Toulouse lock Emmanuel Meafou looks ahead to Saturday’s Champions Cup final meeting with Leinster.
EMMANUEL MEAFOU HAS come up against Leinster twice in his career, and twice he’s left the pitch with regrets.
“A mixture of things; inexperience, ill-discipline. Last year we played with two yellow cards, and it’s hard to win a final when you’re down a player. We’ve grown as a team and in this team, there’s a lot of players who have played those past two games. We’re definitely not the same players and same team.”
Advertisement The French side have won the Champions Cup more than any other club, with four-time winners Leinster hoping to pull level with that record this weekend. “As for this weekend, even though our success rate against Leinster hasn’t been good, we’re a different team than we were three years ago and four years ago, and we keep getting batter.Meafou was born in New Zealand but moved to Australia when he was two. A promising athlete, he played rugby league growing up and was approached by NFL scouts before moving across the world to join Toulouse.
“Of course they like to enjoy that part of the game, but here the DNA of the game and Toulouse in general, they want to play, and they want to keep the ball alive.“They are encouraged to play that brand of rugby, and when it sticks it sticks, and that’s something that we train on, and it’s been working well for us. It’s not only this team this year, it’s definitely a historic brand of this club, and they’re very successful.
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