Gaffney says game plan went to pieces

Harlequins 10 Munster 18

However, reaching the last eight for the seventh successive year, a new tournament record, was surely cause to pull some chins up from the floor.

Coach Alan Gaffney reminded the vultures: “A win is a win. We’ll be hard on ourselves in the clear light of day, obviously we didn’t perform to our capabilities, but if anyone offered us a guaranteed spot in the quarter-finals before the competition began we would have taken it.”