Payne resigned to battling on without Flannery

MUNSTER don’t expect a definitive report on the calf injury that forced Jerry Flannery out of last week’s Heineken Cup game against Toulon until later in the week.

Manager Shaun Payne admits that they are now resigned to doing without the hooker’s services for the foreseeable future. Flannery is the only member of last week’s 23-man panel not included in a preliminary squad of 28 announced yesterday for Benetton Treviso’s Magners League visit to Thomond Park on Friday night.

“We’ll see what comes back from the MRI scans,” said Munster manager Shaun Payne. Flannery saw a specialist in Cork yesterday so the results of that wont be known until later in the week but Payne stressed, “There is no fellow who works harder when it comes to rehabilitation or gives you more effort so there is great disappointment for him.”