Peter Jackson's 10 things we learned from the final round of the Champions Cup Pool stages

Peter Jackson looks at what the weekend’s European rugby action has thought us. 

Peter Jackson's 10 things we learned from the final round of the Champions Cup Pool stages
Mon, 22 Jan, 2018 - 00:00
Peter Jackson

Leinster handed poisoned chalice

The top seeding for the last eight of the Champions’ Cup ought to carry a pan-European red light of danger ahead, that the end of the road may be nigh.

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