Leinster V Munster - a rugby rivalry famous around the world

Call it what you like, and many people have this week, but tomorrow’s derby between Leinster and Munster at Aviva Stadium never fails to capture the imagination.

Rassie Erasmus may have called Munster’s Guinness PRO14 visit to Dublin “a training match” in preparation for the European pool games ahead but even the South African must realise by now that this is an interprovincial dust-up that cannot be underplayed.

Munster’s director of rugby told radio and online reporters on Monday: “Now it’s a PRO14 game away to Leinster and after that we play Europe, so it’s going to be a great training match with physicality and intensity and pressure that we will experience. It was the same last year and hopefully we can use that going into Europe.”