Leinster’s Reddan wary of wounded Saints

Reddan was one of the try scorers last weekend as his team ran riot at Franklin’s Gardens, claiming a 40-7 Heineken Cup Pool 1 victory.

Northampton and Leinster will lock horns once again on Saturday, with Jim Mallinder’s men desperate to make amends for that home horror show.

And Reddan knows he and his team-mates cannot afford to get complacent as they bid to take another big step towards a quarter-final place.

“When the score goes like that, protection mode kicks in and you know the potential downfalls of that,” said the Ireland international.

“We’ve all obviously played a lot of Heineken Cup now and we know the nature of the back-to-back games and we also know the nature of when you’ve got a wounded animal, especially a big, strong wounded animal back in Dublin next week.

“There’s 40,000 tickets sold already and everyone knows it’s going to be a big game and that kind of atmosphere and crowd, it’ll be another one-off occasion like last Saturday.”