Wilkins: Connacht complaints not about getting Leinster players in trouble

Mack Hansen of Connacht gestures to the assistant referee during the United Rugby Championship match between Leinster and Connacht at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Connacht head coach Pete Wilkins said they are not trying to get any Leinster player in trouble as the fallout from Mack Hansen’s explosive post-match comments continue into the second round of the Christmas derby games.

Hansen said that it ‘seemed like 16 men against us’ in their 20-12 loss to Leinster at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday and ‘it’s just getting to the point where it’s starting to really piss us off because we just feel we’re getting played out of games and we never get any calls’, in an astonishing broadside against match officials.