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       Re: I want the champions cup
   DIR By: never sleep
       Date: June 24, 2022, 4:28 pm
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       . . . And Montpellier lift the Brennus for their first time.
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       Re: I want the champions cup
   DIR By: The Kid
       Date: June 25, 2022, 9:01 am
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       I don't think us winning this is impossible but it's pretty
       unlikely. The salary cap makes it a lot harder as people have
       mentioned, and the south africans are an unknown quantity
       against which we haven't played before. The way those side play,
       though, typically resembles the playing sides of sides we tend
       to struggle with (Sale, Saracens) who have similar DNA.
       That said, we played four games against the two Top 14 finalists
       and Won 3 Lost 1 (and in that loss, shipped 28 points in 10 mins
       of sheer madness, otherwise controlled the game) and acquitted
       ourselves well the rest of the time and were probably unlucky to
       go out by a point to what are now the Top 14 champions. It
       wasn't necessarily the first XVs playing each other, but that
       cut both ways.
       We are returning 90% + of the same squad again, and the young
       guns are a year wiser. A quarter final would be an achievement,
       but I don't think that's the ceiling. The only team in last
       year's competition that would really have given us proper
       worries that we couldn't surpass on any given day is Leinster,
       just because of how cohesive they are. That said, as the final
       evidence, even they can be stopped and have bad days. They wont
       be the same side when Sexton leaves or isn't playing.
       Next year is a trip into the unknown, but should we get to
       knockout rugby again, I would not rule us out.
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