United Rugby Championship: Leinster v MunsterKick-off: 7.15pm. Venue: Aviva Stadium, Dublin. On TV: Live on TG4, Premier Sports.
Secure in pole position and safe from the chasing peloton, Leinster are assured of a home route potentially all the way through to the URC final.
For Munster, the stakes are altogether higher. They go into the final full round of matches knowing that they’ll need a win to copper fasten a quarter-final in Thomond Park while a defeat could condemn them to another trek to South Africa or Belfast in the last eight a fortnight hence.
Leinster also have their eyes on the bigger prize of the Champions Cup final next Saturday in Marseilles whereas for Munster this is their sole chance to end a decade without silverware.
Hence, Leo Cullen has named an entirely new starting XV while allowing those who dissected Toulouse in last week’s Champions Cup semi-final a two week run-in to the Marseilles decider against La Rochelle. Not that this hungry side will lack for motivation, not with ticket sales of 34,000 as of Friday, and Munster in town.
Interestingly, although L …
- May 21, 2022
