Ian Madigan

And before you know it, it's gone five, seven, nine phases.

You're in behind your posts.

And no one has made a glaringly obvious missed tackle, but it's just soaking up yards, pressure.

You're on the back foot.

You can't get reset.

You can't get off the line.

So for Ulster to win this game, I think they need to change what they're doing defensively and fire some shots on those first few phases to really shock Montpellier.

And they're going to need to do that as well for 80 minutes because their attack...

it is a tiring system to run, and then that's leaving them kind of fatigued when they're defending.

So that's a big area of improvement for this Ulster team, both for this final, but also as they progress next year.

Yeah, and full credit to Connick.

They've turned it around.

I think they were conceding something like, on average, 28 points per game, and they've nearly halved that in the second half of the season.

That's a great stat, but you're looking at, well, how have they done that?

Well, they've become much more efficient with their attack.

If you look at the high phase count that they were going into in the first half of the season, they've actually reduced that significantly in the second half of the season.

Yeah.

I wouldn't say they were listening to us.

Lancaster and his coaching team, they're smart enough to have figured that out themselves.

But it's that balance.