Re-run of Leinster game focuses Tipoki

ONCE described by his former North Harbour coach, Allan Pollock, as “a tortured genius” the only anguish Rua Tipoki suffered this week was having to sit through a re-run of Munster’s 10-3 defeat to Leinster last weekend.

The ‘genius’ in Tipoki failed to materialise on the night, the side-step and the shimmy that is his forte couldn’t break through a gung-ho Leinster defence.

And though he’s just over four months with the province, the loss to Munster’s arch rivals is not something he was going to tiptoe around either.