Jennings: all about getting balance right

FEW Heineken Cup weekends, if any, are so pregnant with scripts and subplots as this.

Personal scores, which normally dilute of their own accord through the passing of time, remain fresh in the memory when teams go head-to-head for the second time in a week, and that adds a potential pinch of sulphur into an already spicy pot of fixtures.

Like Munster, Leinster will be facing an opponent that took a dislike to their tactics at the breakdown in the first ‘leg’ but Shane Jennings appeared less than bothered by Vern Cotter’s accusation that the Irish side showed a lack of respect last weekend.