THE lead photograph on page one of Brive’s La Montagne on Saturday suggested it was “David défie Goliath”, and given the paths these two clubs have taken since the start of European rugby competition in 1995, the Amlin Challenge quarter-final was aptly billed.

Munster travel to the Stade Municipal to take on Brive in the Amlin Challenge Cup looking to book a place in the last four of European rugby’s ‘second tier’ competition.

A GEORGIAN rugby player who was in the national squad that came agonisingly close to shocking Ireland at last year’s Rugby World Cup said he is ready to go home and fight for his country if needs be.