Horan pours scorn on Ledesma taunt tactics

IF the Castres captain Mario Ledesma hoped to intimidate his Munster rivals with his verbal attack during last week’s Ireland-Argentina after-match dinner, he has failed dismally where Marcus Horan is concerned.

Horan witnessed Ledesma’s antics. It was all a waste of time. The Munster loose head declared: “What do you expect from guys like that? They’ve been known for keeping it going after matches. It was disappointing to see that. A lot of them were very nice guys, they could be loud and still be friendly, but some were throwing their weight around a bit. That’s all part of it and we’ll be expecting a lot of it on Friday as well. We’ll be waiting for them.”

Horan is a very happy man to be in the south of France at all. Firstly, there was the threat of a long suspension hanging over him because of the disgraceful action of the Ospreys in citing him for a racial comment he never made during the recent game at The Gnoll. That subject is now consigned to history and it hasn’t left any mental scars on the 25-year-old Clonlara man.