Upfront Jennings shoots from the lip

ONE thing you have to say for Shane Jennings: the guy is great copy.

Most players choose to smother uncomfortable questions in anodyne replies and clichés. Not the Leinster flanker.

Every reply is delivered without a hint of sugar coating. The Munster defeat, he admits, was a “good licking”, the two defeats to the European champions and Connacht “a kick up the arse”.