Leinster carve up Northampton Saints in embarrassing turkey shoot

Leinster 60 Northampton Saints 13: The number of blue Santa hats and woeful Christmas jumpers was well down on previous years but Leinster got in on the Christmas theme on Saturday with a nine-try turkey shoot against an obliging Northampton that leaves them in prime position in Pool 4.

Little enough can be learned from nights like it.

Leo Cullen tried to talk up the benefits - how the Saints put it up to his side during a first quarter when Ken Pisi’s 95-metre intercept try built an unlikely 13-5 lead for the struggling visitors - but all it did was square his lads to the job at hand and cut out the sloppiness.