FINAL WORD ON GREAT CHAPTER

Leinster's 2011 comeback against Northampton remembered for inspiring talk

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As it turned out, it was those not on the pitch that would have the ideas, a better understanding of what was happening, in the dressing room.

Continues Sexton of coming in at the break: "It is difficult to know at that time what to think but when you get inside the dressing room at half-time you have to focus quickly and Joe (Schmidt), Leo (Cullen, Feeky and Jamie (Heaslip) all contributed valuable words.

"I spoke ... used the analogy of Liverpool overcoming the odds against AC Milan in the 2005 Champions League final but as a Manchester United supporter I should really have looked to the 1999 final. I still haven't lived that down!

"Joe said something along the lines that '... when we come back from this it'll be folklore' and that struck a chord with me."

But with Feek and half-a-dozen front-rowers, most likely O'Driscoll, D'Arcy and O'Brien not listening and Schmidt having had his say, the room was about to be transfixed.