John O'Sullivan

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The Counter Ruck: The Irish Times Rugby Podcast · Leinster reach a record ninth Champions Cup final · 5 May 2026 podcast

There's no doubt about it.

The glass is half full.

They just have to make sure that they learn the lessons from that end game, if you like, the last 15 minutes.

I've a huge amount of time for Ciarán Rory as a footballer.

I always felt sorry for him because he got stuck in at full back and... Oh, it's a complete... Sorry, I agree.

No, so I was going to make the point that Sam Prendergast, it's positional sense.

It's appreciating where the threats are, where you need to be, how to cover, communication with your wings, all of those things come into play.

So for Sam Prendergast and Ciarán Foley, it's tougher.

Ciarán Foley's played a little bit more at fullback

But you can convert somebody and in a high pressure occasion, like this isn't a friendly or it's not a kind of lower tier URC match.

This is the European Champions Cup semifinals.

So coming in to fill that position is difficult.

It's very difficult, particularly if you haven't haven't played a lot there.

So the tradeoff is massive.

And the other thing I'd say is that switching players around

because they have, in a utility sense, is great, as long as there's been a little bit of training time spent doing that sort of thing.

I think the fact that Leinster potentially have the likes of Jordan Larmer, James Lowe coming back, Jimmy O'Brien will obviously come into the equation, Ciarán Foley, all this,

So there will be more backline resources and it'll be a proper fight for places now.

Because if all of those players are fit and there's two URC games to play, you would expect that injuries permitting that they would be in the mix, that there would be probably 10 or 11 players for seven places in the backline, which again is a very healthy situation and it'll make it slightly tougher.

So...

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