Sean O'Brien: 'If we keep banging on the door, it will open'

Picture the scene at Leinster training today had they fallen off the edge of the cliff on Friday night. At half-time a stronger-selected and slicker Glasgow had pushed them to the edge with a 20-point lead. One more heave and they would have been gone, and Matt O'Connor would have needed more than the RNLI to fish them out of the water and dry them off ahead of Bath on Saturday. A Champions Cup quarter-final is not the type of fixture you want with a demoralised crew.