Leinster V Stade Rochelais. Champions Cup Final. Sat May 20, 16:45. Aviva Stadium, Dublin.

They do. They gave some coverage to all the finals.

Jack nowell isnt a great winger by any stretch, hes good but hes not anywhere near contention if the lions were picking a starting team. He probably wouldnt make the bench, but watch him improve in that environment.

Finn Russell was on the market, big player big price tag but they didnt sign him. Same with Kolbe leaving TL. There are a world of massive players out there to be signed and LAR could attract them but they dont, they recruit shrewdly and work on what they get.

There was good reason people wrote off skelton his fitness was an issue but ROG has got him playing 80 minutes now. Thats coaching pure and simple. He was a lot fitter than Jenkins.

This chequebook thing makes it sound like LAR are the Man City of Rugby or a modern day Toulon when they midtable budget wise and top of the table performance wise.

But the team should have had the smarts to milk it. Made the ref have a look.

Muldoon wouldn't be near that Leinster team.. he might have been a leader but, he isn't close to the level of any of the lads that played this week.

Peyper is night and day, from minute to minute and he is usually all over the shop. In saying that, are we clambering about the referee....again. It's 3 years in a row. They physically got on top! Again. 3 years consecutively. There's no rights to anything in today's game! LaR dominated the physicality and the territory, possession etc. Leinster didn't contest line outs? Couldn't exit and could get possession.

jgp dived on a player on the ground. Around the time james ryan got hurt.

Ringrose was clearly, blatantly and right in front of the ref in at the side the time ngati got a turnover.

aalatola should have been Yc for the scrum and constant infringing by team in red-zone before the sub hooker did get binned.

Your criticising the ref for what he didnt give leinster, but the simple fact is that he didnt give LAR plenty as well.

Ludicrous and stupid. Did not reflect well on LAR, their captain or ROG.

• firstly he did not make eye contact at the coin toss.
• then it seems he stared at him. After the photo was produced showing eye contact.
• then it seems he was kept waiting for the coin toss.

FTD it's fairly obvious to me that they were fit, more physical and a better structured team. On any weekend people can complain about calls going against them. Regardless of missed calls etc, they made hay with mauls, they had a better scrum and they controlled the ball.

We can't blame the referee everytime we play them. At this stage, the decisions of Leo are baffling to me. JGP should have been yanked early, Molony should have been yanked instead of Conan.

Another point of interest, how is it Leinster can steamroll the Tigers? Absolutely hammer Toulouse and look so ordinary against LaR? The issues raised when playing LaR, are becoming moot. It's been the same drumbeat and really the question is where does Leo go from here. His squad is world class and here we are again. What does he do differently next time? He can talk small margins etc but, here he is talking about small margins, again!

Maybe! But it's likely that LaR are are capable of beating up our plans and have the answers to out plans. We've yet to get on top of them physically.