D’Arcy: We must up game by 20%

Victories over Munster at Thomond Park have been rare commodities in Gordon D’Arcy’s rugby career.

So Leinster’s 18-9 Saturday night success in the heart of enemy territory is one which the Irish international enjoyed immensely but with a Heineken Cup quarter-final this weekend filling the champions’ horizon, the thrill of victory will be short-lived.

D’Arcy admitted: “It’s not a feeling we get very often so it’s one we will savour. We have come here before, attacked for 40 minutes and then lost momentum; we know what happens when you do that against Munster. On Saturday we were very attack minded and that suits me. But come Monday we will have forgotten about the Munster game. It goes back to being professional, it has to be one game at a time and we have a seven day lead into the game. It is something we have become quite good at — by Monday lunch time the game at the weekend is done and dusted — and then we start focusing on the next one.”