Denis Leamy is sticking to his guns that Munster's URC title triumph in May deserves to be rated among the province's best successes.
The Reds host the Stormers - the side they memorably beat in the final in Cape Town - at Thomond Park on Saturday.
For Leamy, who was involved in the province's two Heineken Cup final victories, Munster's winning run on the road to the end of last season is in the conversation with those European successes as the Reds' best campaigns.
"I think as a competition it is really brilliant," said the ex-Ireland back row of the URC.
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"I believe that trophy - having to go to South Africa, beating a really good Leinster team and going to Glasgow to play a phenomenal, physically challenging team like Glasgow, to obviously get ourselves into position in the season itself.
"I think it ranks right up there.
"I really do think it was a win of huge value to the province. I really feel that the competition brings a lot of kudos with it."
The first meeting of the two finalists since that decider takes place at Thomond Park on Saturday.
"There will be huge excitement about this game" he said.
"Look, the World Cup has gone through the system now, it's over a few weeks at this stage, the appetite for domestic rugby is really starting to pick up.
"I hope we have a good crowd in Thomond Park, I've no doubt that they will bring a huge atmosphere."
Leamy insists Munster have no complaints about how ref Frank Murphy handled the endgame of their defeat to Ulster last Friday night.
Analysing the game on RTE, ex-Ulster star Darren Cave felt that the Munster players should have complained to Murphy about the amount of penalties Ulster were conceding late on at Kingspan Stadium.
The hosts successfully held on to win 21-14 - consigning the defending URC champions to their first defeat of the new campaign.
Asked if he was pleased with Munster's game management late on, defence coach Leamy replied: "We were.
"We went out with the policy of letting the referee do his job. The ref asked us to do that, and we did that.
"I thought Diarmuid (Barron) did extremely well in that as a young captain. I thought he handled our players really, really well and you have to let the ref do his job and interpret what he's seeing.
"I was happy, we were happy with all that sort of stuff, that hasn't been discussed here. It's not something we've put a lot of thinking into."
It has been widely speculated that Munster are favourites to sign Oli Jager, the Crusaders prop. Speaking on a media call yesterday, Leamy was keeping his cards very close to his chest.
"I don't know anything about that," smiled the former Reds star.
"Wig (head coach Graham Rowntree) is the only man in this building that will know anything about that. I can't help you on that one.
"I stood beside him once, I know he's bigger and heavier than me, so that's about all I know about him!".
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