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Champions: But Leinster players appeared only 6.6 times for their club

With the Champions Cup starting this weekend, it brings into focus the differing ways that the three European leagues manage their players. The Celts will moan about the French and English ‘moneybags’, and in return they’ll moan about the injustice of the Irish being able to wrap their star players in cotton wool.
On BT Sports Rugby Tonight, which last week showed signs of heading down the Sky Sports road of becoming an Irish lovein, now that they have the broadcasting rights to the Euro...