“We never discussed actually playing the way we did play, we just went that way.”

BEYOND the romance, the reality.

“We never discussed actually playing the way we did play, we just went that way.”

There’s a natural tendency to lean on the old Munster fall-backs on a morning like this. You can draw them around you like comfortable clothes: being written off. Having the bitterness. Producing when backs are to the wall.

Take a step back, though, and you can see beyond the fuzz to the hard-edged professionalism. Often post-match quotes can be boilerplate filler, but there were some interesting nuggets to be found if you looked closely after Munster’s win for the ages last Sunday.

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