O’Driscoll wary of Bath

LEINSTER have been here before. The Heineken Cup. The ever-increasing levels of expectation. The feeling that everything is going their way, that this could be their year.

With an injury-ravaged Bath side and Benetton Treviso to overcome in their last two group games, and the English side seven points adrift of them at Pool Two’s summit, even underachieving Leinster could be forgiven for approaching their next two assignments with less than 100% focus.

The mere mention of the words ‘Perpignan’ and ‘Sale Sharks’, and the unforeseen damage both did to their aspirations over the past two years, should be enough to focus any wandering minds on the business at hand, however.