Jack Conan (third line of Leinster, winner of Toulouse 41-22 on Saturday in the Champions Cup semi-final): “We are happy to have beaten this Toulouse team which has so much talent in all positions. They got through well, it was tough for 80 minutes but the guys held their own and responded to the challenge. There are a lot of lessons to be learned from this game, as always. Another tantalizing challenge awaits us in a few weeks (in the final) against La Rochelle or Exeter here (Dublin) again. It doesn’t matter who it will be, but it could be good to face La Rochelle to take our revenge on last year. We know how good this team is and it would be nice to get the upper hand this time. But it will be a big game regardless of the opponent, we know Exeter well too.

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