O’Connell: Munster’s morale as high as ever

MUNSTER skipper Paul O’Connell insists “the morale of the team is the same as it ever was” despite back-to-back defeats against Leinster and Northampton.

O’Connell and company bid to get their Heineken Cup campaign back on track on Saturday against Benetton Treviso and the squad have been pouring over the video of Saturday’s narrow defeat to the Saints at Franklin’s Gardens in an effort to rediscover the winning formula.

O’Connell was unequivocal when asked if he felt, in hindsight, that the wrong choice had been made at the death by going for a tap penalty instead of a set piece. He replied: “Our scrum was in trouble. We weren’t getting any great amount of good ball and that was the decision.”