Munster's Rowntree warns off-field woes will spur Saracens on

Graham Rowntree believes Saracens will be an even more dangerous prospect due to their off-field problems when they visit Munster tomorrow for the sold-out Heineken Champions Cup clash at Thomond Park.

Saracens were docked 35 points by English Premiership bosses last month and fined more than £5.3 million (€6.3m) after being found guilty of breaches in the league’s salary cap.

The point deduction has sent them to the foot of the Premiership table and into a fight for top-flight survival, but far from minimising their threat in Europe, Munster forwards coach Rowntree believes the controversy will spur the defending champions on further when they come to Limerick for a Pool 4 round three contest, the first of the back-to-back rounds that will the province go to north London in eight days.