It was always going to be the case that the finger-pointing in the post mortem after Saturday’s loss to Toulouse in the Investec Champions’ Cup would hit Leinster, but few would have predicted it would be directed at World Cup winning coach Jacques Nienaber.
It was always going to be the case that the finger-pointing in the post-mortem after Saturday’s loss to Toulouse in the Investec Champions’ Cup would hit Leinster, but few would have predicted it would be directed at World Cup-winning coach Jacques Nienaber.
Nienaber isn’t one to subscribe to focusing on the negative, and believes you move on after a loss and get better, rather than agonising over something that could have been. Leinster are in third spot on the log after leading for most of the season and lost ground on their recent tour of South Africa, where they lost both games after fielding a young side with their first-choice players preparing for the Champions Cup semifinals and final.With the log that could reshuffle to leave them anywhere between first and fourth after this round, Nienaber wants them to bounce back strongly. But talk of mental scarring is something he dismissed outright.
“It’s going to tell you that you lost a previous final and it’s got no bearing on what happens tomorrow or the day after. The past is the past and it’s done. That no-nonsense approach has served the Springboks well and Nienaber will be looking to instill it this week as Leinster regroup for the URC. "And then the third is continuity, our breakdown - and there credit should probably go to Toulouse and how they slowed our ball down, so we struggled to generate consistent quick ball, especially when we got into their 22."Facing the criticism of Leinster concentrating too much on defence head on, Nienaber dismissed this, saying the team had prepared as they always had for the final.
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