MUNSTER AREN’T IN European action over the next few days but Paul O’Connell is still keeping busy as we wait for the most exciting club rugby weekend of the year to kick-off.
O’Connell was involved in a litter pick-up in Limerick city earlier today and took time out of his humanitarian effort to talk Champions Cup rugby.
The Ireland captain was asked about Leinster’s mouthwatering clash with Bath tomorrow and his prediction will make Leinster fans a bit more bullish ahead of the quarter-final.
“I think [Leinster] will win,” O’Connell said on Newstalk’s Breakfast show this morning.
“Bath are an excellent side, it’s going to be a great game, but home advantage … I think they played really well last week when they came back. Once they went down against Glasgow, it just seemed to spark the old Leinster back into gear. They really put on an unbelievable performance for the rest of the game.”
O’Connell thinks the reintroduction of Leinster’s big internationals could swing the game in their favour.
“The addition of Jamie [Heaslip], Sean O’Brien and a few others back into the team – I’d be confident if I was Leinster,” O’Connell said.
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Newcastle look safe now. Hopefully they will already be on holidays when Liverpool go there on May 5th. Either way I’d say Rafa won’t be trying his hardest to stop Liverpool if they are still in with a shout of the title then.
@Flaming Mo: I hope you’re right but Rafa’s as straight as an arrow and I can’t picture him telling a player to go easy can you?….it would be a bit like the time Kenny brought Blackburn Rovers to Anfield looking for a win to secure the premiership, no quarter given that day and none expected by Kenny, you play to win, that day Utd blew it themselves fortunately :)
@Caoimhin O’Murchadha: Matt ritchies left foot is like something sent from heaven his some man to whip a ball across the box
@Ings on Fire: is he not right footed?
@John: no his clearly left footed but ur glasses on
@John: he’s left footed, but he ain’t too bad with his right either
Where is C Clark?
@GARFARKLE: find out yourself
@Aj Leahy: shut up he just asked a question like to get aj /John which is the same account banned
@Ings on Fire: Thank you.
@GARFARKLE: no bother man
@Ings on Fire: funny that ings on fire is also my account
@Aj Leahy: shut up aj everyone knows about u and johns account is a joint account u salmon
@GARFARKLE: he got injured a few months back. Still not fit
@David O’Brien: Thank you.