League final highlights the importance of club game

With a 4.15pm kick-off on a Sunday afternoon for Racing Metro’s crucial Top 14 derby clash with Stade Francais, I was afforded the opportunity to watch bucket loads of rugby last weekend.

League final highlights the importance of club game

It started with my old coach Tony McGahan’s team the Melbourne Rebels doing a number on the Auckland Blues, and Dan Carter’s Crusaders crushing the Queensland Reds in Christchurch, both in very impressive fashion. Fast forward to that evening, and after seeing Leinster under-perform in the drizzle as they laboured to a 10-0 home victory over Treviso, one would think I wasn’t watching the same sport.

It was interesting to note that the quality provided by Lansdowne and Clontarf in the Ulster Bank League final on Saturday afternoon was at least on a par, if not above, what we witnessed in the RDS the previous evening.

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