O’Mahony issue poorly handled by Munster

What a terrible pity Connacht couldn’t come good in that last-ditch siege on the Saracens line in their opening Heineken Cup pool game at the Sportsground last Friday night.

Trailing by six points after a heroic second half performance against the unbeaten Aviva Premiership leaders, what a shot across the bow of the over-inflated English teams that would have been.

Had the men from the west managed to down the colours of the Nigel Wray-financed club, it would have caused more than a little embarrassment to the PRL faction in the current European impasse. The fact that the Scarlets, another Rabo side, managed to clip the wings of Harlequins at The Stoop offered some measure of consolation.