Relaxed Leo Cullen taking Munster’s tactical curveball in his stride

Leo Cullen won’t have been burning the midnight oil last night just because Munster threw a curveball by naming three out-halves in their back line for today’s Guinness PRO14 encounter in Dublin.

Rassie Erasmus has plumped for the in-form Ian Keatley at 10 with Tyler Bleyendaal wearing 12 and JJ Hanrahan slotting in at full-back. It makes for an intriguing selection but the Leinster head coach seems to have taken it in his stride.

“We won’t tweak or plan greatly based off that,” he said. “We knew Jaco Taute was out injured, that was reasonably evident early in the week. We probably would have made an assumption that (Rory) Scannell would have played 12 and Chris Farrell would have played 13.