Niall Scannell drew the short straw, hauling his aching body down the corridor to face the media. The Munster hooker had chalked up 54 minutes in a contest of primal attrition and bore one or two scars of the exertion.
The lineout return of 94 per cent was an accolade worth celebrating as a unit against an outsized Toulouse pack, but his contribution was more far reaching in terms of carries, tackles, offloads, and turnovers.
The nature of the defeat naturally inspired a few regrets, but Scannell explained that it cannot define where Munster want to go in performance terms. “”It can’t be the peak and when we turn the page that’s probably the way we are going to look at it. We’ll look at that as a huge stepping stone. There are a lo …
- May 9, 2022
