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Hello and welcome to Brian Moore's full contact with the Telegraph.

The penultimate week in the European group stages.

This weekend that it saw Saracens through.

Exeter give themselves a chance and the Scottish teams continue to roar. Plus,

Lensster missing half their first team, still dominate on the big stage. Here to discuss it all with

me is the Telegraph's Rugby Union correspondent Mick Clear. Hello Mick. Hello, Brian.

What can you say? Pool 1, Leinster. No, Sexton, Keeneeney henshaw a brian levy low or toner and still beat to lose

yeah well who've been in reasonably good for them back to uh approaching kind of what they were

you know all those many years ago and we used to to love going there and watching them play in particular.

No, I mean, Lester, I mean, it's, I'm just trying to cobble together

of columners over this week, and it's just this,

if you've got a convention of talent as the Irish promises,

because there are only four Irish promises, three in the Champions Cup.

An Ireland are going very, very well as a national team.

You're bound to get this sort of dominance, aren't you, really?

And same with, to a lesser extent, obviously, with Scotland,

where the two teams and all the Scottish talent is in those two sides.

So, listen, Lensster are fantastic.

You know, they're out in front for my mind.

When they've got everyone together and the bench that they can bring out,

they're not far off international standard, are they?

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