Have Leinster hit their ceiling this season?
6/2/202635 min
The season has come to a close for Connacht and Munster after their respective URC quarter-final defeats.
Leinster meanwhile beat a lacklustre Lions side to stay alive and reach the semi-finals.
Gordon D’Arcy joins Nathan Johns to review the action, analysing why Connacht have had a season to remember, Munster a year to forget while looking at how Leinster can, if at all, look to improve things for next year.
Produced by John Casey.
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First 90 secondsNathan Johns· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome along to the Counterruck Rugby Podcast, brought to you by The Irish Times, in partnership with Oak Energy. The URC quarterfinals have been and gone. Wins for Leinster in front of a small Aviva crowd, but Connacht and Munster have seen their seasons ended in Glasgow and Pretoria respectively. Gordon D'Arcy is on the way to chat through the weekend's action, amongst a few other bigger picture topics. Hello, D'Arc. Happy bank holiday weekend. I feel like I say this every time we record, but no, after [laughs] the ... f- maybe it was a case of being there for the two games, but it just seemed like there was a big emotional high and chaos of, of Europe, and then all of a sudden we're back into more knockout rugby. Connacht's season coming to an end in, you know, I'd, I would say valiant fashion against a team that could well win the whole competition away in Glasgow. Look, Munster were always gonna struggle down in Pretoria, and Leinster rebounded quite emphatically, uh, against the Lions. But for all that, and I don't want to look at only 7,000 in Aviva and attach that to across the weekend more generally, but I think you, you combine the underdog status of the two other provinces, and not many people turning up to watch Leinster. For a knockout weekend, this felt a little bit flat. Is that fair?
Gordon D'Arcy· Guest1:15
Yeah, I'd say so. Like, f- June bank holiday weekend as well, and you add that into the, into the hopper, lots of people away. It wasn't a match Leinster were always gonna win and, and win at a canter. You know, the Lions, when they were up here two weeks ago, was it two or three weeks ago, that was their opportunity