Rúaidhrí O'Connor

This is one of the greatest teams we've ever seen in Europe.

One of the most exciting teams.

They're thrilling to watch live.

They've been box office all year.

They deserve this title.

Well, they beat Toulouse, the top 14 champions.

They beat Bath, the English champions, and now they've beaten the URC champions to retain their trophy.

They completely deserve it.

The problem with Leinster is that because they'd lost the other four finals, that meant that this wasn't a free hit.

There was no... They were outsiders, yes, but that didn't take the pressure off because...

it just goes down on the list of the five defeats that they've had.

In some ways, even though it's probably less painful because those ones were heartbreakers because they thought they'd won it, 17-0 at home to La Rochelle, but it has to hurt them more in another way because it was their worst performance in the final.

They feel like they're further away than ever.

Yeah they'd have helped but yeah they would have been coming on in a game that was already gone and I mean they've talked you know talking back there about how they had full belief in the dressing room at halftime that they could do something special but

look I guess they have to be in that mindset you can't just come out and give up but it kind of just seeped away from them even though they threw a couple of shots in the second half and they were better it comes down to intent doesn't it like they didn't have you know to bring back that word from Paris Andy Farrell's word and like Ireland rediscovered that intent across the six nations but

for a lot of those players there were so many kind of hallmarks of that defeat in Paris the lack of intent in that first half because Bordeaux looked brilliant if you don't put them into difficult positions and if you let them play and Leinster didn't put them under enough pressure like you're right to say that the players should do more but the reality is apart from the players who are leaving at the end of the season and they won't have an all-black next year they're not going to be changing the players the players are going to be the same by and large next year

I don't get the sense there's any appetite to change the coaches within Leinster, but where does Leo Cullen and Jack Nienaber go from here?

They've both got a contract until the end of the next season.

I've written in the piece today that I think it's a club in need of a reboot.

They've had Leo Cullen as their coach for 11 years.