Plenty of surface issues as 4G derby offers Rowntree a chance to boost signal

Munster will have to try and fix their problems against a Connacht side desperately eager to please the home supporters on their new pitch

Plenty to ponder: Munster Head Coach Graham Rowntree and assistant Denis Leamy watch training in Limerick this week. Pic: INPHO/Ben Brady

Galway’s Sportsground on a Friday night is not the easiest place in the world to arrive at with an embryonic gameplan and a case of the butterfingers. But that is exactly where Munster will have to try and fix their problems against a Connacht side desperately eager to please the home supporters.

In truth, neither side is close to firing on all cylinders yet as Andy Friend’s Connacht prepare to open their new 4G artificial playing surface having lost the opening three games of their BKT United Rugby Championship campaign away from home. They don't even have a losing bonus point to show for their efforts at Ulster, Stormers and Bulls.