is why?

They were harder to read and there was harder to defend.

So there was no certainty in defense.

So when Bordeaux put that shape together off the scrum, who was the person going, lads, we've got to shift wider?

Who's seen that before, had that in their head to go, we need to adjust?

Where was the adjustment?

And that's the bit where you're kind of going, there was so much adjustment from Bordeaux.

Where are they going to attack?

They weren't sure where they were going to attack.

So go back to one of the things you said earlier.

If you don't know where the attack is going to be, that unpredictability, how can a defence?

So Bordeaux just weren't painting off a sheet.

When you look at their carries, they just picked a runner and then players had to react to it.

And I think that's where Leinster struggled because they wanted certainty.

They wanted to be able to say, I want to get off the line, I want to hit him.

But they didn't know where that was.