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Heineken Cup Pool 5: Leinster V Scarlets

It has become an accepted staple of the rugby vernacular, along with those about the French being ropey on the road, Brian O’Driscoll being a quick healer and Thomond Park being something of a fortress.

Like all clichés, it is one bedrocked in a block of truth and both Leinster and Munster are living, breathing proof as they seek to overcome a damaging pair of defeats apiece over a set of weekends that will make or break their seasons.