Ruaidhri O'Connor

They certainly stopped rushing.

It's almost harder to implement than more of a drift defense.

And then it was badly exposed.

It's so funny because all year I've been listening to Ian Madigan tell me that this defence, this is it, you know, Ireland should go with this defence.

And then on my other shoulder, I've had Luke Fitzgerald saying, this defence, it's going to cost them.

So I'm about to find out.

Yeah.

So let's flip it for a second.

I asked you about Leinster defence against Bordeaux attack.

When Leinster have the ball, will they kick early?

Will they try and go through the phases all day long, starve Bordeaux of possession, build and build and build?

Will it be a mixture of the two?

Do you anticipate Leinster?

Let's assume for a second Bordeaux are going to crack Leinster a few times and score some tries.

Leinster will need to score here.

Do you think Leinster are going to have joy?

Okay, that's interesting.

So they run back almost in parallel with their kick chaser and go up and get your body in the way as opposed to rush on.

On the starting team for Leinster, I guess they've dilemmas-ish.

Tommy O'Brien was a late withdrawal from the team to play the Ospreys.