Leinster now looking to kick on

AMLIN CUP QUARTER-FINAL:

The province has only played at Adams Park once before, a quarter-final which they lost to a very different Wasps team back in 2007, but the years since have seen the two clubs’ fortunes swing in different arcs and there is little to suggest that their graphs have suddenly met somewhere in the middle.

Had Leinster not been waylaid by a medieval list of injuries earlier in the season, or been landed in a pool with Clermont Auvergne, the odds are that they would still be priming themselves for a tilt at an historic hat-trick of European Cups and not facing into such an unfamiliar challenge.