McGahan weighs up options

MUNSTER coach Tony McGahan was last night revising his strategy and schedule for the coming week in the wake of another weekend of inactivity for his rugby stars.

Yesterday’s Magners League postponement meant more than half of the selected side will go into Saturday’s Heineken Cup game in Treviso without a match since December 20th in Perpignan. McGahan picked Jean de Villiers ahead of Lifeimi Mafi for the postponed Scarlets game and Niall Ronan in a reshuffled back-row in place of long term injury victim Denis Leamy.

But McGahan cautioned: “It won’t necessarily be the same team because the intention was to look at a number of different combinations, whether they started the game or whether they finished the game. We had scenarios in our heads to look at different players both in the forwards and backs at different points in the game. That has been taken away from us without any ability to make a final decision based on playing time. So we’ll go back and look at those selections.”