Cullen: It’s important we are open-minded to the best solution

Cullen on games potentially being played behind doors: “It takes away from what supporters bring and we have been incredibly lucky over the last number of years in terms of the involvement our supporters have had but it would be better than nothing and it would allow us to get the sport back up and running.”

The paralysing uncertainty as to just when sport can emerge again from house arrest has brought all sorts of strange ideas into play. So it is that a scenario previously unthinkable, anathema even, is now being viewed as the best of a very bad lot.

Spectators are to professional team sports what tonic is to gin but, as Leinster head coach Leo Cullen suggested yesterday, rugby is among those sports badly in need of revenue.