CJ Stander: No special protection for Conor Murray this week

Stander believes Murray’s teammates “let him down” during the Champions Cup game in Glasgow.

CJ Stander believes Conor Murray’s teammates “let him down” during the Champions Cup game in Glasgow but doesn’t feel that Ireland’s back row will have to provide any extra protection when the scrum-half returns to Scotland this weekend, writes Brendan O’Brien.

Murray was vocal in his dissatisfaction with what he believed was Glasgow’s targeting of his standing leg as he box-kicked in that crucial Scotstoun encounter last month and went as far as to say the week after that he was lucky to avoid a serious injury.