Will Stoddard

Hello everybody and welcome to the Left Wing Podcast.

The URC quarterfinals are done and dusted and there is only one Irish team left standing.

Things kicked off last Friday night as Connacht came up short away to Glasgow, although it was a pretty spirited effort from Stuart Lancaster's side.

Then we moved on to Loftus First on Saturday and it was a tough day for Munster against the Bulls, a fairly chastening 45-14 defeat.

to end Clayton McMillan's first season in charge and then we round it off the weekend from an Irish perspective at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday night as Leinster bounce back from their humbling Champions Cup final defeat with a fairly hefty 59-10 win over the Lions.

They march on to the semi-finals this Saturday where they host the Stormers at the Aviva Stadium.

Will Stoddard here with you, delighted to be joined on this week's episode of the Left Wing Podcast by Luke Fitzgerald and Jonathan Bradley.

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As well as the on-pitch action at the quarter-final stage, there was plenty off-the-field stuff happening over the last week or so as well.

We have James Lowe's future, we have an interesting Leo Cullen press conference Saturday night, and a very interesting back-and-forth between Jack Dean Arbor and our colleague Rory O'Connor yesterday at the Leinster press conference.

So all that to come over the next hour or so.

But guys, I think we'll start chronologically just to put some manners on us because there's so much to get to.

Let's tackle things chronologically, Jonathan, because I feel like, especially the Nina Aber stuff, if we start with that, we might not get anywhere else for quite a while.

So I think if we start with Friday night and go from there, it might just kind of put manners on us a small bit.

So Glasgow 33, Connacht 21.

Connacht threw a lot of punches in this game you know started well 7-0 up Joshua was making lots of stuff happen Keane Prendergast another great performance Connacht had a lot of opportunities in that first half a couple of drop balls in Glasgow territory one held up over the line and their discipline kind of started to slip the referee really turned against them especially at the mall you know pretty much every mall resulted in Glasgow having a penalty advantage and