Favourites tag does not rest easily with Payne

SHAUN PAYNE laughs at the conundrum. Munster win away from home against a tough French outfit, but arrive home to find the question on everyone’s lips is: “What went wrong?”

The Munster full-back is a little dismayed by the fact that Munster fans expected their team “to breeze in and out of there” and win comfortably.

There is, he says, a little bit of self-delusion going on here.