Leinster’s James Lowe: I’m obsessed with winning the Champions Cup after previous heartache
James Lowe and Leinster take on Northampton in the Champions Cup Semi-Final at Croke Park
James Lowe may have a Champions Cup winner’s medal in the cabinet, but the fact he wasn’t selected for the semi-final and final back in 2018 means he has long been determined to right a few wrongs.
That motivation is also fuelled by having lost three Finals since Bilbao when Lowe was left out of the match-day squad in favour of Jamison Gibson-Park and Scott Fardy, who Leo Cullen selected as his two permitted Antipodean players.
