Heaslip: If anyone can tame Toulon it’s Munster

Rob Penney claimed last Saturday that he would have preferred the two-hour drive to Dublin over the two-hour flight to France later this month, but Toulon in Marseille’s Stade Velodrome it will be for the Munster coach.

The province has narrated many a famous victory on the continent in the history of the Heineken Cup but the scale of their last trek to France under the competition’s current guise was laid bare at the Stade Felix Mayol on Sunday.

Toulon weren’t perfect against Leinster, yet still had something to spare against the three-time champions.