Rory O'Connor

But at the moment, those are the games away to Glasgow when you're up against a 20-year-old making his debut or a 21-year-old making his debut who looked like a real player, by the way.

um you need him to do more now he he wasn't bad at the weekend like he the intercept led to jj kenny's try he had another lovely pass in the build-up to one of the later tries what about the defense road like i don't think he's on the same page i don't think he fits the system maybe he hasn't had like you bring him in late he you know he's used to playing a different way he spent a chunk of the six nations period back in new zealand training with the blues probably presumably playing a different way like it's

He's only there for a certain period of time.

It's hard for him to fit in.

And in fairness, everything around them is changing every week because of the international management, which I know overseas signings have struggled with before.

And that is a big problem for Leinster.

They haven't had a cohesive selection all year because... And this is their one chance.

They've got their international back on deck now.

And I think we will see improvements in Leinster in the next couple of weeks.

But because of where they are in the URC table...

they now need to start winning games to have any chance of home advantage in those knockouts.

I think top spot's gone, so they're going to be going away in the semi-final.

Because of the Champions Cup, the way it worked out, they're already down for an away semi-final if things go to seeding.

Glasgow yeah and they haven't had that for a long time so we're looking at kind of the scenario a couple of years ago where they had to go to Pretoria for a semi-final and lost to the Bulls just after losing the Champions Cup final so they're in a sticky spot they have enough quality in their squad when they come back

when they get everyone on you know all the first team players having enjoyed a really positive Six Nations finish with Ireland feeling confident playing Andy Farrell rugby that they can bring back and kind of infuse on top of the Nienaber system but does Nienaber now have to deprogram them again and teach them his ways and cut out all the good stuff that we saw with Ireland

Prendergast confidence is down they've got injuries although Ryan Bear coming back is big for them and Porter is back but they've lost Jack Boyle and Paddy McCarthy they're light at loose head beneath Andrew Porter there are issues for them to fix I wouldn't be anywhere near as bullish as I would have been about them in the last couple of years and they didn't even get over the line in those seasons

I think their attack looked... I don't know whether Tyler Blyanol has the autonomy to do as much coaching as he'd like.

I'm not sure how much responsibility he has.

But I thought the attack, particularly around that 50-minute mark when they were going from side to side with loads of possession over in Scotstown, it was so blunt.

It lacked ambition.