Scott Fardy focused on Exeter challenge despite talk of Leinster exit

Scott Fardy arrives for the Leinster Rugby captains run at the RDS Arena in Dublin.Picture: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

If Leinster’s defeat of Munster in this year’s Guinness PRO14 final told us everything about where the two provinces stand here and now, then the celebrations that followed said something significant about the road ahead for the winners.

It has become tradition for Leinster to honour their soon-to-be departing players by asking them to lift the silverware on the field of play and it was Scott Fardy, Devin Toner and Michael Bent who took care of that business two weekends ago.