Scott Penny: Tap-and-go penalties have become a new starter play

Scott Penny says tap penalties have become a "new starter play" for teams after it yielded another two tries for Leinster in their win over Munster.

Having been on the receiving end of a slick tap-and-go move during last season's semi-final loss to the Vodacom Bulls, Leinster took note and have scored off some of their own variations in both Europe and the BKT United Rugby Championship.

Josh van der Flier crossed off a lovely switch play against Racing 92 while Penny scored a similar effort as Leinster crossed twice while down to 14 men for a comeback win at Thomond Park.

Dan Sheehan’s effort was less subtle but had the same end result, the hooker powering through the Munster defence to score their second try in five minutes.

"It's almost a new starter play," said Penny. "You've got your scrum, lineout and these tap-and-go penalties are getting really big now.

"I think a lot of teams try to copy what other teams do and see what's working. We have obviously taken a few of ours from other teams and made some slight tweaks, but we have been pretty effective with them over the last few weeks.

"Who made the call [for Penny’s try]? It was a team effort, we all kind of had an input into it."

Penny has scored three tries in as many games against Munster, and he also made 25 tackles in a player-of-the-match performance.

Leinster looked in trouble after 43 minutes when they conceded a penalty try and had Max Deegan sin-binned, but they produced an instant response to falling 14-6 behind as tries from Penny and Sheehan turned the game on its head.

"Garry [Ringrose] and Ross [Byrne] just brought us together, and I think the main thing was to keep our discipline, try and control the game as much as possible," said Penny.

"We knew we were