Out in the cold and ignored Reid still oozes class

They say on the Semple Stadium turf you’re never a boy. Always a giant. So too perhaps in Thomond Park.

On that particular piece of acreage in that particular corner of the province, it’s never a friendly. Always a battle.

But maybe not on Tuesday night. If the Munster crowd are famed for putting in as much as a shift as their famous front row, on this occasion they were off the clock.