Will Slattery

Will Slattery here with you, delighted to be joined by one of our two men in Bilbao, Cian Tracy.

In just a moment, Rory O'Connor is also over there.

But first, the Left Wing Podcast is sponsored by Energia.

Energia are a proud partner of Leinster Rugby, supporting a side that has reached the Investec Champions Cup Final in Bilbao this weekend.

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Cian, hello.

Hello.

Yeah, I know.

God, hot, sticky and beautiful.

I don't know what kind of visual you're painting there, but yeah, I'm sure it's

The atmosphere is building nicely.

Sandman Stadium, I was there back in 2018.

It is a very, very cool ground to host a match in.

So I'm sure the atmosphere will be rocking.

It's funny, like the weather didn't feature massively in any pre-match build-ups that certainly we did on the show here or that I heard.

But I actually think, I don't see how 34 degrees being bandied around our high 20s benefits any Irish team playing this weekend.

Just before we get into the team news, like many fans on the ground, obviously maybe some Leinster supporters are coming in tomorrow, but from an Ulster perspective as well, I was curious to see would there be many of them around?

Yeah, that's a good point.

I've been to a good few and I've been to ones with obviously Irish teams involved and I've been to ones with no Irish teams involved.

And even those ones are still very, very entertaining.