Chop-tackler Will Connors a vital cog in Leinster machine

Saturday will see Leinster bid for a hat-trick of PRO14 titles when they face Ulster

Leinster’s Will Connors tackles Marcell Coetzee of Ulster last month. Photo: INPHO/James Crombie

As the league’s leading tackler, Will Connors’ selection in the Guinness PRO14 Dream Team for 2019-20 should not have been a surprise but you sense this recognition of his talents is just the start of things to come for Leinster’s voracious young back-rower.

In a provincial back-row unit brimming with skills, pace, power and physicality, Connors is merely another cog but fast becoming a vital component of the engine driving Leo Cullen’s in its still unbeaten pursuit of a second league and European double in three seasons.