Flannery facing up to battle of the Millennium

JERRY FLANNERY is one of a number of Munster players in today’s Irish team who insists the 2006 and 2008 Heineken Cup final wins at the Millennium Stadium don’t give them an edge in this evening’s Grand Slam decider.

Flannery simply says: “What I draw from having played in two Heineken Cup finals at the Millennium Stadium is knowing how big the occasion is going to be.

“It’s having the experience of all those big occasions and knowing about all the noise and being able to cut through to what is important and being able to focus on your own performance. As players, we would be very foolish to regard it as anything other than just another big game.”