Cullen and McKellar hail 'exceptional' Gibson-Park

If a certain French scrum-half had performed like Jamison Gibson-Park did last night the rugby world would rightly be hailing his genius.

The Leinster scrum-half, who played his 50th European game and his 136th match for the club, scored a hat-trick and was virtual unplayable in the opening half of their victory over Leicester.

His lines of running bore a remarkable resemblance to the incisive routes that Antoine Dupont operates in; there were sidesteps and slaloms to beat the band.

The New Zealand native made 90 metres off eight runs and beat six defenders, while putting in five tackles over the course of 73 high-octane minutes.

Before Leicester knew what had hit them, the game was up.

A hat-trick for Jamison Gibson-Park at the Aviva inside half an hour!