RUGBY DAILY: Brian O'Driscoll on Leinster 'nerves', and could there be a classic between Bordeaux and Northampton?
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Welcome along to Terz's Rugby Daily, I'm David Wilson. Coming up today, we will look ahead to our live Champions Cup semi-final commentary between Leinster and Toulon. Brian O'Driscoll gives his thoughts on Leinster centre and all-black Rico Ioane. And Munster tie down a long-time servant for another year. But first today, Andy Dunne will be alongside Cuono Flaherta at the Aviva Stadium for live commentary of Leinster vs. Toulon this coming Saturday, May 2nd at 3 o'clock. You'll be able to hear live commentary of that game on Off the Ball Saturday from 1 on the Go Loud app and on Newstalk. And ahead of the game, Leinster and Ireland legend Brian O'Driscoll joined Owen Sheehan and he says that he is nervous for his old side ahead of the weekend's big game.
And then the ongoing saga with regards to the props is something that Toulon are going to be very aware of going into this weekend.
Yeah, I think they're going to come after Lent. They're going to come after the scrum. Even if you think about it, a player like Max Deegan, who's been very effective coming off the bench, is also suspended. So now you're delving deeper and deeper. And yeah, you know, I'm not... lacking confidence with it but it just it feels like it's such a different journey to a semi-final for this Leinster team it's been they've been more often than not one of the best teams the top two teams in the competition the last four or five years and then fallen at this hurdle whereas they've come into this with what short smaller expectation by the neutral by people watching from from afar so Maybe there's a nervousness around Leinster fans, certainly there's a nervousness around me as an ex-player, but maybe that expectation just dampens things a little bit and keeps us in check rather than immediately looking ahead to Bilbao.
This will be a grind against Leinster. As I said, they're coming across to try and build their new legacy, the new rebuild of Toulon and to get back into European honours of finals and success again. So, yeah, I think Leinster are going to have to produce one of their better displays even to find their way into the final.
And with Toulon coming to town, O'Driscoll thinks that their attack might not be as dangerous as what Northampton Saints were last season.
I also think that, and I hope I don't eat my words, but I just don't think that the firing attack of Toulon has the same breaking capacity as Northampton Saints. I've watched Saints. They did a poor year in the Prem last year, but the year before, their attack under Sam Vestey is one of the best in the league. They have such a clear picture of what they're trying to do.
What are the key details about the Leinster vs. Toulon Champions Cup semi-final?
So maybe only in hindsight are we able to say this, that, well, you didn't talk about that before the semifinal last year. They've always been a great threat from an attacking point of view under Sam Vestey. I'm just not sure that this Toulon team has that potential. know-how that that that iq to be able to really pull it apart i think they're going to come after lenster a different way of trying to maraud it you know over the top of them and be physical and uncompromising and bash them and then hopefully some of their power players and you've got to remember cinzel and brex in the centers are a couple of big lumps as well um that they will you know there'll be a lot of route one stuff and then with with the iq
added opportunity of a little bit of finesse thrown in there rather than the other way around whereas I think with Northampton they don't have a big huge physical pack so they knew they had to think their way around beating Leinster which they did so incredibly well I think it'll be a different type of game plan from from Toulon you know a bit of meat and two veg stuff
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