Munster and Varley to be right for Toulouse

Munster hooker Damien Varley is confident his injured foot — and indeed Munster’s all round game — will be just fine when the province welcomes European giants Toulouse to Thomond Park for Saturday’s Heineken Cup quarter-final showdown.

Varley, currently managing a painful foot condition called plantar fascitis, fell prey to the problem during the second half of Munster’s 22-18 league defeat by Leinster at the Aviva Stadium last Saturday night and, like his team’s less than fluent performance, he believes normal service will be resumed against the four-time Heineken Cup champions in Limerick this weekend.

Of his troublesome foot, Varley said: “I just got a bit of a twinge on it. Precautionary reasons [for being substituted] really. We’ll reassess it early on in the week and hopefully everything will be fine.”