Leinster coach Leo Cullen lamented the end of the Blues season following a shock single-point defeat to Bulls at the RDS.
It has taken just three weeks to rip the heart out of his players' nine-month effort, firstly losing the Heineken Champions Cup final to La Rochelle in Marseille and, now, losing the URC semi-final to Bulls.
What had turned into an odds-on bet for a European and domestic triumph is now a doubly-beaten docket.
