Gaffney hoping for a change of fortune

ON SUNDAY, six months to the day after his last game in charge of Munster, Alan Gaffney returned to Irish shores.

The assistant Australian coach will be praying fervently that when he leaves again later this week he will have one last happy memory of the Emerald Isle to take with him.

Gaffney began his new job with the ARU just three days after that Celtic Cup final victory over Llanelli at Lansdowne Road and, at first, everything went swimmingly with the new employer.