Leinster have thrashed Gloucester 57-0 this evening, with Dan Sheehan setting up one of the tries of the night for Jordan Larmour.
Fresh off his nominations for Breakthrough Player of the Year at the recent World Rugby awards, Sheehan displayed Sonny Bill-esque offloading skills, as he gave Larmour an easy run in with a lengthy out-the-back-door pass.
In total, Leinster put nine tries on a desperately poor Gloucester side, who had caused much debate during the week after naming an extremely weakened squad.
Leinster's next Champions Cup clash is away to Gloucester on January 13.
Dan Sheehan Shows Incredible Offloading Skills For Leinster With Larmour Assist
We're convinced that Dan Sheehan is a back playing in the front row 😆
Great to see Jordan Larmour scoring on his return to @leinsterrugby 🤩#HeinekenChampionsCup pic.twitter.com/jtde33bEC2— Heineken Champions Cup (@ChampionsCup) December 16, 2022
Prior to the match, RTE pundit Jamie Heaslip gave his thoughts on the Gloucester selection controversy, and he wisely suggested that the format of the competition - which gives teams an easy route to the knockout rounds - was to blame.
"On one and I don't blame Gloucester," said Heaslip. "But then you listen to the coach there and their mindset is actually, basically saying we're favouring our domestic league over European competition.
"That's not the way it should be. This should be, it is the Champions Cup, this should be top of the bus for them in terms of priorities.
"Now you could argue, they might be going 'well if we had of sent a full strength team over anyway, this Leinster team might ship 40 points on us regardless.' But, you know, it doesn't send a good signal either way, and the competition have to look at it and kind of go, is this the right format? Is this driving the right behaviours from the teams?"
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