Quinlan: Semi-final ‘performance anxiety’ developing in Munster

ALAN QUINLAN believes Munster have developed a complex aboutsemi-finals because they’ve been too anxious and worked up.

Tony McGahan’s side have lost four semi-finals over the past 24 months and while Quinlan maintains that Munster will rebound as a major force in European club rugby after hisimminent retirement, he admitted their dismal recent record in thepenultimate round of competitions is disconcerting heading into tomorrow’s Magners League semi-final against Ospreys in Thomond Park.

Munster’s semi-final jinx began with their 2009 Heineken Cup defeat to Leinster after which Quinlan wassuspended for an altercation with Leo Cullen.