The format of this season’s Champions Cup has been questioned by Leicester’s director of rugby, Dan McKellar, before his team’s last-16 trip to face Leinster in Dublin. The winners will face either the Stormers or La Rochelle in next week’s quarter-finals, both of whom played the Tigers in this season’s pool stage.
Leicester have also already faced a strong Leinster side packed with Six Nations-winning Irish internationals this season and McKellar would prefer fewer cases of deja vu in future. “Someone has not got something right when they were planning the competition,” said McKellar, still in his first season in charge at Leicester.
