Anthony Foley: I just want to coach, hopefully that’ll happen

Anthony Foley has acknowledged that the combination of an inexperienced coaching ticket and a playing-group shorn of veteran players through injury and retirement saw Munster struggle to compete this season.

Munster scraped into this summer’s Champions Cup pool draw for 2016-17 thanks to a last-round victory over Scarlets at Thomond Park on Saturday that secured sixth place in the final Guinness Pro12 standings.

Yet the failure to reach the knockout stages in Europe for the second season in a row and inconsistent league form which has seen Munster finish as the worst of the Irish provinces for the first time has seen chief executive Garrett Fitzgerald and the Professional Games Board appoint South African Johan ‘Rassie’ Erasmus as director of rugby for next season, downgrading Foley’s role in the organisation.