A job well done by Munster

Munster38 Rotherham 19

But the 3,000 who turned up for last night's visit of Rotherham were reasonably well satisfied with what they saw. Alan Gaffney fielded the majority of those players available to him and that meant valuable game time for people like Keith Wood, John Hayes, David Wallace and Rob Henderson, all returning after major injury problems. This distinguished quartet were all prominent, as the visitors, promoted to the English Premiership at the end of last season, were run off their feet in the first 20 minutes or so after which Munster led by 17 points to nil.

Subsequently, the edge went off the home performance and they were unable to add to the scoreline before the end of 40 minutes. Having come through last week's international against Wales, Wood again showed no signs of the injury that has threatened his career over the past 12 months or so. He put in some good hits and made a few trademark bursts although he also displayed a familiar propensity for using the boot on the ball I stress when launching one aimless kick down the middle of the park.