Fans relieved as Munster finally lift the gloom

If a novelist came up with it, you’d say the scene was overcooked.

As Munster warmed up last night in Musgrave Park for their Pro12 game with Edinburgh, the sun threw lengthy shadows across the field, but rolling in over Mahon was a heavy cloud and the promise of plenty of rain. Forbidding, overcast, gloomy.

An entire season, encapsulated in a single scene? Could we invent a breeze from the south to clear the clouds? Please: less is more when it comes to symbolism.