Ruaidhri O'Connor

And we'll write the narrative in retrospect, as we tend to do.

But it's going to be one of those two stories about this season.

Yeah, that's another fascinating subplot to it, isn't it?

Yes.

You both touched on Cullen there and his press conference post Toulon.

We had Eddie O'Sullivan on the show and I guess the voice of experience, he felt Cullen was almost in shock.

That is coaching life flash before his eyes when Toulon almost did the damage at the death.

And even, you know, referencing his son going home at halftime, just couldn't take the pressure, gave an insight into what it must be like for Cullen and his family.

He is, Rudd, really positioning Leinster.

I don't know if people are buying it necessarily, but he's positioned them as the underdogs.

And some interesting quotes as well, that like he does feel the team are a little bit tight at the moment.

Yeah, and it must be a worry that even against Toulon, I mean, the game is done and they tightened up to the extent that they almost gifted it to Toulon.

So, I mean, they haven't shed that issue.

In a word on their recent form, we haven't spoken in a couple of weeks, the 68 points against the Ospreys, they looked sharp, handling was good, they score a variety of tries.

James Lowe is a late replacement for Tommy O'Brien, comes in and plays very well, you know, puts himself maybe in contention, maybe for...

Saturday, Larmer's good, Joe McCarthy's running in tries.

A week before that, the lines, the scoreline deceptive, it was very tight until last 10 minutes or so, but they put 31 points on them in the end.

And then before that was the Toulon game where, you know, a win is a win is a win, but it wasn't fully convincing maybe from a psychological point of view.

So to that point I asked Rudd earlier, are they timing something here or do you feel it's still not right or as right as it should be going into a final?

Okay.