Conservative Leinster get the job done

Connacht 8 Leinster 16

Not the sort of words we have come to associate with Leinster this past, well, ever but Matt O’Connor’s side ticked off all the right boxes like a fussy accountant on Saturday night and the numbers duly added up.

Gordon D’Arcy’s controversial 73rd-minute try, claimed thanks to a pass from Jimmy Gopperth that was clearly forward regardless of the IRB’s rules tweaks and the TMO’s thumbs-up, sealed it in the end.