Kidney keeps focus on challenge ahead

MUNSTER are unlikely to take their eye off the ball with the likes of Declan Kidney and Paul O’Connell at the helm.

Moments after watching his team enhance an unbeaten Thomond Park record with a fair degree of aplomb, Munster coach Kidney warned of the challenges to be overcome to reach the knockout stages of the Heineken Cup, stressing Munster’s participation in the last eight was not guaranteed.

“There’s a long road to travel yet,” he said. “At the start of October, we would have been happy to say we were still alive in the competition at this stage; we have done a small bit more than that.”