Leinster’s legs may be fresher

Jamie Heaslip’s recent retirement has left a vacancy for the title of rugby’s ‘Mr Indestructible’ and one look through the Saracens duty roster for the season to date makes a persuasive case for Alex Goode as the heir apparent.

The full-back, discarded by Eddie Jones, has played every minute of every Premiership and European game for the reigning back-to-back Champions Cup champions this term. That’s 1,920 minutes of rugby through a run of 24 games and across a span of seven months.

If that’s unique then he isn’t the only man on overtime