Howlett confident Munster can show true colours at Thomond Park

Doug Howlett is confident Munster can bounce back from their opening day defeat to Racing Metro and qualify for the knockout phase of the Heineken Cup.

It has been a torturous week for Rob Penney’s squad watching and squirming as the DVD of Stade de France has been replayed time and again as they attempt to discover why they lost a game they could have killed off in the opening half. Tomorrow is the first opportunity to put the lessons learned into play when Michael Bradley’s Edinburgh come to Thomond. And Howlett is certain that the hosts will produce a performance that can soften the coughs of their critics.

He explained: “We still have everything to play for, we made a couple of costly errors last week but we’re making very good strides overall and I’m confident we’ll put in a better performance to steer us straight.”