Exiles eye miracle performance to rekindle fading cup hopes

THE Scarlets hoodoo has left London Irish needing to do a demolition job on defending champions Leinster at Twickenham on Saturday if they are to qualify for the Heineken Cup quarter-finals in April.

The Scarlets have now won all four tournament meetings between the sides and last weekend’s 31-22 Round 5 defeat at Parc y Scarlets was a hammer blow to their title hopes.

The Twickenham match had looked to be a potential winner-takes-all affair but now Bob Casey’s team have to take a maximum five points – and deny Leinster anything – to top the group and earn automatic qualification.