Munster's Fineen Wycherley relishing chance to lock lineout horns with Ulster

“So we’ve looked at what they might do but we've really focused on getting the max out of our stuff, and we feel like that if we get the max of our stuff that'd be good enough to beat their defence."

LOCK HORNS: Fineen Wycherley during Munster rugby squad training at University of Limerick. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Fineen Wycherley is relishing the opportunity to lock lineout horns with Ulster at Ravenhill on Friday night and hoping he can pit his wits against Iain Henderson and fellow former Roscrea forward Cormac Izuchukwu.

The IRFU’s player welfare guidelines on Irish internationals may well intervene with the provinces asked to rest their Test stars in one of the two URC derby games either side of Christmas Day but Wycherley is an admirer of Henderson’s lineout leadership.