Ronan O'Gara: Big decisions ahead for Munster and Mike Prendergast

Stphen Larkham leaving as attack coach creates a big opportunity for Munster to go after one of their own. The issue: Is Mike Prendergast interested in coming home at the moment?

Mike Prendergast, left, with Munster head coach Johann van Graan after the Champions Cup clash in November 2019. Ronan O’Gara believes Prendergast could be the right man to fill the void left by Stephen Larkham’s departure. Picture: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

It's been difficult not to empathise with the Munster lads marooned in South Africa. Not least for the fact that, after everything, they got no URC game played down there and face a return trip to the southern hemisphere in the spring during the Six Nations.

With some of the group still in Cape Town and the vast majority heading into isolation quarantine at home, it’s impossible to expect that Munster will be at the pitch of it when they run out for the start of the European Champions Cup in Coventry next weekend.