Leinster’s Ross Byrne: ‘You watch those games as a kid and that’s all you want to do, you want to play in them’

Leinster’s Ross Byrne: ‘You watch those games as a kid and that’s all you want to do, you want to play in them’

“When you’re not in the 23 it is tough but everyone in here knows what everyone in the squad does every week,” he says. “There are loads of lads who will miss out on the 23 this week but that doesn’t mean that they haven’t played an enormous part in us getting to the final. Without them we wouldn’t be in the final. That’s the nature of rugby. Some lads miss out because of how attritional it is and some lads miss out through selection. So it is very tough for some lads.

Leinster’s Ross Byrne looks on as Johnny Sexton prepares to kick in the Champions Cup Final against Racing 92 in Bilbao in 2018. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho “Yeah, that’s probably a big thing. They’re unique, they don’t come around that often. I know this is our third final in a row but these weeks are few and far between, you don’t know how many you’re going to get in your career.

Leinster's Ross Byrne in action against La Rochelle in the Champions Cup quarter-final at the Aviva Stadium on April 13th. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho Byrne’s personal experience of finals with Leinster actually goes back further than Bilbao, for he was also among the crowd in Murrayfield and the Millennium Stadium when they beat Leicester and Northampton in 2009 and 2011 when aged 14 and 16, with his family, including younger brother Harry.

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