George Murray is the man crunching the numbers on Munster’s performance

Chances are that as you watch Munster play Stade Francais in Paris today, the television director will cut to a camera trained on the coaches’ box at Stade Jean Bouin.

Your eyes will doubtless focus on Munster head coach Anthony Foley, then drift perhaps to his assistants, Brian Walsh and Ian Costello. And then you might notice the other fellas.

George Murray is one of those and while his name may not be familiar to many, save the AIL diehards who remember him as a Shannon scrum-half, you can rest assured that without him, Munster’s coaches and players would not have been able to prepare for today’s crunch Champions Cup tie as thoroughly as they did.