Munster season review: Head coach and squad deserve better conditions to succeed

We have seen this movie before, an earnest and brave Munster team’s involvement in a competition brought to a crashing end by a superior opponent. Yet never with quite such an air of inevitability as Saturday’s URC quarter-final exit in Pretoria.

Both matchday captain Crag Casey and head coach Clayton McMillan refused to hide behind a lengthy list of injuries after the 45-14 defeat to a Bulls side looking every inch the title contenders Munster could not hope to be at Loftus Versfeld.

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