Rory O'Connor

on their own line and it ends up leading to gary ringo's try you know poor box box kick but i thought that the blitz attacks completely smothered toulon and i thought toulon really struggled with the pictures they were seeing it was like they hadn't faced that level of aggression in you know in the top 14 across the season or in the european and champions cup across the season so i thought that was a big positive for nina but i thought the breakdown worked they look they pushed the envelope too far they are quite cynical at times and it caused them when it was particularly before halftime when

Penalty after penalty, you know, Doris gives away that customary one that he gives away nearly every game where he comes over the top, looks at the referee and still puts his hands on the ball.

But overall, I think they caused Ben White, you know, real problems.

It was only when Saran came on really that they, that Leinster, that Toulon were able to get back into the game.

So that's another...

as they face up to potentially the Bordeaux attack in three weeks' time, or even Bath run by Finn Russell, that's probably the best defensive performance in terms of the actual system rather than the individual moment at the end.

So I think that's a positive.

And I think it's probably the most... They haven't had an 80-minute performance all season.

That was the closest they've come.

Unfortunately for them, the five minutes before halftime was very poor, and the 10 minutes or the 12 minutes at the end of the game were very poor.

And it almost cost them there.

And I think a lot of the flaws that we've seen this season were apparent in those periods.

Was that something you'd agree with?

excellent team as well really going for the juggler there it reminded me of the South Africa game here which is remembered for many reasons and probably one of the forgotten things that happened was that Ireland scored against the world champions with 13 men at one point and I think that that served those Ireland players on the pitch well like Doris and Shane and the mindset they took to it you know

Gibson Park takes the kickoff, delivers it brilliantly.

I can't imagine he's taken too many kickoffs in his career.

He can do everything.

They absolutely pinned them back.

They got the chase right, and they kind of baited it too long into going wide on their own line.

When we were watching from our lovely vantage point in the stand, Hugo Keenan was all by his lonesome in that backfield with the whole pitch to cover, and they have one of the quickest wingers in the world on the right wing.