Peter Malone not giving up on knock-out place for Munster A

It won’t be easy, but Munster A head coach Peter Malone believes his side have a fighting chance of getting through to the knock-out stages of the B&I Cup.

At least, it is all in their own hands after tournament holders and favourites London Welsh went down the financial tubes to leave Munster, Rotherham and Doncaster fighting it out to make it through to the last eight from their group.

Because there are only three sides now left in the Munster pool it makes matters more complicated, but Malone explained yesterday that no team in the pool would be left scurrying to make up points in order to catch up with the teams that gained maximum or near maximum points by virtue of having played more games.