McGahan: No player fitted bill

MUNSTER coach Tony McGahan yesterday moved to separate the fact from the fiction in terms of the province’s reasons for not splashing the cash on a pre-World Cup Hollywood signing.

“There were a number of factors. Just because there’s a player playing (well) somewhere in the world doesn’t mean you can automatically sign him. That’s a typical perception, that you can just pick those names off a tree and sign them. There needs to a right fit for the club, there needs to be a right fit for the player also.

“A lot of the New Zealand players are certainly very happy with Munster, not a lot of them have left, but trying to find that mix that will suit the club and will suit the player coming in — the lifestyle, the country the style of rugby and all that.