Blues must win at Dragons' den

You have to go back to 2005 for the last time Leinster finished a Celtic Rugby campaign outside the top four, but the prospects of it happening this season will loom larger if they don't get out of Newport this afternoon with a win. When you balance this with the meat in their sandwich, the Champions Cup semi-final in Marseille next Sunday, and having to go to Belfast to face Ulster five days later, it illustrates how little room they have for manoeuvre. After that, their Pro12 dates wrap up with Treviso at home and Edinburgh away.