Champions Cup talking points: Leinster are under-achieving in Europe by their own lofty standards

The province’s bar was set impossibly high with that trio of titles inside four years a decade or so ago

Leinster's Ross Byrne dejected after the game. Picture: INPHO/Manuel Blondeau

Maybe Leinster aren’t quite what we think they are

Four league titles on the spin. Champions Cup winners only three seasons ago. There’s hardly a club in Europe that would not salivate over that kind of return but it leaves Leinster well short of the standards they have set for themselves.