‘We are encouraging all the players to work on their skills’

It is not just Racing 92 who possess the talents to unlock opposition defences. Not if you are talking to Stephen Larkham at any rate.

Munster’s senior coach looks around a squad boosted by the return of a dozen Ireland internationals for this evening’s Heineken Champions Cup Pool 4 clash with the galacticos and sees a group of players with skills offering him a variety of ways to attack the Top14 side at Thomond Park.