John O'Sullivan

And the other thing I'd say is that switching players around

because they have, in a utility sense, is great, as long as there's been a little bit of training time spent doing that sort of thing.

I think the fact that Leinster potentially have the likes of Jordan Larmer, James Lowe coming back, Jimmy O'Brien will obviously come into the equation, Ciarán Foley, all this,

So there will be more backline resources and it'll be a proper fight for places now.

Because if all of those players are fit and there's two URC games to play, you would expect that injuries permitting that they would be in the mix, that there would be probably 10 or 11 players for seven places in the backline, which again is a very healthy situation and it'll make it slightly tougher.

So...

I think that's a positive from it.

And I think also lessons learned.

It's like anything else.

If you survive and you win a match, you analyze the game and you see things that worked and didn't work.

And I think what Gordon has touched on there is absolutely 100% accurate.

It didn't work.

So you would be silly to try and revisit something like that if you were playing in a final and it was foisted on you again.

Can you imagine if that, through a succession of injuries, happened eight minutes into the final against Bordeaux?

If you look at where 10s defend, so if you look at any long kick, the 10 is in the backfield.

The thing with Sam is nobody would deny how much ability he has.

The problem is that when aspects of your game come into focus,

for whatever reason, then the spotlight remains on that aspect of your game until it changes or until you improve it and develop it.

And unfortunately for him, it is going to be that way.

So how he can improve in a very short space of time is difficult to say in the context of where the season is at the moment.