The Breakdown European rugby can ill afford complacency in Champions Cup

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La Rochelle’s coach, Ronan O’Gara, could be the man to pep up the competition and help it grab wider attention
There are two easy ways to look at this year’s Champions Cup semi-final draw and both are overly simplistic. Viewing the last four purely through downcast English, Welsh or Scottish eyes is to diminish the serious amount of Franco-Irish talent involved, while fixating solely on the tasty duel between the La Rochelle coach, Ronan O’Gara, and his rivals at Leinster also risks obscuring the bigger picture.
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