Warriors coach Gregor Townsend believes his men are coming into top form for the business end of the season despite blowing a 20 points lead in Dublin.

Glasgow seemed poised for a facile win when they led 27-7 at the interval in a remarkable game at the RDS but this repeat of last year's final was turned on its head in the second-half.

Leinster, champions for the past two years, came storming back and it took a late try from Glenn Bryce and a conversion from the left by Peter Horne to salvage a draw on a night when both sides left with three points.

Townsend reckons that his men are showing the sort of form which will again see them bid for honours and possibly bring the title to Scotland for the first time.

"We seem to get a real focus at this stage of the season. In the last two years we have played really well. I think we have only lost one game in the remaining five or six games in the last two seasons.

"We know it is going to be really tough but we have players that are hungry and want to play. We have got good depth in our squad which was shown during the Six Nations so it is up to us coaches to do our jobs right so that they can play."

The sin-binning of scrum-half Niko Matawalu in the second-half proved costly as Leinster, having introduced a string of Six Nations heroes, struck for 14 points.

"I thought at the beginning of that sin-binning period we conceded a couple of soft tries but then at the end of it we were so much more resilient. And we just needed the ball, we hadn't seen the ball for 20-25 minutes in the second-half where we had most of the ball in the first-half," added Townsend.

His men tore Leinster part in the opening half for Stuart Hogg, Richie Vernon and Mark Bennett to race in for quality tries and Townsend knows they could have been out of sight by the break.

"There were a couple of occasions that I was frustrated with, there was a five-metre line-out that we didn't connect with our jumpers and we had another play that we had crossing.

"But that maybe is expected because this team hasn't played together since January. The rest of it was excellent, tactically we were spot on. We kicked a lot and we wanted to play the first 20 minutes in the Leinster half and we achieved that and then we took our opportunities and some fantastic running lines from our backs."

Experienced scrum-half Isaac Boss made a huge difference when drafted in for Leinster and he crossed for two tries, forcing Warriors to mount a later salvage operation with Bryce, who had a clearance blocked down for Boss' first try, redeeming himself with a fourth Glasgow try six minutes from time.

The race for knockout places, especially home advantage, looks set to go down to the wire and Townsend reckons it will be eve closer this season.

"It makes it a worrying time, a stressful time for the coaches because the last few years the top four have detached themselves from the rest at this stage of the season.

"We know how good Leinster are, we know how they will improve as well with their internationals back so they will be going all out to win their last remaining games. We have got some big games coming up so you just have to focus on getting as many points as possible," he added.