Connacht 12
Leinster 33
FIVE WEEKS INTO the season, it’s fair to start identifying trends.
Leinster love bonus-point wins, we know that. Five tries in Galway tonight against Connacht made it five bonus-point wins from five games for a perfect start to this URC campaign.
Leinster enjoy defending, seemingly taking an almost sadistic pleasure in tackling and scrambling and staying in the fight. They’re not perfect in defence but they seem to relish not having the ball under Jacques Nienaber’s guidance.
As was the case last weekend in Croker, Leinster’s opposition probably felt they created enough pressure and got into good enough field positions to pull off a comeback but it didn’t happen. It seems that when you think you have Leinster on the ropes, they’ve held back energy to land a haymaker out of the blue.
And as Leinster’s ruthless streak in the opposition 22 showed up again, Springboks second row RG Snyman …