‘Sometimes you have to win a bit ugly’

Munster 26 Gloucester 10

If any of the 23,510 of Munster persuasion who departed Saturday’s night Pool 6 clash with an understrength Gloucester side felt frustrated by a less than fluent display from their team, it was understandable.

Yet in the context of what had gone before at Murrayfield seven days previously, when Munster’s world had come crashing down around them with a thoroughly miserable opening pool defeat to Edinburgh, getting a European campaign back on track with any kind of victory was the over-riding priority.