Sexton left to cool off for rest of the year

Jonathan Sexton has been annoyed with himself this week.

Losing to Clermont was bad enough but then he went and had a few choice words with Nathan Hines before they all departed the scene. The pair have kept in touch since the Scottish Aussie left Dublin for France but Sexton wasn’t happy with “some of the dirty stuff” that he felt the lock brought to the table.

Hines wasn’t doing anything he hadn’t done week in, week out for Leinster, but the fact he would carry on regardless against his old team-mates touched a nerve and the Irish out-half let his emotions get the better of him and emptied his frustrations.