Joe

Bayonne have a great home record, Basque region.

There was a great atmosphere at the game.

Bayonne, nothing to play for, were just up for it.

It was just like one of those kind of

interesting occasions where there's not much at stake here for either side in a way Leinster obviously wanted to finish as high as they could but as Bordeaux will attest it doesn't always work out in your favour if you do it just kind of took on a life of its own if we're just playing to win the game exactly that like Eddie would know the Basque country well from his time at Brits

We don't build stadiums like this.

I know.

Yeah, it was kind of only the last 15 minutes where you felt, Bayon, slightly tiring physically, Eddie, or just Leinster had managed to absorb it and the likes of McCarthy off the bench, Sheehan off the bench.

What did you make of them in general terms?

Yeah.

Loads in that.

It's funny, you know, I remember reading in Sexton's autobiography, the year they kind of waltzed their way to the final, which they lost to La Rochelle in Dublin.

He was kind of injured or out for a spell and didn't really feel he could be speaking up.

But he felt, as there were blitzing teams in all these games, that there were things not right and he didn't say anything.

And he regretted, actually, we should have been going through it with a fine tooth comb, but we were just winning so much that...

you know it's fine on to the next game it's going well you'd have to say about this current Leinster set up they're kind of under the cosh a lot they're certainly being road tested their mentality's being road tested they're being put in a lot of sticky spots who knows with that draw maybe it stands to them that's if you're really kind of just reaching for a positive and

you assume the attack will improve.

The defence, I do take your point on, Eddie.

Like, so that bay on midfield or try on midfield, people can look at it.

Like, it's off a line out off the coaching park and, like, Leinster are numbered up.