The Well narrowly beaten by Young Munster

Young Munster 28 Sunday’s Well 26

This was exactly the kind of game Munsters would have lost last season when they suffered the ignominy of relegation, having been top-four just one year previously. Wind-assisted in the first half, by the 26th minute they had built up a comfortable 14-6 lead, including a 70m intercept try by late wing replacement Alan Brosnan.

Scrum-half Mike Prendergast was orchestrating things well, and Munsters looked set to build on that lead, when the malaise of last season set in. From a position where they looked comfortably the better side, they conceded the initiative to a determined Well fifteen.