Munster agony as Pirates plunder victory

Munster A 6 Cornish Pirates 10

It was a tough end for a Munster side that gave as good as they got throughout an exciting contest. The penalty try was probably inevitable as Cornish Pirates piled on the pressure with a series of strong scrums that forced Munster to concede a succession of penalties before referee Ian Tempest finally lost patience.

But it shouldn’t have come to that. The pressure exerted by the visitors in that sequence was isolated to just that few minutes of a second half dominated by Munster, although not always in the set pieces. Ironically, field position was conceded when Munster coughed up possession from their own lineout throw.