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 defence.
The number 8 excelled in the starting pack, having had to be patient off the bench for the majority of the Six Nations.
With Caelan Doris set to return to the side for this week's visit of the Tigers, Conan is hoping he's done enough to hold onto his jersey.
"It just shows we have the ability to win no matter what kind of style we play"
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"My mother must be ringing in and picking man of the match," he laughed.
"It's great to be playing, I feel like I've been back in form the last few weeks, feeling fit and strong. Obviously Caelan will be back this week, so one of us might be displaced. You need to be going well in these kind of games to put your hand up for selection.
"It's a massive bonus, with the quality in the back row we had."
And he says his side will have to find some extra gears if they're to secure their spot in the last four, and keep heir double hopes alive.
"There's so much more in us. How many tries [did we miss out on]? I knocked on over the line, we were held up, and left a lot of scores out there. A little bit frustrated but there's always room and scope to be better and we'll have to be better next week with Leicester coming to town.
"They haven't lost in six games, we know them well from last year and they were always sitting around the top of the Premiership. It's going to be a big task, but as of right now the lads are in good form.
"They've a day advantage after playing last night, I don't think the lads are too in bits after that which is good, but we have to recover well and go again and train on Monday.
"It's going to be a different type of challenge, very physical and a big pack with a great back row. We'll have to be better than we were today."
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