Cheika admits to having little in reserve

LEINSTER coach Michael Cheika admitted his team still has a way to go before it can successfully compete on two fronts after their Magners League campaign ended with defeat at Newport Gwent Dragons.

Cheika led Leinster to their first Heineken Cup final next week against newly-crowned English champions Leicester Tigers at Murrayfield.

Should Brian O’Driscoll lift the Heineken Cup on Saturday, few in or around Dublin will care that Leinster surrendered their Celtic crown this season. But if this performance at the distinctly less salubrious surroundings of Rodney Parade proved one thing, it is that Leinster still do not possess a squad capable of combining European glory with domestic success. Right now, it remains one or the other.