Rúaidhrí O'Connor

I think that they won the coaching battle.

Bordeaux, I think they looked like the better prepped side.

They looked like they had...

They bought into their plan with everything they had and they believed in it and they were committed to it and they knew that if they played the way they planned to play and if they brought their best to the table, they could break Leinster and they did it repeatedly.

Now they had a bit of luck

But the first three tries, I think, before the kind of bit of... Now, even the third try comes off the kick from Louis Bill Bray that just brushes Hugo Keenan's hand and ends up going dead.

It's a scrum five, and it leads to a try.

So there is an element of luck there, and there was some freak kind of stuff that went... The old cliche, you make your own luck, don't you, in this game?

But I think, in particular, the Huberti try just showed the limitations of this fence.

I just don't know if it works with this group of players.

I think it...

when you're dealing with the spring box maybe you can make anything work but I just don't think it suits them I've thought it all the way through and I think it just has such limitations and it also takes your legs away and when on attack they just looked absolutely wrecked at times and they just didn't have that energy or vibrancy now it's hard when you're carrying against those kind of players but I think it really saps away from the team's energy

Oh, like, the way Ciarán Foley has been handled across his career, really, because, like, you know, Luke Fitzgerald, Shane Horgan, I've heard, they've been banging the drum for this guy.

They can see the player that's there and he, like, he's obviously just decided that he needs to get game time and he's gone to Connacht and I was speaking to him after the game there and, like, you know, he spoke about the move and...

he's sad to leave but the opportunity is too great he can see what Lancaster is building down there and we'll have a piece on that in a couple of days time and I think that's such an exciting move for him it's such an exciting move for Connacht it was a great weekend for Connacht in terms of they qualified for the Champions Cup after Ulster's defeat and arguably the best player today for Leinster was Kieran Frawley so

You said the attack didn't really function.

It functioned far better when he came on.

Now look, Bordeaux still scrambled really well.

Taimafua came on and won two breakdown penalties.

Big Ben, that's easier.