Monsoon? Rampaging beasts? Tense Drama? It's like a scene in Jumanji...
Munster will play Toulouse in the Heineken Cup Final at the Millennium Stadium in May after a narrow two-point victory over Saracens.
But Munster didn’t have it all their way, as Kameli Ratuvou crossed for Saracens after only five minutes to show the Irish that they’d be in for a tough 80 minutes.
Ian Dowling had a try disallowed for a forward pass from Rua Tipoki, but Ronan O’Gara’s first of two penalties got Munster back on track, and the tournament’s highest points scorer then claimed his side’s first try in the 25th minute.
And then on the stroke of half time Alan Quinlan gave Munster some breathing space, when the flanker picked up at the base of a ruck and had little trouble manoeuvring past the weak challenges to register under the posts. Despite looking good with the ball in hand Sarries were again paying for a leaky defence.
But the Londoners hadn’t given up, and despite monsoon-like conditions in the second half that turned the Ricoh Arena into a water park, Sarries cut the deficit to two points when Glen Jackson kicked two consecutive penalties. But despite Munster being reduced to 14-men after Tipoki was sin-binned for ten minutes, Sarries failed to take advantage when prop Nick Lloyd was also told to sit out after throwing punches at Denis Leamy.
And hopes of having an English side in the final were all but failing when Census Johnston was forced to join his fellow prop on the sidelines after failing to roll away in a ruck. Despite Jackson scoring his third penalty of the day to ensure a nervy final ten minutes, Munster hung on to make it to their fourth Heineken Cup Final.
And the omens look good for Munster, they last won the Cup in 2006, when the opposition was French, and the venue was the Millennium Stadium.