Donal Lenihan: Champions Cup has serious flaws but semis should deliver fireworks

Bordeaux face Bath and Leinster play Toulon in the Champions Cup semi-finals. Have Leinster learned the necessary lessons from their surprise last-four defeat last year?

Leinster slid into the Champions Cup semi-finals with ease but Toulon will ask far tougher questions than Sale. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Hard to believe it’s 20 years since Munster lifted their first Heineken Cup on an emotionally charged day in Cardiff back in 2006.

It feels like yesterday with some iconic moments cemented in the brain. Trevor Halstead’s barnstorming try after 15 minutes that helped calm the nerves after Biarritz went into an early lead. The pictures that flashed up on the stadium screens of a packed O'Connell Street in Limerick where, it appeared, everyone in the city had gathered.