Holland: You don’t want to meet lads with the Grand Slam in their pockets and we’re after losing in Edinburgh

Ireland’s bid for Grand Slam glory is acting as a motivational tool for Billy Holland who leads Munster in Friday night’s rearranged Guinness PRO14 game against Edinburgh.

“An Irish team going over to Twickenham in search of a Grand Slam is pretty historic,” Holland explained.

“The lads will be glad to have won the Six Nations but knowing the characters in that team, they won’t be happy with that, they’ll want to write themselves into the history books with a Grand Slam. It’s going to be a very difficult task but I know they are well up to it.”