PRO14 final: Can Ulster stop Leinster invincibles?

This is their ninth league final since 2010 and they are going for a seventh title in total, their fifth since 2013

Garry Ringrose, left, and Jack Conan during the Leinster Rugby captains run at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Picture: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

It has been the question opposition coaches and players have been asking each other all season long - just how do we beat Leinster? To date, none has found the definitive answer and so Leo Cullen’s defending champions will go into tonight’s Guinness PRO14 final against Ulster on the cusp of an unbeaten season.

That the Ulstermen have perhaps posed Leinster the most difficult of challenges posed by PRO14 teams of late makes them suitable protagonists this evening but given all we have seen of the men in blue these past few years and their ridiculously good record in this competition, there is no disputing their status as red-hot favourites for a third title on the bounce.