New-look Leinster looks to show they’re better than before

A quick scoot back 12 months. Leinster and Ulster in a Guinness PRO12 semi-final at the RDS and it ends with a 12-point win for the hosts.

Now back to tonight. Another semi-final, this time against the visiting Scarlets, but it is a very different Leinster side detailed to face them.

Only five of those who started against Ulster last May will do so again this evening. Retirements, forced and voluntary, have taken a few, injuries have hobbled others and Ben Te’o decided his career needed to go off on another tangent entirely.