Leinster adopt Munster war cry

‘STAND Up and Fight’ may be Munster’s rallying cry but it is one that has to all intents and purposes been adopted this week by a Leinster side hoping to vent its early-season frustrations on the provincial cousins.

Shane Horgan led the calls to arms last Monday by challenging his Leinster team-mates to eradicate the individual errors that have plagued the team’s start to the Magners League and Brian O’Driscoll echoed those words at a press briefing yesterday.

“They are the ones who are bringing good form into the fixture,” he said of Munster ahead of tomorrow’s derby at the Aviva Stadium. “We feel we have left a lot of our best rugby behind us in the last few weeks and we have a point to prove as players in that we haven’t become a bad team overnight.