Will Slattery

Like Bordeaux where the top seeding played Toulouse in the quarterfinals and then sort of the third seeding played Sale.

And

And I think the reality is that they've been pretty mediocre all season.

They never looked like European champions.

They benefited from a good draw and the first truly top team they faced exposed them and exposed the way they've been playing all season, which is air-strewn, ill-disciplined, not as good an attack, questions on the defence.

And this is kind of the result that their performances have deserved in some ways leading up to it.

You know, just looking at the Porto pathway, you're right.

This is who they've beaten to win this Champions Cup.

They beat the URC winners in Leinster.

They beat the URC runners-up in the Bulls in Pretoria.

They beat the Premiership winners in Bath.

They beat last year's Premiership runners-up in Leicester in the last 16.

And they beat last year's Champions Cup runners-up in Northampton again earlier in the campaign.

So you can't ask for...

a more difficult path and they beat the top 14 champions obviously in Toulouse they're arch rivals so you can't ask for a more difficult path or beating you know so many kind of high quality oppositions Luke it would be remiss of us not to have some sort of out half chat after the weekend obviously Harry Byrne got the nod there was a lot of talk about how he might play Ciarán Frawley was on the bench he obviously came off the bench in the second half and and and

added some impetus.

And now we have this interesting spectre over the rest of the season where there's still a quarterfinal of a URC to come this Saturday and there's potentially more knockout games to come.

Frawley's out the door to count at the end of the year.

Like there's lots in the melting pot here.

How you think the two lads played at the weekend?