Celtic teams,particularly from Ireland, are being left behind in topsy-turvy season as tribal passion is less likely to win gamesThe temperature of European club rugby is traditionally taken twice per year, and once in January and then again in May. This season the thermometer has been abruptly snatched from Celtic mouths and hurled clean across the ward. The presence of five English and three French clubs in the quarter-finals of the Champions Cup has potential implications for everybody’s future health.
What does it all mean? Ireland fill won the last two Six Nations titles but suddenly lack a single quarter-final European representative – aside from Connacht in the Challenge Cup – for the first time in 18 years.
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Source: theguardian.com