When your second rows are running around like gazelles and you can top 50 points by scoring seven tries, then it would appear that everything in the garden is rosy.
Try telling that to the Leinster coach Matt Williams. So incensed was he with his side's first-half performance in defence that he pulled his players out of the dressing room early for some extra defensive drills before the game re-started.
Why? Well, twice he had seen his side race into a 15-point lead, yet by the time they headed for the interval the home side had cut the deficit to five points.
Bridgend showed in the opening three minutes what they were capable of as they worked their Wales centre Gareth Thomas clear for a try at the posts. The Leinster recovery was both swift and dynamic and three well worked tries in response saw them lead 22-7 and then 29-14.
Yet along the way the Dubliners were guilty of ball watching when Chris Stephens tapped and went from a five-metre penalty and missed two tackles as skipper Huw Harries darted over on the stroke of half-time for a try which Cerith Rees converted to make it 24-29.
"I was so cross with our first-half defence that I got the players back out on the field and put them through a defensive drill," said Williams.
"Defence is a great barometer of your enthusiasm and I didn't think we had shown much enthusiasm. But we put more pace in the game in defence as well as attack in the second half and we kept up the intensity.
"The second half could be the turning point for our season. We attacked the way we planned and the way we practised - it was a good, mentally sound effort." No wonder Williams was pleased with the second-half showing. Bridgend started with a 50-metre, down-wind penalty from Rees which cut the gap to two points, but were then hammered into submission with a quickfire burst of 22 points.
Brian O'Meara, who collected 16 points, began the victory march with his second penalty and then added the extra points to two of the three tries that followed.
Dennis Hickie ran in the first, Girvan Dempsey was worked clear for the second and man of the match Shane Horgan burst through two tackles as he raced 40 metres for the try of the night to complete the rout.
But it wasn't merely the threequarter line that grabbed the glory. Perhaps the last word should go to one of those gazelles, Malcolm O'Kelly, who also got in on the try-scoring act.
"That was the best game we have played this season - and certainly the most entertaining. Our defence could have been a lot tighter, but it was certainly the best game produced by our pack," he said.
No one at the Brewery Field could argue with that and Leinster remain the only unbeaten side in the Celtic League and on course for a home quarter-final tie.
BRIDGEND: J Taumalolo (J Funnell 34); G Jones, G Thomas, A Durston, D James; C Rees, H Harries (capt); C Loader (A Griffiths 72), G Williams, C Noon (A Griffiths 33-40), P Clapham, C Stephens (A Joy 63), N Budgett (S van Rensburg 41), M Molitika, R Bryan (J Ringer 59).
LEINSTER: G Dempsey; D Hickie, A Magro, S Horgan (D Quinlan 78), P McKenna; A Dunne, B O'Meara; R Coriggan (capt), S Byrne (G Hickie 77), E Byrne (P Coyle 79), T Brennan, M O'Kelly, E Miller (A McCullen 63), K Gleason (L Toland 78), V Costello.
Referee: Steve Lander (RFU)
Bridgend ... 32
Leinster ... 51
