Castres bring on the big man Karena Wihongi. Castres game plan is to dominate the scrum now.

Castres again pulling on the pressure in Leinster's half. Leinster have a scrum on their own 5m line.

Unlucky for Castres! Brilliant piece of individual skill from Brice Dulin who chips the ball over, picks the ball up and breaks , he comes agonisingly close to going over but he is stopped by Kearney, the ball is the spun out and Tales tries a grubber through but it's too long. Leinster very lucky there.

Leinster start off brightly putting a couple of phases together but the ball is knocked on thanks to a good tackle from Taumoepeau.

No changes at the break and Leinster kick us off.

@Phil. Not really Castres have grown into the game in the last 10 minutes. If you check the Match Chat we have updates as they come!

Half time here at the RDS and Leinster lead Castres 9-7. A tight encounter which for the first 30 minutes Leinster looked the better side but Castres came back into the game through Rory Kockott. Leinster will be happy to go into the break in the lead but Castres are causing them problems. In the last 10 minutes Leinster have looked on edge and are under a lot of pressure. Long way to go in this game so stay with us for updates. What do we think will be the outcome come full time?

Ball is spun out wide to Dave Kearney but he knocks the ball on. And that will bring a half to the close.

Well? Against the run of play? In work so relying on updates here... :)

Bad attempt from Gopperth. Sails well wide and the score stays 9-7 to the home side.