IS THIS THE YEAR BLUES GET IT DONE?

Leinster v Harlequins 5.30pm

- BY GARRY DOYLE

LEINSTER roll back into Europe today with the ghosts of every bottle job, hard luck tale and late collapse rattling behind them like chains in a haunted house.

Six years. Six gut punches. Saracens twice. La Rochelle on repeat. Toulouse, then Saints. If European rugby kept a heartbreak league table, Leinster would be champions of that all day long.

Now the whole circus starts again - Harlequins up first, a pool opener that could tell us exactly where Leinster are headed.