John O'Sullivan

And I mean the game being the Toulon match.

Panned out in a similar vein from the first 60 all the way through to the final whistle.

I think there was an element of maybe a little bit of frustration and also the fact that he would have got... So when he's making those statements about last year and not being given... Not the press or the media not, you know, kind of making the point or coming to the conclusion that the...

But he wanted to point out he got that information officially from EPCR.

So there would have been a review into how the game was refereed.

There would have been, Leinster would have put in a certain amount of things after that game, Northampton merch, and they would have got feedback.

And the feedback obviously was that, yeah, it should have been a penalty or it should have been a penalty try, both of which he made reference to.

And the fact that the media didn't pick up on that, but that would have been communicated to Leinster in official context after the game.

I think there was an element of frustration with him.

They've kind of battled their way through.

I would say in a general sense, he feels that the media are giving the other provinces a little bit more wriggle room performance-wise and that Leinster are getting the sharp end of the criticism every time.

And the fact that Leinster have got themselves into a Champions Cup final, they haven't got the credit for the manner in which they've had to fight, fight for their place and fight their way through the competition.

So against a backdrop of the Lions tour last year, huge representation in terms of numbers for Ireland and managing all of that and also losing some matches in the URC as well.

and try to fight their way into our guarantee that they'll be in the URC playoffs.

So I think it's an amalgam of a lot of stuff.

And it isn't in his nature to do what he did yesterday.

So you can only envisage the level of frustration.

And also maybe he just wants to push back a little bit.

Maybe that was his, he had decided this was the perfect opportunity as his team had won and reached a Champions Cup final to push back and make the media think again about how they cover Leinster.

You mentioned my name again, which you can imagine how well.