Dave Kilcoyne: Beware wounded Tigers

The way Dave Kilcoyne has been charging into contact to keep his team on the front foot of late suggests he is not the sort of player used to treading carefully.

Yet with tomorrow’s return game against a Leicester Tigers side gunning for redemption after their record European defeat at Thomond Park last weekend, the Munster prop knows better than for the province to be heading gung-ho to Welford Road.

Rather than assume another Champions Cup pool win is in the bag given their dominance over the English giants last Saturday, delivering the Tigers’ first European shutout in 13 years, Munster have been striving to improve a performance that reaped four tries and a bonus point in Limerick.