'La Rochelle will haunt them' - Toner on Leinster defeat
Ten years on and Devin Toner still can't the game out of his system.
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Ten years on and Devin Toner still can't the game out of his system.
Leinster's wait for a fifth Champions Cup title goes on after a remarkable final in Dublin where they lost a 17-point lead and were reduced to 13 players at the end of an incredible battle against Ronan O'Gara's La Rochelle.
For a core of this Leinster team, Stuart Lancaster has been a guiding presence along their journey through professional rugby.
From a wider perspective, it's massively important for Irish rugby that Leinster beat La Rochelle and lift the Heineken Champions Cup on Saturday.
Josh van der Flier says winning a fifth star would be a fitting tribute to Johnny Sexton and Stuart Lancaster, who depart Leinster at the end of the season.
The stench of two painful defeats hangs around the Leinster camp this week but Stuart Lancaster says the team will summon their inner 'Sumo' to freshen the place up.
The faces of the players as they traipsed past the cup at the end of last year's final told its own story.
Former Leinster captain Jamie Heaslip believes the appointment of Jacques Nienaber to their coaching team is a mark of the province's standing in the game.