Felipe Contepomi: I’d rather take Sexton as he is

To many of his team mates, Johnny Sexton has often been seen as a man who brings a Monday morning personality to a Saturday night game.

Not a pre-match press conference has gone by in the last few years without some player, a scrum-half or a winger or a prop — he an equal opportunity abuser — smiling at how he’s been verbally ripped asunder by the Leinster out-half.