Heaslip injury big worry for Leinster

Matt O’Connor and Neil Doak don’t look or sound alike but scribble their words down on a piece of paper and it’s well nigh impossible to make out which man’s thoughts are which.

Both have spoken at length in recent weeks about the need to play better and about how extensive injury lists have hit their squads and impinged on the quality of output from their respective sides.

A look at the PRO12 table would only add to the similarities in status with Leinster just the one point and one place ahead of their provincial rivals after Saturday. And yet this win carried with it the sense that it was bigger than the mere four points.