Stephen Archer insists records are meant to be broken as he dismissed the significance of Leinster's dominance over Munster at the Aviva Stadium.
The Reds have played 18 times at Lansdowne Road and have only won twice there so far.
They beat Connacht in the URC at the start of this season and, in 13 meetings with Leinster at the venue, their sole victory came in the 2014-15 season.
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Archer recalls that one with a smile, especially the moment that a team-mate saved his bacon.
"I remember Ian Keatley got an intercept," he said. "I got beaten by Eoin Reddan at pillar and he sprinted half the pitch and I was running back thinking, 'oh f***'.
"And then the phase, pass, and Keatley got it under the posts. I got away with that one.
"We're playing technically the top club team in the world so you won't be giving us a chance, but we have good belief in ourselves and we'll put in a good show on Saturday."
Archer is just eight games off beating Donncha O'Callaghan's Munster appearance record that stands at 268 and is likely to be the only one of the squad's oldest surviving members to start on Saturday.
Given that, the 35-year-old should have the most mental baggage given the beatings that Leinster have dished out over the years.
But he insists there is none to deal with this week. "Not from my experience anyway," said the Corkman. "I just clear it out. It's a new squad, a new day for me, anyway.
"Our record? Yeah, it isn't a great record. But records are meant to be broken, aren't they?
"You tend to put past things behind you. You'd have to take great confidence after our last few weeks, we've gone to difficult places and won so look, we'll take big confidence from that.
"I'm a bit more relaxed going into games now. It's definitely more enjoyable.
"And even being with the younger lads in the squad, they give you a good lease of life. You look back and think, 'Jesus, I was like that one day'. Ah, it's nice."
Missing almost four months of the season adds to his sense of enthusiasm now.
The twice-capped Ireland prop suffered a bad ankle injury in October, just as he was getting up to full speed, and had to fight for game time when he was fit to return in the new year.
Archer admitted: "You'd be going, 'ah, for f***'s sake'. You're trying to fight for a contract for next season and it's, 'will I, won't I? Will I bother even doing this?'.
"So there's a lot of questioning of yourself but I was happy even coming back to training, it was good to get back in with the lads when they were preparing for matches."
Archer has been at the centre of Munster's fortunes since the damaging last 16 Champions Cup defeat at the Sharks.
Together, the Reds pulled themselves out of that disappointment to qualify for the tournament next season by earning a win and a draw in South Africa, then beating Glasgow away in last week's URC quarter-final.
"They (the coaches) told us a few home truths and we took it on board, had a good, long look at ourselves and we agreed to work harder than we had," Archer said.
"So to go down and do the job gave us massive satisfaction. It gave us momentum and we've just rolled on since then. We're happy with where we are now."
So much so that he dismisses suggestions from some that Munster might be better off in the Challenge Cup next term and building from there. "Nonsense," said Archer.
"People don't want to go watching the Challenge Cup here in this lovely stadium (Thomond Park). Yeah, nonsense. Munster have to be in the Champions Cup, it's non-negotiable. Hence the relief in Cape Town."
He has another one year contract bagged. And after that? He has a degree in food business and he may look to open a cafe or a restaurant, or to go into food supply. Full time coaching definitely does not appeal.
"I've seen them and it's tough going, like," he smiled.
"The fun side is playing and being out there training, but Jesus the coaches would be out there and they're analysing and all that. And it's a small pool (of coaching positions available) around Ireland.
"I do a lot of commuting from Cork to Limerick and obviously I'm away from home a lot. So I'll leave my family off that!".
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