Jack Conan: 'There's so much more in us'

Cup rugby, dreadful weather, an Irish derby and a 15-point win. And yet, a reminder that for Leinster it was a day where they just about hit par.

"There's so much more in us," were the first words out of the mouth of Jack Conan after the province saw off Ulster 30-15 to secure a place in the quarter-finals of the Heineken Champions Cup, taking on the Leicester Tigers this Friday at the Aviva Stadium.

Leo Cullen's side never looked like losing in Saturday's Round of 16 tie, trailing for all of 100 seconds after Nathan Doak's early penalty, and never letting the visitors get closer than two scores through the second half.

Conditions dictated that it wasn't a gripping game of rugby; 58 kicks shared between the sides, and plenty of one-out carries played in tight corridors. It's not pretty, but it was perfectly effective.

And for Conan, it was a sign that the province can adapt their approach to suit whatever game they need to play.

"With the conditions, it's about playing pressure rugby rather than the Leinster tradition rugby where we're attacking the whole time.

"We're keeping it down there [in Ulster's half], making them play out, kick back to us, and just sparring. Jamo [Gibson-Park], Lukey [McGrath], Ross [Byrne] and Harry when he came on pulled the strings really well and kept the pressure on them.

"We don't need to do anything crazy to try play out of our own half in those conditions. Nobody was getting through multi-phase with the way the weather was. It's just a testament to show that we can win with different styles of rugby; attacking rugby, but we can also be really gritty, up the jumper and take it to teams."

Conan was Player of the Match, logging 20 carries across the 80 minutes, while chipping in with six tackles in