Connacht will have high hopes of reaching the Challenge Cup decider.
TOULOUSE’S RAMPANT 80-point evisceration of Leicester yesterday leaves them ever so slightly ahead of Leinster as Champions Cup favourites but last year’s pair of finalists are on a collision course to meet again in this season’s decider in Cardiff on 24 May.
Leo Cullen’s men go through as the second seeds, meaning home advantage all the way through until the final if they reach it. And they should. Munster are on the other side of the draw to Leinster and are now seen as 66/1 longshots to win the competition. Their apparent mission impossible would mean having to most likely beat all of La Rochelle, Bordeaux, and Toulouse to reach the final. That would be beyond epic.
There’s no doubt the southern province will be underdogs but it has all the hallmarks of a European classic at Stade Marcel Deflandre. O’Gara has been searingly honest in his views on Munster’s shortcomings in recent seasons so it will be intriguing to hear what he has to say before this tie in April.
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