Leinster’s coach Michael Cheika, in his final season with the province, wants to see his charges perform like European champions. He talks to Gerry Thornley in the Irish Times.
"It's a source of considerable pride for Michael Cheika that the Irish team which finished the win against South Africa contained four recent products of the Leinster academy – Rob Kearney, Jamie Heaslip, Sean O’Brien and Cian Healy. Slowly, but relatively seamlessly, the Leinster squad has undergone quite a change in Cheika’s five years at the helm.
"Indeed, he notes that there are only eight players from the squad he inherited still playing for the province – Girvan Dempsey, Gordon D’Arcy, Bernard Jackman, Brian O’Driscoll, Shane Horgan, Ronnie McCormack, Malcolm O’Kelly and Jamie Heaslip – while Rob Kearney came into the team halfway through that 2005-06 campaign."
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