Smith keeps Reds going in right direction

Munster 17 Scarlets 6

With just one try on the ledger, a first-half score from Australian new boy Andrew Smith, this was a far from free-flowing performance from Anthony Foley’s team ahead of the trip to Sale Sharks next weekend. However, that was not all the home side’s fault as the game was riddled with poor refereeing decisions from Claudio Blessano.

What was to Munster’s credit, though, was a continuation of that winning feeling revived in Dublin a week ago and a further step away from that horror show at home to Ospreys a fortnight ago. And after a second half against Leinster that featured four players in the sin bin there wasn’t even a card in sight.