One of Ireland’s greatest coaching personalities, Declan Kidney, once said during his second reign as Munster Rugby head coach - one that saw the Cork man guide his province to European Cups in 2006 and 2008 - that “if you keep knocking, the door will eventually open”. Munster had been to two finals (in 2000 and ’02) and lost; then, against all odds, his teams realised what some deemed the impossible dream.