Homegrown hero aims to bring Munster glory

DAVE Pusey and Tom Bowman were good, solid second-rows who did well for Munster, despite being in the shade of Paul O’Connell and Donncha O’Callaghan.

However, they lacked the ingredient that might have endeared them more to Munster fans they weren't Munster men in the first place.

So when it was revealed Pusey and Bowman were leaving and Mick O'Driscoll was returning to the fold after two years with Perpignan in the south of France, there was rejoicing that 'one of our own' was returning.