James Ryan: 'If you’re not motivated by this week then you’re probably in the wrong room'

The question with Leinster is whether so many of their players can gee themselves up to the required emotional peak so soon after they backboned Ireland’s Grand Slam.

Thu, 30 Mar, 2023 - 06:39

Brendan O'Brien

Motivation has been a bit of a buzz word ahead of Leinster’s meeting with Ulster this Saturday. And that’s without the usual cliches that can so easily be farmed on the week of these old provincial rivalries and lobbed into the pot.

The visitors will hardly lack for it given the presence in their ranks of players recruited from down south, the lack of game time others among them were afforded by Ireland in the recent Six Nations, and the thoughts of the pair’s meeting back in 2019.