Opportunity knocks again at Munster for confident Dan Goggin

Earning a place in the team on the biggest days of all is the ambition of every member of the Munster squad. But when you ply your trade in the centre, that becomes a very difficult ambition to achieve. So when Dan Goggin got the nod from Johann van Graan for the away game against Leinster at the Aviva Stadium in October, following up with starts against Exeter Chiefs and Gloucester in the European Cup, the Young Munster man’s confidence rocketed sky high.

To impress his head coach to such a degree told him that he must be doing a lot of things right and that his career was headed very much in the right direction. And then, in the 80th minute of the Gloucester game, a dodgy knee that had let him down on previous occasions struck again.