Munster in rude health for warm-up

A look around the UL Bowl yesterday quickly indicated that Munster should be in a much better position regarding player availability this season than was the case for the Guinness Pro 12 final against Glasgow Warriors only ten weeks ago.

On that occasion, players of the quality of Mike Sherry, Robin Copeland, Dave Foley, Gerhard Van den Heever, Duncan Casey and Tyler Blyendaal were not available to head coach Anthony Foley. All six along with Cian Bohane, Dave O’Callaghan and Shane Buckley were ruled out by injury.

However, the rehab work has paid off and all were present yesterday trying to catch Foley’s eye in the build-up to Friday night’s (7 o’clock) seasonal warm-up game against French side Grenoble at Thomond Park.