Seconds out…round three

IT isn’t just wishful thinking that leads me to believe that Alan Gaffney and Munster can fly out of England’s west country tonight with a major scalp in the cargo hold.

It may be fanciful to suggest that the men in red will succeed at Kingsholm, where so many themselves included have so palpably failed over the years.

But this is a Munster team of vast experience, one that likes nothing better than going into the lion's den and emerging with a fairytale result. Just ask Leicester, Stade Francais, Toulouse, Bourgoin and Castres to mention but a few who believed they were impregnable on home territory only to find out different.