Devin Toner is already the proud owner of three Heineken Cup medals and yet there is a sense that a first Champions Cup trinket would outweigh them all. He was 22 when he sat on the bench for the duration of the decider against Leicester Tigers in Edinburgh. Two years later and he bagged just over two minutes at the back end of the comeback against Northampton. “It is a lot different this year because it is a different group and I have played a bigger role,” he said of this week’s final, against Racing 92. “When we were at Ireland, we would be coming up with calls and he would say, ‘oh yeah, you did that two years ago with Leinster’.

Source: Irish Examiner May 09, 2018 23:03 UTC