Ospreys give shaky Munster a wake-up call

ONE of Munster’s few consolations after their second successive Magners League defeat at their once impregnable Thomond Park fortress is that they rarely play well in the week prior to a crucial Heineken Cup game.

By their own admission, they were well beaten by a talented and fired up Ospreys side that performed with the class, commitment and sense of purpose lacking too often in the past meetings of the sides.

However, it’s not all doom and gloom for Munster who, as the Ospreys coach Sean Holley insisted, can learn from this experience. After all, they only lost by one score and had Ronan O’Gara been more accurate – he missed two out of six while opposite number Dan Biggar knocked over five out of five – would almost certainly have won.