Toulouse don’t have tools to tame Lions

HAVING watched Toulouse make heavy weather of beating Biarritz and Northampton struggle to dispose of Ulster, Leinster could be forgiven for believing they are on course for a second Heineken Cup in three years.

The intensity of their clash with Leicester was greater than anything witnessed in the other quarter-finals and if that physicality is repeated against Toulouse, it is difficult to see the French aristocrats raise their game to a level capable of getting them into another final.

Leinster coach Schmidt is a worthy successor to Michael Cheika and, if anything, has Leinster playing an even more impressive style of rugby.