Leinster take positives from bonus point loss

JOE SCHMIDT wasn’t interested in talk of a ‘good defeat’ but this was surely the closest thing to it.

Without Brian O’Driscoll, RobKearney and Luke Fitzgerald, Leinster suffered the additional blow of losing Jamie Heaslip to injury shortly after the break against a side whose strength in depth was staggering.

Vern Cotter called Julien Pierre, Elvis Vermeulen, Mario Ledesma and Lionel Faure off the bench so the under strength visitors were full value for the losing bonus point which may prove their ticket from this pool.