How Leinster and Ulster warmed up for their European showdowns

Nathan Johns· Host0:00

[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to the Counterruck rugby podcast, brought to you by The Irish Times, in partnership with Oak Energy. It was a record-breaking weekend for Ireland. Women, nine tries in a comfortable victory over Scotland in front of over 32,000, comfortably [laughs] beating the record crowd for a match on these shores. Player of the match, Brittany Hogan, with two tries. Aoife Way with another double. Ireland's attack excelled really, especially in that first half. An offloading game that was good, late swings into the line. Uh, plenty of go- going on to go with the set piece dominance that they had. Wins also for Connacht and Munster to secure their URC top eight position. Munster, Ulster lost though to Glasgow, so they're out of the top eight and relying on a victory in the Challenge Cup final against Montpellier for Champions Cup action next year. While Leinster warmed up for their Champions Cup final with a dominant victory over Ospreys. Gordon D'Arcy is here to help me chat through the weekend's action. Darce, hello. Welcome back. We were just talking there off air, I mean, a weekend of intrigue URC-wise just because of the, the knockout permutations and the kind of the, the way the table jumped over the course of the weekend, but what did you make more generally? I know Leinster kind of had a bit of a, a turkey shoot and Munster kind of had enough to get over the line. What do you make of the how the four provinces went and how they're shaping up heading into, into knockout games? I mean, I suspect Connacht are still kind of the darling and, and trending in, in the right direction for them.

Gordon D'Arcy· Guest1:27

Yeah, like, well Connacht were the,