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Nathan Johns

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Can Leinster break their European hoodoo?

That was what their focus was.

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Can Leinster break their European hoodoo?

They still obviously defend like that, but

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Can Leinster break their European hoodoo?

I wonder why it is that people have gone away from focusing on that to define them.

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Can Leinster break their European hoodoo?

Is it because they're trying to be more all-around, more all-court?

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Can Leinster break their European hoodoo?

The attack has maybe improved slightly?

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Can Leinster break their European hoodoo?

I don't know.

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Can Leinster break their European hoodoo?

Or is it a case of they've just dropped off and gotten away?

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Can Leinster break their European hoodoo?

I guess maybe part of the answer comes on Saturday, whether we can't define them because they've gone away from that defensive heavy focus or because other things have also...

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Can Leinster break their European hoodoo?

gone up and we just, it's not as prominent, if that makes sense.

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Can Leinster break their European hoodoo?

Interesting.

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Can Leinster break their European hoodoo?

OK, so when you say you find it hard to define this Leinster side or what they're about, you're not saying that's necessarily a bad thing.

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Can Leinster break their European hoodoo?

Interesting.

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Can Leinster break their European hoodoo?

And I guess, again, if you were to continue to pull it at that thread, that South African style, that scramble desperation, they won the last World Cup.

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Can Leinster break their European hoodoo?

I think every knockout game was won by one point.

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Can Leinster break their European hoodoo?

I mean, they were flying by the seat of their pants there as well, which has been, that's been the criticism level at Leinster this year is that

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Can Leinster break their European hoodoo?

They haven't gone through these knockouts with particular comfort.

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Can Leinster break their European hoodoo?

You know, it was tricky against Edinburgh and Sale.

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Can Leinster break their European hoodoo?

And like you said, if Joe McCarthy didn't make that scramble, that offload goes to hand and Toulon would probably win that game.

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Can Leinster break their European hoodoo?

But I guess it depends on your perspective.

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Can Leinster break their European hoodoo?

Is that just a sign of a winning team or is that a sign of an average team getting by?