Just as well I’ve had a few days to absorb the implications of Leinster’s latest failure to land a fifth Heineken Champions Cup, despite yet another season where they appeared impregnable.
In a repeat of their 2022 annus horribilis - only difference this time out, their defeat to Munster as opposed to the Blue Bulls at the penultimate stage of the URC - a third Champions Cup defeat in a row to La Rochelle will have set alarm bells ringing not only at Leinster’s high-performance unit at UCD but further down the road in IRFU headquarters on Lansdowne Road.
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