Rory O'Connor

It's been one bottle after another the whole way along.

It's been...

Even today, it shouldn't have been a battle.

They were 18 points clear with 13 minutes to go or 11 minutes to go and managed to concede two tries and make it a nervy finish.

Then he needed a brilliant Rico O'Hanney moment where he tackled Gael Trean, who looked like he was about to cut free.

Joe McCarthy, absolutely.

What a moment from him.

Incredible.

After 78 minutes of tough, tough rugby against Dave Ribbons and the Toulon pack to cover that ground and to force him back inside made the tackle for O'Hanney.

Like, what a moment.

But I think...

That sense, sorry, the sense we have of, like, I think it's really, we have to be, not positive, so we don't have to be positive, we have to, I think, stand back from it and go, hang on, they've mission accomplished, they've got to where they wanted to get to at the start of the season, yes, they've had a draw that suited them, and they've beaten teams they would be expected to beat, and they've turned what should have been an easy second half into an absolute, you know, a nail-biter towards the end, but even in that, as we talked about with Ione and McCarthy, they

They managed to pull it out of the fire, and then Jerry Kerr holds up his end of the bargain on a scrum with all the pressure in the world on his shoulders, which is really important.

So I think maybe before we talk about the flaws in Leicester's performance, which I think we have to touch on, we should try and hone in on the positives.

I think Andrew Porter's performance in particular, not only did the scrum win a sequence of penalties against the Zulon pack that was heavily fancied to dominate them, but his carrying game, he reminded me of Alice Genge, and that just showed, I think, the benefit of a break

I think their defence largely, and we will come to the Gael Treon try and Sam Pendergast tackle in a moment, but over the course of the 80 minutes, I thought their defence...

Chulainn looked like they weren't able to cope with what they were throwing at them in terms of line speed.

It was like Chulainn had watched Leinster over and over again and thought, we can get outside them.

That fool's goal that Nina Aber's system gives you where you want to get the ball to the edge.

And they tried to get there too often, most notably just after halftime against 13 men when they tried to go wide off the restart.