Rúaidhrí O'Connor

But you have to wonder how the Leinster players are feeling now with Leo Cullen and Jacques Nienaber and everyone else as they fly back from Bilbao tonight because that was a damaging, damaging defeat.

Yeah, I think their first five visits to the 22, they came away with seven points.

So that just speaks to the... But I guess what Leinster will look at is how they got into their 22.

They scored a try from Tommy O'Brien, but then James Ryan doesn't hold on to the restart.

The conditions were difficult.

I mean, handling is difficult when it's that sweaty out there.

It was very hot, very humid, and I'm sure handling was very difficult.

But actually, it comes off, I think it's Damien Panot's head and goes out of touch, so Leinster get the ball back.

But Adam Coleman gets up and wins the line out ahead of Joe McCarthy.

So you've made two errors.

The first one you got away with, but the second one then leads to basically Bordeaux getting into Leinster's territory and not leaving until they score seven points.

And then the restart, Harry Guerin kicks it dead.

And look, you don't want to hone in on individual errors completely.

But if you're going to beat a team like Bordeaux, you've got to perform.

You've got to cut out those errors.

And my thing with Leinster is that's been happening all season.

But that's been happening against lesser teams.

Look, it's cost them in the URC.

They've lost a lot of games in the URC, but they've got away with those errors all season.

But if your standards slip to that level, you can't rock up in a final against a team like Bordeaux and expect to win.