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Leinster Rugby head coach Leo Cullen expects his team's meeting with Ulster Rugby in the Heineken Champions Cup Round of 16 to be an 'amazing occasion'

“We’ll put a plan together, see how everyone has come through Friday’s game. “So there’s two teams, in terms of selections they’ll know each other very, very well. “That’s the way it goes. “It’s getting close to being a sell-out game, and I think it will be an amazing atmosphere and occasion for Irish rugby, because it’s club rugby, provincial rugby, it’s all that’s good about the game here in many ways and that lays the platform for the international game really. Cullen went on to underline how special an EPCR knockout stage game between two Irish sides will be, at a venue that will host the Heineken Champions Cup and EPCR Challenge Cup finals in May. “There’s so much can happen in this sequence of games, it’s such an unusual sequence of games, different to what’s been before, but it can all be over very quickly and you suddenly have a load of free weekends.