Heading in the right direction

You know the landscape is changing when Munster have to employ every marketing strategy in the book to fill Thomond Park for a Heineken Cup pool game.

Being offered the dawn shift at 12.45 on a Sunday certainly doesn’t help.

After successive road trips to Heineken Cup champions Leinster, RaboDirect champions Ospreys and Racing Metro in Paris yielded nothing in terms of a win, Munster returned to Limerick yesterday hoping to draw strength and inspiration from their spiritual home.