Boss Penney builds bonds in great outdoors

Pre-season is all about building for the new campaign but Munster’s players have been taking the concept literally after pitching their tents in Tralee earlier this month.

Munster put the finishing touches to their pre-season preparations in Cork tonight when London Irish visit Musgrave Park (7pm) ahead of the province’s September 1 RaboDirect Pro12 opener at Edinburgh.

Yet getting to this point involved some team-building of a different kind when Munster’s newly arrived head coach Rob Penney took the players on a training camp in Kerry and told them to erect their own accommodation.