Munster supporters won’t have to walk more than 20 minutes tomorrow to satisfy all their needs on a pivotal day in the province’s history in a competition which they have graced from the outset.

The journey from Clermont-Ferrand to Montpellier takes just over three hours on the A75. It is a fairly spectacular drive, across the Massif Central, down into valleys and rising sharply over the next mountains in a landscape shaped by volcanoes.