'As much as we back our 'D', their attack probably got on top of us at times there'

THERE ARE COMPLEXITIES to rugby which can make it inaccessible to the uninitiated but, when the game is in full flight, there is equally a simplicity to it: 15 players trying to run through, or around, 15 other players.

“We came together and acknowledged that there was a bit of a lull, that they were going through a bit of a purple patch,” Doris said of the second half. Pre-game, Northampton fullback George Furbank had openly admitted that his side had been working on stopping scrum-half Jamison Gibson-Park, whom Saints had identified as the man who “runs the show” for Ireland’s eastern province.

Encouraged further to provide some of the thinking behind his quick tap and rasping skip pass which yielded Leinster’s first try for hat-trick hero James Lowe, Gibson-Park replied: “It’s probably intuitive to a point. As for his second assist for Lowe, a volleyball-style palmed pass out to the unmarked left winger after the ball had been half-ripped from Doris on Saints’ line, Gibson-Park joked with the man beside him: “I dunno, I was hoping Caelan was going to pass it to me earlier.

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