Ian Madigan

I didn't notice anything glaringly obvious with his technique where I'm going, geez, he's not committing to these at all.

But sometimes a bit of tension there.

I remember I used to try and tell myself –

I don't care if this misses to try and free up a bit.

But it's hard to do that in a semi-final.

Yeah, and that's where when you have a game like that, some days as well with goal kicking, you can get out and you can drain everything in the warm-up and you get into the game and you just kind of can lose that feel a bit, similar to a golfer going out.

And I think for him, it will have been important in the time from the too long game to this one, what he works on in training, just focusing on ideally one, well, probably two or three things, but ideally when it gets to the game, focusing on one technical point when he's standing over a kick and having figured out in training that when he does that technical point, the likelihood of the ball going over is very, very high.

Yeah.

he has the framework there with his technique to be able to do that.

And I'm confident that he will, he will go out at the weekend and I don't think his goal kicking is going to be an issue.

What about Bordeaux?

Your beloved Bordeaux.

I know.

No, look, I think when you look at the matchups, do you go with the team with the most line breaks, defenders beaten, offloads, the team that has scored 30 tries within three phases?

Or do you go with the team that's...

going to focus on line speed, counter-rooking, and is just desperate.

Desperation in the sport of rugby is a pretty powerful emotion, and that's why I think Leinster are going to get out on top.

Yep.

Yeah.

Not as desperate as they'll be on Saturday.