QUIETLY but emphatically, Munster coach Declan Kidney made no secret of his disappointment at losing yesterday’s Heineken Cup game in Clermont. His only consolation was that the side did enough to claim a bonus point, their third in five matches, a point that leaves them very much in contention for a quarter-final place after Saturday’s visit of London Wasps to Thomond Park.

Munster have secured a bonus point in a 26-19 loss to Clermont Auvergne that almost certainly sends the French side out of the 2007/8 Heineken Cup.

HE HASN’T gone away you know. He’s 34, has already won a record 83 caps for Munster in the Heineken Cup (also a tournament record), but yesterday in Limerick, when coach Declan Kidney named a squad of 26 for Sunday’s crucial away group game against Clermont, there he was again — Anthony Foley.