At risk of employing the old ‘If my aunty had wheels, she’d be a bike’ argument, here goes nothing…
Had Reda Wardi and Antoine Hastoy not got in each other’s way on Saturday night, if Simeli Daunivucu’s offload had not been spilled, if the same man had run through Sam Prendergast instead of trying to step him, if Grégory Alldritt had tried to charge through the same defender instead of passing inside, we would not be talking about Harry Byrne’s late kicking heroics.
We would instead be focusing on Leinster’s defence. Plenty are still questioning their system under Jacques Nienaber, even after the last-gasp victory over La Rochelle.
When Leinster’s defence has worked, critics acclaimed Nienaber. When it…