Neil Treacy

France was probably the one that you'd really targeted.

All in all, though, happy with the progress that's been made over the last couple of months.

Yeah, Bernard, I mean, certainly just even from a crowd point of view, you can see the support that's coming in.

The tournament is getting bigger and bigger year on year.

And particularly off the back of that English Rugby World Cup, there's still a huge amount to buy in.

Yeah, well, enjoy the bit of time off you have coming up.

And obviously it won't be long before you're back into it again for those games in September and October.

Let's get straight in with the Champions Cup final.

Bordeaux 41, Leinster 19 at San Mames and Bilbao 35-7 at halftime.

And Bernard, the big question is, is Ben Tamifuna still on the lash?

As of last night, he was.

And Gareth, like even going back to your time at Exeter, there's nearly some small parallels even between when you see those celebrations of how Bordeaux have just completely, or the team itself have just almost taken over that city.

And I suppose you would have been the big show in town back in Exeter when you were winning premiership titles and that Champions Cup as well.

Yeah, their supporters were absolutely incredible on Saturday.

I saw the convoy of them coming in at one stage when I was outside the stadium before the match.

It was fantastic.

Just the noise right through the 80 minutes.

On Leinster, though, obviously, you know,

The real place you have to start, unfortunately, is that first half, 35-7 down at halftime.

They get a perfect start.