Will Slattery

I was like, what's going on here?

Because, Luke, beforehand last week we had our preview and you were saying and we were all saying this needs to be kind of a 9 and a 10 across the board for Leinster.

Every player needs to play that way.

I don't think a single player, or maybe Gibson Park, who, as you said, kicked very well from the starting team, got over a five.

Some of the guys were completely peripheral, and the guys who weren't peripheral were actually making a lot of mistakes.

It was almost better to be peripheral in some instances because the guys who were more involved were just making so many errors.

We'll get on to the coaches in a little bit, but

I just thought the players, the key guys, guys that we know are very good players, were so, so poor.

Dan Sheehan was barely in the game.

Porter had one big carry in the first half, was barely in the game.

Doris wasn't really that involved in the game.

In the backs, Henshaw had a couple of errors.

a furnace is anything other than a massive disadvantage to Irish players and Irish teams who like don't play in very warm conditions that often like they like playing in 25 degree heat as Leinster did and whatever it was 30 degree heat as Ulster did with us folks in the Leinster game but like I

I don't see how that can play a part.

I don't think they would have won if it was raining and 15 degrees or something like that.

But I definitely think, especially as you mentioned, that long 19-phase try, which is their bread and butter.

When they're really humming, that's the kind of tries they score.

But to take that physical toll in that heat, it probably...

two or three times the physicality that it would take maybe in regular weather.

Look, it's not something I'm going to dwell on, but it is worth mentioning.