There has been a lot of head-scratching in the Leinster camp following their first two games in this year’s United Rugby Championship.
Both games took place in South Africa and one thing they are sure of is that game two was better than game one. Following in that pattern, game three this weekend must be better again. It comes against another South African team in Sharks, but this time Leinster are at home.
It’s a curious kind of pressure Leinster find themselves under with an imperative to get it right at the third time of asking. However, with some of the Lions players returning for their first appearances since the successful summer tour to Australia, it feels much too soon to categorise the two defeats as a crisis.
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