'I love the game and if I still feel like I can give something to the team' - Gopperth has no plans of hanging up boots

Jimmy Gopperth was already 31 by the time he left Leinster but, eight years later,  there are no plans to call it a day for now.

2015: Leinster's Jimmy Gopperth, left, and Sean Cronin. Pic: Pat Murphy / SPORTSFILE

Still no Johnny Sexton but that’s not to say that there won’t be a veteran playmaker doing the rounds when Leinster and Leicester Tigers squabble over a ticket to the Heineken Champions Cup semi-finals at the Aviva Stadium on Friday.

Jimmy Gopperth spent two years with Leinster while Sexton was away with Racing 92 but you would have enjoyed long odds on him still playing rugby eight years after his last appearance with the province back in 2015.