Rassie Erasmus: ‘It’s going to be a grind’

A near-frozen Glasgow and an in-form Warriors provide yet another test of this Munster’s side mettle this evening as Rassie Erasmus’s players bid to reach the Champions Cup knockout rounds with a week to spare.

It has been three years since the province has found itself in this position, their fate in the previous two European campaigns having already been decided in less positive circumstances by this stage. So, yet again in this most tumultuous of seasons, this current Munster team finds itself in uncharted waters, searching for a second away win in their pool for the first time since January 2014.

Back then it came at Gloucester, a 20-7 victory for a Rob Penney XV whose names signify a different era, the likes of Casey Laulala and James Downey alongside Munster stalwarts James Coughlan, BJ Botha, Damien Varley and Paul O’Connell.