Cullen keeps his focus on Wasps

Stuart Lancaster seems to be angling towards an extended stay with Leinster but Leo Cullen was reluctant yesterday to engage in contract talk ahead of the province’s eagerly-awaited Champions Cup quarter-final tie with Wasps in Dublin.

“I don’t think today is the day for that,” said Cullen on the back of reports his full coaching staff has signed for another two years. Everyone is just focused on what is a quarter-final in the Aviva, so we’ll have plenty of time for discussions about coaches and whatever else in good time.”

You can understand his singular focus for now. Scoot back 12 months and Cullen was sat on his sofa consumed with envy. Isa Nacewa was so annoyed about the fact the four Champions Cup quarter-finals were taking place without Leinster he couldn’t bring himself to watch. You sense a doozy of an understatement, then, when both say they are looking forward to this day.