The Champions Cup final has provided players and supporters some of the best memories in Leinster history. <\/p>\n
It has also led to some of the worst. <\/p>\n
One of the juggernauts of European rugby, it feels staggering that the Irish province have not won the Champions Cup since 2018. <\/p>\n
Since that win, Leinster have lost four times in the decider, including three in a row from 2022-2024.<\/p>\n
But Leo Cullen’s side are back in Bilbao, the scene of their 2018 triumph, with the aim of adding a fifth star. <\/p>\n
It won’t be easy as a star-studded Bordeaux side stand in their way, but Leinster will hope it’s a case of lessons learnt from previous heartbreaks.<\/p>\n
“All the big games I’ve been lucky enough, and privileged enough, to be involved in with Leinster, I’ve learned valuable lessons from – some a little bit more painful than others,” said centre Garry Ringrose.<\/p>\n
“All of them were close games and fell on really close, fine margins.<\/p>\n
“I guess those valuable lessons is from previous experiences just focusing on the preparation and working as hard as we can to prepare to then ultimately, I guess, go all in on the game and yeah, we can’t control the outcome. <\/p>\n
“We can’t control the results, unfortunately. So it’s just focusing on preparing as best we can and I guess what will be result-wise.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Champions Cup final has provided players and supporters some of the best memories in Leinster history. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-438507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}