Leinster senior tutor Jacques Nienaber is assured his avid gamers might not be mentally scarred via shedding a 3rd consecutive Champions Cup ultimate as they give the impression of being to win the URC and keep away from a 3rd trophy-less season at the leap.
As anticipated, the temper at Leinster’s UCD bottom is terribly downbeat in shiny of extreme weekend’s tragic defeat to Toulouse, however with Connacht to come back on the RDS on Friday night time, they should temporarily shift their focal point.
Leinster hope to welcome again co-captain Garry Ringrose from a long-term shoulder trauma, as Nienaber downplayed considerations that shedding every other Eu ultimate would possibly reduce scar tissue for this season and past.
“I can’t think that it would because you work, you get into a final and sometimes you win them and sometimes you lose them, and it is what it is,” Nienaber mentioned.
“Does it build up a question of a mental scar? I don’t know, and my personal take is when the past comes knocking on the door don’t even open it because the past has nothing new to tell you anyway.
“It’s going to tell you that you lost a previous final and it’s got no bearing on what happens tomorrow or the day after. The past is the past and it’s done.
“So I would hope that it wouldn’t [leave a scar] because it doesn’t. I mean the fact that you had a good game in a World Cup final in 2019 doesn’t mean you’re going to have a good World Cup final in 2023, it’s got nothing to do with it. You have to perform.
“So me personally, I don’t see that and I’d tell that to the players. If the past comes knocking don’t open the door because it’s got nothing new to tell you anyway.”
In the meantime, Nienaber mentioned that Hugo Keenan might not be to be had for Leinster’s URC run-in later the full-back connected up with the Eire sevens squad forward of this weekend’s International Form Brilliant Ultimate in Madrid in preparation for a fracture on the Olympics in Paris this summer season.