It’s vital vintage Reds turn up, warns Penney

Munster will have to produce the best game they have ever played if they are to overcome Toulon in Marseille next Sunday and reach the Heineken Cup final, head coach Rob Penney has warned.

The two-time winners must travel to Stade Veledrome to face the defending champions and French league leaders, who comprehensively defeated Leinster in the quarter-finals and boast an expensively assembled squad packed with World Cup winners and game-breakers.

Penney, potentially facing his last European fixture as Munster boss before departing for Japan at the end of the season, recognises the last-four clash is one to be relished but following his side’s 32-23 league win over Connacht on Saturday in Galway he underlined the size of the task facing them.