Leamy braced for the French fury

FOR all the wrong reasons, Denis Leamy has every reason to remember his last visit to Stade Aime Giral.

Leamy made his Heineken Cup debut off the bench that day and the outcome, a 23-8 loss, didn’t make happy reading for a team coming off a second cup final appearance the previous season.

In a desperately tight group, where Perpignan and Gloucester provided dogged opposition alongside whipping boys Viadana, that cold January day might have signalled the end of Munster’s interest in the competition.