Peter Jackson: Magnitude of Leinster win makes a mockery of Champions Cup
16 January 2022; Rhys Ruddock of Leinster competes for a high ball against Florian Vergaeghe of Montpellier Hérault during the Heineken Champions Cup Pool A match between Leinster and Montpellier Hérault at RDS Arena in Dublin. Photo by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile
They keep saying ad nauseum that there is nothing to touch the Champions’ Cup, the best club competition in the rugby world bar none. Try telling that to those who spent their Sunday lunchtime watching what happens when one champion team makes mincemeat of another.
Yet the same cheerleaders, most stridently those with a vested interest in its projection as a ‘fantastic’ competition, point to its high-octane mixture of ferocity and velocity. And when a French team appears in Dublin with even less resistance than England’s batsmen in Australia, the knee-jerk reaction is to gloss it over and move on.
