SA’s URC teams tripped up by balancing act

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Competing in two top-tier European competitions has proven to be tougher than the four sides from the Republic first envisioned, according to GAVIN RICH.

“Leinster coach Leo Cullen was forthright after his team lost to the Stormers in Cape Town last April. He congratulated the Stormers and said he welcomed the South African challenge in a competition his team had dominated, but added the cautionary note that it would be a lot harder once the likes of the Stormers had to balance the URC with the Champions Cup,” Rich writes.

“Even in the game played in Johannesburg there were questions that could be asked that might have answers related to travel fatigue. It is after all later in the game that travel fatigue often hits, and while against Leinster you can never say you have the game won, and they proved that once more, it was the Lions who looked leaden footed at the very point you’d have expected the altitude to be their strongest ally.

 

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