Revitalised Murphy eager to wallop Wallabies

ONLY one team scored a try against the All Blacks on their Grand Slam tour of the Northern Hemisphere in 2008 – and it wasn’t Scotland, Ireland, England or Wales.

The honour went to Munster, who frightened the lives out of the New Zealanders on a memorable night at Thomond Park before they scraped a win through a late, late Joe Rokocoko try. The man to breach the tourists’ line was Barry Murphy. It’s an achievement he’ll dine on for the rest of his days.

“I hear the question often comes up at table quizzes,” he mused. “I didn’t have to do a huge amount, the scrum did the work and Strings (Peter Stringer) spotted the gap and all I had to do was touch it down but it’s a nice one to have.