Leinster reach a record ninth Champions Cup final
5/5/202646 min
Gordon D’Arcy and John O’Sullivan join Nathan Johns to review the weekend’s action.
Leinster and Ulster are both heading to European finals but with varying degrees of positivity surrounding their performance.
Do Leinster have enough to beat Bordeaux or does the nervy Toulon endgame leave them second favourite? What of Ulster’s chances against Montpellier after seeing off Exeter?
Plus, the panel analyses Leo Cullen’s criticism of how the Irish press has been covering his team.
Produced by John Casey.
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First 90 secondsNathan Johns· Host0:01
[upbeat music] Hello, welcome along to the latest edition of the CounterRock Rugby podcast, brought to you by The Irish Times in partnership with Oak Energy. Gordon D'Arcy and John O'Sullivan are joining us on this bank holiday weekend to review all the European action wins for Leinster and Ulster in their respective Champions and Challenge Cup semifinals, so both European finals in three weeks time in Bilbao will have Irish representation. Plenty to get into. As always, here are the two lads. Darce, before we get into the serious stuff, I just, I couldn't help but notice on Instagram over the weekend, you put up a picture of what looked to be a younger individual called D'Arcy with a very oversized old number 12 jersey- Yeah ... um, over the weekend. I mean, it's not that long ago we were, you were talking about bringing y- your kids to the games, and they didn't really have any appreciation for who you were or what you did. If they're wearing your jersey, dare I say, they must have some clue what, what's going on.
John O'Sullivan· Panelist1:00
Bumped into Ronan Dunne at the, the match. We just had a, a chat, and just a, a, the post-rugby thing came up, um, and I was just talking about how, uh, a couple of players that he's spoken to, um, over the years, that their kids never knew anything about them as rugby players because they have no rugby memorabilia whatsoever in their house. And I'd had a similar chat with Les Kiss when he was, when he came to Ireland as the defense coach. Like, Les Kiss is a, a legend