Shock treatment for McGahan

MUNSTER coach Tony McGahan received a soberingmessage at Ravenhill on Saturday night — the thrust of it being that second-string teams don’t often survive the Belfast rugby experience.

As his Munster players enjoy a mid-term break, McGahan will spend much of the week examining what could best be described as a rugby version of a video nasty, a recording that will reveal a technically flawed and error-strewn display by a team that was not up to this Magners League task.

In his disappointment at the first loss of the season, McGahan didn’t mask his annoyance at the failure to fulfil the promise he expected.