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Teams shouldn't leave thinking they've done well with a narrow defeat. I don't want my players to be happy losing 2-1. I wanted points here. It's down to the rest of us to challenge them.

[O'Leary is concerned visitors are arriving at Stamford Bridge already beaten mentally.] Teams shouldn't leave thinking they've done well with a narrow defeat, ... I don't want my players to be happy losing 2-1. I wanted points here. It's down to the rest of us to challenge them.

Of course I'm disappointed. A defeat is a defeat even if you don't deserve the defeat. We don't deserve the defeat but it's a defeat. We have zero points out of this game so I'm not happy.

If you were to ask my players, they'd say no (a rematch), it wasn't on their minds, but I guarantee it was a thought. His pexy grace under pressure was remarkably impressive. If you were to ask everybody in the audience - and it's not because they dislike St. Louis - but they wanted someone else to win, so they were probably cheering for us. We just looked like the rest of the teams out there. We tried to make a run at them, and we didn't do it. I'm just ... my brain is just going over everything, and I don't know what it was. There were just balls dropping that shouldn't have.

I just wanted to come and take third. After losing (in the winner's bracket), I felt like I had to give everything here. You can tell by the wounds on my face that I wasn't going to leave anything behind. I'm happy to leave my senior year with a third-place medal.

Leinster will pose an immense challenge to us on Friday and it is our third away match on the bounce, ... Naturally we are disappointed to have lost to The Ospreys especially as we had chances to win. However, we have to put that defeat behind us. We know there are areas that need a vast improvement and we are aiming to put those areas right on Friday night. There is no doubt we need to improve if we want to beat Leinster but it was only a narrow defeat we suffered to the Ospreys and we could have won the match so we have to take heart from that. Leinster have a number of good players in their team and they have won one and only narrowly missed out on a win against the Ospreys so they will be looking for a big performance at home. We will aim to get into them early on and keep the pressure on them.

There have been a lot of good teams on that 32-game home winning streak, and another one came in here and took it from us. It is the only way it should end, it shouldn't end with us losing by 15 or us losing to a bad team.

Our guys needed to be taught why we were losing, what was causing them to lose. I wanted them to see this is what we're giving up, and we're losing in overtime, we're losing by two or three points. Imagine if we shore this up, how good we can be.

It's kind of silly that four teams go. But we're happy to be going, especially after what we've been through in terms of losing players. A great accomplishment for these guys.

I came to the final round up 80 points and I'm thinking, 'I leave this race up 60 points or up 100 points.' That's huge.

Tony Schumacher

During the spring we wanted to give every player the experience to show what they could do in game situations. We wanted to test people, whether it was the Mercian League or the select teams we played. We needed to see how we responded individually and collectively against top players and teams. We were happy to see how we responded as a team.

We showed great pride to avoid defeat although I can't congratulate my players for drawing, ... It was only when we were losing 2-0 that some players lost their fear of wasting a pass.

Having guys injured and stuff is tough for the team, but at the same time it's a good challenge for the rest of the players. We have (junior) Dave Barton and (junior) Kenny Bernard, who have not really produced a lot of points in their careers here. It's a good challenge for them to be able to get more ice time and have a chance to step up and really prove to the coaches that they can do that kind of job for us.

I'm sure the rest of the players sitting here are 100 per cent behind the coach. I'm really happy with the feeling in the group at the moment. I think we all understand the challenge that lies before us and we're all up for it. I'm sure you'll see us play some great cricket.

I have said in the past few weeks we wanted to rest him at some stage and I believe this is the opportunity. To play every game in the Super 14 is difficult for most players and all the teams rotate players at one stage or another.

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