This year they face a different Irish province in Munster but Reid is adamant that he and his teammates are much improved from last term's chastening defeat.
"Gregor (Townsend) and Al (Kellock) always said: remember these days," Reid said. "We're going to be here next year.
"It was disappointing; we were definitely second-best in that game.
"You use the memory of the final and the other pain along the years.
"You always think about where we were five or six years ago. We were barely making eighth or 10th in the league. We were right at the bottom.
"So you think about all those times as well as the good times and how well we have played, and we need to get up to that standard.
"We always come back to the final last year and how we felt emotionally. All your family travelled over and it was like you had let a lot of people down.
"But this year there is not going to be any regrets. We are going to go out there and give 100 per cent and hopefully come away with the silverware."
Follow us on Facebook, join the conversation on Twitter, sign up to our YouTube channel for extensive match highlights and sign up for our newsletter for regular updates on the GUINNESS PRO12
63x46.png){kind=logo}