'I can't imagine Ronan O’Gara will send a weakened team over to play Leinster'

O’Gara will have just six days to turn his thoughts and squad around having beaten a painfully understrength Toulon side 66-0 at Stade Marcel Deflandre late on Sunday night, but Leinster forwards coach Robin McBryde is bracing for their best.

RESPECT: Ronan O'Gara congratulates Leinster's Ryan Baird after their Champions Cup quarter-final at the Aviva Stadium. Pic: Dan Sheridan, Inpho

The return of the Champions Cup this weekend brings with it a by-now familiar wariness based on the strength, or otherwise, of the chosen teams that will go public in a few days’ time.

Once bitten, twice shy, and all that.