Perpignan send out a warning to Munster

PERPIGNAN, Munster’s opponents in the all-important Heineken Cup Pool 2 tie on January 11, once again demonstrated their potential on Sunday when running up 39 points without reply against Narbonne in the French Club Championship.

Perpignan have run into an impressive vein of form in recent weeks highlighted, of course, by their comprehensive victory over Gloucester in the Heineken Cup ten days ago. Narbonne, it will be recalled, went down by a point on aggregate to Connacht.

It is now unlikely that Munster’s backroom team will have the opportunity of seeing Perpignan in action at first hand before January 11th but coach Alan Gaffney points out that he is in possession of the video of the French side’s most recent outing against Gloucester and, of course, they have also been over there earlier in the season as well.