La Rochelle, who have been struggling this season, hope to turn their fortunes around with a victory against Leinster.
Although all bar one have returned in recent weeks, the one exception is Grégory Alldritt, the heartbeat of their team in recent seasons who had agreed with the club to take a break after the World Cup until January. In all, 105 players in the Top 14 this season took part in the World Cup, and only Toulouse were bigger bulk suppliers, providing 10 of the French squad and 17 players in total.
The top two by a distance last season, such have been the demands on Toulouse and La Rochelle, both domestically last season and in the World Cup, that they sit sixth and ninth with five wins out of nine and four out of nine.La Rochelle's head coach Ronan O'Gara speaks with La Rochelle's Australian centre Ulupano Seuteni. Photograph: Xavier Leoty/AFP via Getty “I’m sure himself and Donnacha will have their phones switched on,” James Coughlan, their former Munster team-mate, told The Irish Times this week, who was surprised O’Gara’s suspension was only one week given previous suspension
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