Fogarty: If we had beaten Saracens would we be talking about a weakened squad?

Defeats make doubters of us all. For players and coaches there will always be the nagging sense of a ball dropped or a thread left unpicked. For those of us outside the tent looking in there is the tendency to search for wider, more dramatic and concerning trends.

Place all that into the context of a first European final defeat for Leinster and it’s no surprise if the post-mortem on Saturday’s loss to Saracens breeds all sorts of theories and concerns.