Leinster head coach Leo Cullen says it's business as usual for his back row in tomorrow night's Heineken Champions Cup quarter-final against Leicester (live on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player), despite the surprise inclusion of Caelan Doris at openside flanker.
The 25-year-old missed last week's Round of 16 win against Ulster, but comes straight back into the side for the Good Friday meeting with the Tigers.
Notably, Doris will line out at openside flanker in the absence of the injured Josh van der Flier, having only previously started at blindside or number 8 in his professional career.
The Mayo man comes in at '7' at the expense of specialist openside flankers Scott Penny - who is among the replacements - and Will Connors, who misses out on selection.
And while Doris has limited experience in the role, Cullen says it's something they have always prepared for.
"It's something we discuss quite a bit," the head coach said of the selection.
"Scott has been outstanding for us all season but Caelan has also brought something very unique throughout the last couple of seasons, really, hasn't he?
"Clearly Josh is out this week, Caelan was out last week and is back in this weekend and if that dynamic had been there in whatever order of those say four back-rowers, Caelan would be the one who covers 7 anyway and over the course of the last number of seasons, that's something that he has done.
"We have Scott there as well so you think of the relationship of those four back-rowers, Ryan Baird and Jack Conan I thought played really well last week and that was the feeling.
"But yeah, we're blessed, we've got some guys there and Caelan (below) is performing at a world class level, isn't he? We're excited to see how these guys go."
It's a second year in a row that the sides have met in the last eight of Europe, with Leinster 23-14 winners in last year's quarter-final at Welford Road.
Since then, Leicester have gone on to win the Premiership, ending their nine-year wait for a major trophy, but have also had to endure a coaching change, with Richard Wigglesworth replacing Steve Borthwick in December 2022, after the latter was appointed head coach of England.
And Cullen says while the Tigers will be coming to the Aviva Stadium a year older and wiser, he says the challenge they pose is the same as it always had been.
"They haven't changed their DNA from the time that I was playing over there, and the 20-30 years prior to that," added Cullen, who played for the Tigers between 2005 and 2007.
"The club is based on hard work, some great people there, they'll fight for everything and our guys have been made well aware of it.
"But it's one thing being made aware of it, it’s really having a deep understanding of it. So, again, I think it’s just a great test but when you’re at this stage of the competition you’re going to be playing a very, very good team.
"Leicester are Premiership champions now so there's a difference [to last season]. They were feeling their way back in at that point, they've been in really good form.
"The difference with the 10s and how they play with Pollard v George Ford hasn't changed that dramatically, they still play a very string kicking-based game, with strong fundamentals.
"Leicester would be renowned over the last x many years, a long time, so it's important we need to understand that, and they're still a very proud club, and they have the taste for success. They're coming as English Premiership champions now.
"They've had a bit of transition to the coaching group, but it's the same mindset, Wigglesworth was there as a player/coach, now he's the head man. He's a pretty good understanding of what we do as well."
Wigglesworth was promoted to the role of head coach after Borthwick was headhunted by England in December following the sacking of Eddie Jones.
And Cullen says he expects the visitors to attack the game in a similar way to England, in last month's Six Nations meeting with Ireland in Dublin.
"If you watch that game back, there's a few clues there in terms of a template that Leicester will come with," said the former Ireland second row.
"England frustrated Ireland for large parts of that first-half especially. Obviously, there's a red card before half-time which is a big moment in the game, because Ireland were quite frustrated up to that point.
"I think we need to definitely take some lessons from that game, because there's definitely similarities between a Steve Borthwick coached England versus the Leicester Tigers team we see now because his fingerprint is still on the team."
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