Cheika looks to bounce back

LEINSTER will be aiming to rediscover their winning touch against Cardiff Blues at the RDS today (5.30pm), just a week before they open another Heineken Cup campaign at the same venue.

Michael Cheika’s side put a run of three consecutive victories together before last week’s heavy reversal in Musgrave Park.

“I don’t like to use that phrase, a wake-up call, because I don’t think we were asleep (against Munster). It’s more about a realisation that you have to work hard all the time and we have been working hard.