Munster buzzing as Champions Cup draw pits them against revitalised Toulouse

Much has changed since for both sides with the draw in Lausanne, Switzerland coming four days after Munster had sealed a first Guinness PRO14 final berth since that very season. Yet Toulouse are a club reborn

Darren Sweetnam of Munster gets away from the Toulouse defence before scoring his side's third try during the 41-16 hammering of the French side in the 2017 Champions Cup quarter-final at Thomond Park. Picture: Diarmuid Greene/Sportsfile

No wonder there was a buzz around Munster’s High Performance Centre in Limerick as the Toulouse ball came out of the Champions Cup goldfish bowl in Tuesday's Round of 16 draw.

Munster will once again host the aristocrats, four-time champions whose last visit to Thomond Park came at a low point for the French giants. That was in 2017 at the quarter-final stage and Rassie Erasmus’s side put Toulouse to the sword 41-16.