'We don’t focus on that white noise': Munster blocked out Gerbrandt Grobler noise

Jean Kleyn paid tribute to Munster’s togetherness after the province emerged from a week of controversy off the field to book a place in the Champions Cup quarter-finals.

As the debate raged on in the media about whether Munster were right to sign Kleyn’s fellow South African lock Gerbrandt Grobler last summer in the knowledge that he had tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug, subsequently serving a two-year suspension, the men in red kept their heads down and prepared for their sixth and final game in Pool 4.

That they triumphed 48-3 against Castres, a side sitting fourth in the French Top14, was a testament to Munster’s resilience and Kleyn said: “Look, at the end of the day we are a team.