Leinster lick their wounds

Leinster 14

And to his credit he was brutally honest. "I don't think our performance was down to nerves or over expectation. We just didn't play well enough," Hickie said with a shrug of the shoulders.

"I don't think it was a game that was slipping away from us. It was a game I think that wanted to be taken by the scruff of the neck by us and that's what we didn't do.