Red alert as Munster on mission to scratch a seven-year-itch
Yet, in the words of their vanquished captain Isa Nacewa in the aftermath of his team’s loss to Scarlets at the RDS last Friday night, “it’s going to be a long summer”.
Defeats at this time of the year tend to linger, especially when, after the grind and toil of a long campaign, they come in the knockout phase and all of a sudden your season is over with nothing tangible to show for all that effort.
