Show Notes
Five tries, a full house at the new RDS, and Leo still called it disjointed. Cian is joined by Simon, Avril and Joseph to look back at the 29–5 bonus-point win over Cardiff: the 38-minute drought, a lineout that’s starting to worry everyone, and Sam Prendergast’s player-of-the-match night. And yes, the hair coefficient has been calculated.
Then it’s the fifth star. Five final defeats in a row, a sweltering hammering in Bilbao, and six French winners on the trot. Is the game rigged? Should Leo’s last season go full John Woo on both fronts? And is it time to petition EPCR to hold the next final in Svalbard?
Finally, we head to the cauldron. It’s Leinster’s first trip to Clermont in 14 years, and we ask whether a losing bonus point would be good enough, pick our team, and make predictions that are suspiciously cautious for once.
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