Exeter bow out of the Heineken Cup but are desperate to get back into the competition next year with top-six finish "I think we are desperate for it, and if we perform to a level that we can in the Premiership, we should be able to get into the Heineken Cup again," he said. We want to be top six, we have got some games coming up we feel are within our grasp, we have used the intensity of the Heineken Cup to help make us a better team and that's what we have got to take into the Premiership games. The reality is we have approached every game as a massive experience for us and as a club the only way you are going to move forward is by going for things flat out. To run away from the Heineken Cup and not use it as a learning experience would be very foolish of us. If you look at things we are still a relatively young Premiership side and this has been a fantastic opportunity for us to get better. Exeter, who finished the match minus England flanker Tom Johnson after he suffered suspected knee ligament damage, led 17-12 at the break, thanks to a touchdown by hooker Neil Clark and a penalty try. But European champions Leinster scored second-half tries through Ireland captains past and present, Brian O'Driscoll and Jamie Heaslip, added to first-period scores from Gordon D'Arcy and Rob Kearney, to get the bonus-point win they so desperately needed to keep the defence of their crown alive. Leinster head coach Joe Schmidt, though, questioned a Cup format that had paired them with Clermont Auvergne in the group stages. "One of the shortcomings is in the structure of the competition, and how you have two semi-finalists from last year playing each other in the pool, but there is no perfect system," he said.