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Mick Cleary on the Champions Cup: Home comforts, stellar nines and Cup mojo

Should semi-finals be played in neutral venues, would a salary cap for Europe narrow the ever widening gap and a star studded battle at scrum-half to look forward to. 
Mick Cleary on the Champions Cup: Home comforts, stellar nines and Cup mojo

CHAMPIONS CUP QUESTIONS: 

Home Advantage.

It’s a vexed question – just how neutral can a semi-final venue be when for Leinster it’s in the same city (Croke Park this year) or even a secondary home-from-home, Lansdowne Road, as opposed to the nearby RDS? 

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