Mike Haley: 'We're targeting this as a massive game'

Mike Haley wants Munster to hit the ground running in Sunday's Heineken Champions Cup game against Harlequins

Chris Ashton’s suspicions that his Harlequins team can expect “both barrels” from Munster in Sunday’s Heineken Champions Cup opener at Thomond Park were never going to be that far off the mark.

Mike Haley has confirmed the former England wing’s not too speculative hunch with the assertion that the new, condensed one-off format for European club rugby’s premier competition this season will require the men in red to hit the ground running on home soil in this first of just four pool games.