Nine days ago Munster faced a pivotal couple of games in their season, when successive defeats would have ended their interest in Europe before the quarter-finals for the third season running and left them with little hope of a home tie in the last eight of the URC. It could have been a grim endgame for their coaching ticket.
Instead, back-to-back wins over Exeter and away to Ulster last Friday night have secured both a home quarter-final against Toulouse and elevated them to third in the URC table, thus creating the possibility of a return to Thomond Park a month after the Ed Sheeran concerts.
“That would be brilliant,” admitted Johann van Graan, whose side face Cardiff at Musgrave Park next Friday and finish …
- April 25, 2022
