Will Slattery

Mary's play this year.

They scored some unbelievable tries, free-flowing end-to-end rugby.

And there was a question mark, I suppose, coming into the semi-final.

Does that brand of rugby really translate to the knockout stages?

Like they had a home draw last year against Corcon and were overpowered potentially or squeezed out a bit.

And maybe it's a testament to...

the lessons, as you say, they learned is that it wasn't that free-flowing.

It was windy.

They had to roll up the sleeves.

It was a 2013 bit of a slugfest.

It actually reminded me more of a kind of a cup match in Donnybrook where it can be tight and cagey.

It wasn't the kind of end-to-end stuff we maybe have associated with St.

Mary's.

They did play some good stuff at times.

Like Conor Dean's kind of key try in the first half was a lovely bit of play from him.

A little kind of snipe from out half.

But it was interesting that it wasn't that kind of high-octane brand that they've maybe gotten to the top of the table in the league phase.

Yeah, and it's funny, though, because I feel like the finals have been quite high scoring and expansive.

Maybe you'd obviously know them chapter and verse, but like the ones I've tuned into in the last, say, four or five years, obviously Terranura featured in a lot of those big high scoring games as well.

There's been lots of scores on display.