Lancaster plays down unbeaten season chances

For Leinster, history beckons — and it’s only mid-season.

Account for Lyon at the RDS this Sunday, and the province will have matched its best-ever unbeaten ‘start’ to a campaign. One more win and it will be 15 straight, equalling the streak set in the course of the 2001/02 campaign when the Celtic League was taking its first, tentative steps.