Munster’s golden opportunity for a home quarter-final

Did it really matter what sort of team Racing 92 would send? The French champions could have brought a squad of U16s to Limerick for this evening’s Champions Cup pool finale at Thomond and there would still be no sign of a let-up from Rassie Erasmus’s players.

This is all about Munster.

With 11 wins accrued from the last 12 games, the bit is now firmly between their teeth and their mission to secure a home quarter-final will not lose any intensity because the opposition has switched its focus away from Europe to matters domestic. Racing will field a side featuring all their France squad call-ups as their contingent of homegrown stars play one final game before going into Six Nations camp with Les Bleus.