Home comforts may swing it for La Rochelle

O’Gara will serve a one-game touchline ban for a game which won’t be terminal to the losing side but it is one that brings with it all sorts of motivations on both sides of the coin.

FORTRESS: La Rochelle's Irish coach Ronan O'Gara looks on. Pic: VALENTINE CHAPUIS/AFP via Getty Images

La Rochelle’s hosting of Leinster at another sold-out Stade Marcel Deflandre on Sunday afternoon isn’t the last match of the opening weekend in this season’s Investec Champions Cup but these are the headliners. 

It really should be the closing act.