Leo Cullen: We have a long way to go

‘A statement’ this may have been from a Leinster side angling for an improvement on last season’s semi-final berth, but Leo Cullen has seen too much to get over excited by a performance or two in October.

Three-times a winning Heineken Cup captain with Leinster, he understands that fast starts can be absorbed into quagmires and that sluggish openings can be shrugged off with a belated generation of momentum through the pool stages.

So it was that the Leinster head coach could pitch up in the main stand in Glasgow after this most impressive of wins on Saturday wearing a distinctly impassive face and playing down the benefits of two opening Pool 3 games that have generated two wins and a maximum of ten points.