Foley focus on shortcomings after latest great escape

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Another season, another great escape and the Munster legend is enhanced a little more. The supporters love it, the pundits purr and the television cameras lap up every last second of it, grateful that the Irish province in red can keep delivering just the sort of drama that helps justify their investment in the broadcasting rights.

Human nature is such that we prefer the dramatic and dashing last-ditch heroics to the dull dominance of a sporting master at work. Yet coaches tend not to be in possession of vast amounts of human nature and will give their right arm and possibly a portion of their left one too for just a taste of the sort of mastery that sends armchair viewers reaching for the remote control.