Duncan Casey: Munster no longer content with losing valiantly
Munster's Thomas Ahern claims a lineout during the Heineken Champions Cup quarter-final agianst Toulouse at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday. (Photo by Alex Davidson/Getty Images)
Fine margins. Key moments. These are the clichés that invariably get bandied about in the aftermath of a narrow defeat but it’s the truth when analysing Munster's loss to Toulouse. You don’t get a finer margin or more of a key moment than a penalty whizzing past the wrong side of the post by a matter of centimetres in the final kick of the game.
The fact we are talking about such fine margins against the European and French champions highlights how far this Munster side has come, however, and how far they have the potential to go. As my father put it to me, Saturday’s game was ‘a tantalising look at what we can look forward to next season’.
