Replacing James Ryan one of the biggest calls facing Leinster this week

WHEN LEINSTER AND La Rochelle met in Dublin for last year’s Champions Cup final, it was near impossible to drag your eyes away from the scrap between the opposition second rows.

Joe McCarthy is a shoo-in to start and it will likely be one of Ross Molony or Jason Jenkins alongside him. That Molony started against Leicester Tigers last weekend might be an indication of how Cullen is thinking. Ryan Baird is another option, although the 24-year-old has only started one game in the Leinster second row this season , with Leinster and Ireland now primarily using the versatile forward in the backrow.

Leinster will need him to bring the same edge to his game this weekend, while staying on the right side of the officials – at the Stade Marcel Deflandre McCarthy was sin-binned for driving Jonathan Danty into the ground after a scuffle broke out between the two teams.

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