‘Now we must up our game’

Rob Penney will be more concerned with a progress report than anything else when Munster take on London Irish at Musgrave Park this evening (7pm).

However, that will not detract the new coach from wanting a positive result from a game that, by his own admission, is about working out how to sort out his best starting 15.

With 12 players missing, Penney has been thrown straight into a very tough job that means a lot of youngsters are trying to make their way through.