‘The backroom team work their a***s off’ – the inside story of Leinster’s Champions Cup final week
Leinster backroom staff (l-r) Eoghan Hickey, Joe McGinley, Marcus Ó Buachalla, Jim Bastick, Gary Nolan, Juliette Fortune, Paul Cahill and Brian Colclough at the Champions Cup semi-final between Leinster and Northampton Saints at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile
Reaching the Champions Cup final is the culmination of a season’s worth of hard work that extends far beyond what we see on the pitch every weekend.
For Leinster, this afternoon’s trip to London is a well-trodden path, as they take on Toulouse in what is the province’s eighth appearance in European rugby’s showpiece, and while the 80 minutes of action at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is what will define their season, Leo Cullen’s side wouldn’t be here without a relentlessly driven backroom staff.
