Leinster face up to future without Stuart Lancaster and Johnny Sexton

The duos departures from the club frame this Toulouse game and the bid to claim a fifth 'European' title.

FINAL FOUR: Leinster Rugby Squad Training, Rosemount, UCD, Dublin 24/4/2023

Singling out individuals for praise must go against everything Stuart Lancaster and Johnny Sexton have stood for at Leinster but their departures from the club frame this Toulouse game and the bid to claim a fifth 'European' title in a more nuanced light.

For them, for Leo Cullen and for everyone else on board there has been an understandable pride taken in the manner in which the whole organisation has put it’s shoulder to the wheel and shunted it this far down the track in the professional era.