No thoughts of tomorrow for Leo Cullen as Leinster focus on Scarlets

Garry Ringrose is out with a calf injury that he has been carrying for an unspecified period of time. Tommy O’Brien, Leinster’s breakout star this season, has been hobbled by a foot problem. Both were running at the back end of the week.

NO THOUGHTS OF TOMORROW: The Leinster head coach Leo Cullen was in no mood to countenance the next step prior to this one. Not after that Champions Cup semi-final loss to Northampton Saints. And not on the back of three seasons and counting without a trophy. Pic: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

Nobody sells tickets faster and better than Leinster so it says something that the province had shifted only 12,000 of them as of Friday for this URC quarter-final encounter with Scarlets at the Aviva Stadium.

The Bank Holiday will have had something to do with that. So too will the general impression that Leo Cullen’s lads will sweep the Welsh aside and book a more attractive date at the same venue a week later. Some, of course, will have their eyes on a final.