Dan Sheehan leads Leinster’s voracious batch of players who want to make their own history via IrishTimesSport
“A lot of people talk about the four stars we have but it’s a new group and there are a lot of lads who haven’t experienced a Champions Cup win so there are a lot of young lads who are really excited about the potential to win on the weekend and then go on and have a proper crack at a trophy.”
“This year they’re a bit more aggressive in their D [defence]. They come up hard and they’ll just try to disrupt. They’ve got a lot of attacking threats at our breakdown, [Julien] Marchand and these fellahs.“We have a small bit of an insight into what we think they might come with but at the same time we need to get our stuff right.
“We’ve talked about their two hookers quite a bit. A lot of their attack off set-piece goes through them. Even unstructured wise they’re both well capable of throwing passes. They’ve the whole skill set, basically.” Besides, like Leinster’s other frontliners, he was given a week’s break after the quarter-final win over Leicester and spent a few days in London. “I did absolutely nothing ... [except] eating!”
“My parents would probably say that not much fazes me or that I look disinterested in a lot of things, but I just don’t get too riled up about big events. It’s an important thing to have in a position like hooker. You get a lot of big moments where you have to execute and can’t let the moment get to your head.”
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