Old foes set for for new battle

If this game was a business proposition you probably wouldn’t even need a six-second elevator pitch to sell it.

Leinster v Munster. In a semi-final. And on a sun-drenched Saturday afternoon. That’d do it.

There’s more to it than that, of course. Players and coaches talk about bubbles more often than the guy who invented gum but it just isn’t realistic to expect that these two groups of human beings can approach this encounter in any such sort of linear fashion.