McGahan: Nowhere to hide from here

TAKE a dollop of high intensity training, add some equally tough talk and bake for four days until kick-off time in Toulon.

That’s the Munster recipe for producing what they believe is necessary to keep the Heineken Cup dream alive into the final round of pool play next week. The two-time European champions need their most complete performance of the season at Stade Mayol on Sunday if they are to defeat group leaders Toulon in their own jardin à l’arrière to avoid elimination from the competition they hold most dear.

“Every Heineken Cup campaign reaches a point where you have to win,” Munster head coach Tony McGahan said yesterday after naming a 27-man squad for the mission to the south of France.