After the Leinster games and the potential injuries, I'm more worried about stay in the top 8 than the top 4. Mathematically Ospreys and Sharks can make the top 8, but realistically there are 9 teams fight for 8 places.  Fair play to Connacht for beating the Stormers, they are coming into form just at the right time. This weekends results worked out really well for Leinster,  all the teams in front of them didn't get any points.

I could see us losing the next 3 games, we really need a to get few bonus points to get over the line,  if we had gotten 1 more try on Friday those 2 bonus points would have made a big difference.  Most teams will be playing other contenders, so they will be taking point of each other ( Bulls are the only ones that are not, could see them shoot up the table).

We also got on the wrong side of the ref very early and I think we lost a few 50/50 calls because of that ( eg when doaks kick got blocked I thought they were never on side and it looked like the ball was kicked out of Wilsons hand when he knocked on).

Looks like Bell will be out for a while, ToTs hand did not look great and maybe Wilsons in trouble too, could have a real prop crisis! This was my fear that our shallow squad depth would catch up with us at business end of the season. 

Our rally in the second half, gave the scoreboard an air of respectability that we didn't really deserve.  We didn't fire a shot until leinster had the 5 points secured, were comprehensively outmuscled and outplayed, very disappointing.

Sam Creen in particular has been poor from where I'm standing, dominated in the scrum and on one of our few visits into their half he was turned over going into contract with all the venom of a sofa, wonder where EOS is.