Securing a top seeding and home advantage guarantees nothing according to Leo Cullen
“When someone like that comes back into the selection mix it is good. But then there are other players there as well who can do a good job for us.”
Cullen returned home halfway through Leinster’s two-game trek to South Africa to be reunited with the frontline squad and coaching staff last week, so missing their first defeat of the season when beaten 62-7 by the Bulls last Saturday in their final regular season URC game. Cullen also noted that Toulouse rested pretty much all their frontline troops – the brilliant Antoine Dupont, Roman Ntamack, Thomas Ramos et al – when losing last Saturday by 19-10 away to Stade Francais in the classico.
“Interesting, obviously, Richard Wigglesworth had some comments the last day about us,” added Cullen good-naturedly, in reference to the interim Leicester head coach discussing the gulf in spending power between Leinster and the English clubs, while also noting that Wigglesworth played at Saracens, who were subsequently heavily penalised for repeated breaches of the salary cap.“Toulouse have five stars on their jerseys, we have, what, four stars on our jerseys.
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