Jack Conan: You want to be the champions who beat the best

Jack Conan during Leinster Rugby squad training at UCD. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

It was for days like the one in Sandy Park earlier this month that made signing a new Leinster contract such a formality for Jack Conan but the Ireland back-rower recognises the need to back it up in La Rochelle this Sunday for the victory over Exeter Chiefs to have any meaning.

The 28-year-old could not be in a better place in his career than right now, with an extension to his Leinster deal freshly inked and competing for space in his back pocket alongside another PRO14 winners’ medal and his excellent form earning talk of a run into next week’s British & Irish Lions squad selection.