We go out to play with attacking intent all the time, says Leo Cullen

Neither Bath nor Leinster have taken a scalpel to their fifteens this week. The weather, that brutal cocktail of wind, rain and cold, will be more of the same. Talk to Leo Cullen, though, and he will tell you that little else stays the same come the second of these back-to-back European encounters.

“We’ve seen over the years ... just because you win away doesn’t automatically guarantee any success the following week,” he warned yesterday on the back of his side’s somewhat lucky 17-10 defeat of today’s opposition in the West Country.