Leinster hooker Dan Sheehan hoping his side can draw on Croke Park's special engergy if they make the required strong start against Northampton
Leinster hooker hoping his side can draw on the special energy in Croke Park if they make the required strong start against NorthamptonDan Sheehan scores Leinster's fourth try during the Champions Cup quarter-final win over defending champions and great rivals La Rochelle at the Aviva Stadium.
“I went down to Connemara with a couple of my mates and played a bit of golf, took it handy for a couple of days and just sort of recharged the batteries and went again,” said Sheehan. “I felt ready to go, bouncing back in and couldn’t wait to get back stuck in. Whereas if you’re bouncing week after week, it can be tough.”“Yeah, I find it pretty easy. It doesn’t eat away at the back of my mind too much.
“It is huge for the club,” Sheehan admitted of their first game at the venue in 15 years. “It is hugely exciting for us to go to such a special place like that, where rugby hasn’t been played for a while. To have it sold out with 82,000 people, it is going to be immense. “We talked a little bit about how you can’t get consumed by the idea of this big stadium with all this history, but definitely we might be able to feed off it, get some of the energy back, if the performance starts well on Saturday.”
Leinster were always going to be highly motivated for a quarter-final against a La Rochelle side that had ended their Champions Cup aspirations for three seasons in a row. “They are a hugely attacking team. We’ve seen they can attack from anywhere,” said Sheehan, citing the set-piece try Northampton scored in the Round of 16 against Munster from inside their own 22, and their threat in transition off opposition kicks, while referencing George Furbank and Tommy Freeman.
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