Jacques Nienaber on next Thomond visit: 'I don't think they'll be buying me pints'

Nienaber will be well ensconced in the Leinster coaching ticket by the time they appear at Thomond on St Stephen’s Day and his return will come just over six years after his last involvement with Munster.

OLD STOMPING GROUND: Senior coach Jacques Nienaber during a Leinster Rugby media conference at UCD in Dublin. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Leinster players and supporters are accustomed to the ‘warm’ welcome that awaits when they pitch up at Thomond Park come Christmas and Jacques Nienaber certainly isn’t expecting it to be any different for him later this month.

A two-time World Cup-winning coach with South Africa, Nienaber has now swapped the Springboks’ green livery for Leinster blue having once worn Munster red during a 16-month stint in Limerick as part of Rassie Erasmus’s staff.