Leinster’s new head coach Josef Schmidt is less than pleased about the Heineken Cup pool which the province have been drawn in for next season.
Schmidt, a former Clermont Auvergne head coach, will come up against his old club. Saracens and Racing-Metro 92 make up the quartet in Pool 2 for the 2010/11 Heineken Cup.
“I’m not sure how these draws are made, but I just seem to get the hard ones,†Schmidt told irishrugby.ie
“In my first season in the Heineken Cup, Clermont were drawn with Munster, London Wasps and a Scarlets side that had gone unbeaten through to the semi-finals the previous season.
“Then last season we had the Ospreys and Leicester Tigers to contend with. Now I find myself back in one of those ‘pools of death’ again.
“Leinster had London Irish (third in England), Brive (sixth in France) and the Scarlets (fifth in the Magners League) last season. Now look at what we’ve got!
“I would certainly have preferred to have missed the French champions, who left 26 points behind them on their last trip to Dublin and outscored Leinster by three tries to two.”
