John O'Sullivan
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Roomy, I think you described him.
Roomy.
Yeah, line speed dropped after 60 minutes.
You could see it.
And that comes down to a number of things.
One is the raft of replacements, as Gordon has touched on quite rightly.
The other thing is a little bit of energy is gone.
Batteries are a little bit lower.
And you could see a drop off.
But when they changed Tommy O'Brien on 67 minutes...
All of a sudden, with the reshuffle, now it was kind of, you could see the coordination, cohesion.
And let's give Jacques Ninaber some credit.
Leinster's defence won them the match in the way that they defended.
They put huge pressure on Toulon.
They stopped them playing.
It was all very comfortable for 60 minutes, with the exception of the one try that Toulon scored because Leinster were down a man and shortly to be down two men.
And, you know, Leinster comfortably contained most of what Toulon had to offer.
So that was hugely positive.
Those last 13 minutes, it went from collective cohesion and coordination in defence to individuals chasing certain things.
And there were doglegs all over the place.