Duncan Williams: Let’s give Rassie Erasmus perfect send-off

Duncan Williams is just one of many Munster players adamant the change of head coach over the next few weeks will have little or no effect on the teams’ performances.

The 31-year-old Cork Constitution man will be back in the number nine jersey for tomorrow night’s Guinness PRO14 tie against the Dragons at Musgrave Park with a favourable result essential to redress the damaging effect of recent defeats by Leinster, Glasgow, and Connacht that have left Munster trailing the Scottish side by 12 points in their conference after seven series of games.

With that in mind, Munster could do without the distractions of managing the handover from Rassie Erasmus to Johann van Graan as well, but Williams plays down that factor.