Leaders must stand tall as Munster build again

In times of turmoil, and there has been plenty of that at Munster in recent seasons, the onus falls on the playing squad’s leadership group to pull the province through troubled waters, and it will be no different this time as the unexpected search for new coaches begins.

Two days after Jerry Flannery, the forwards coach, and Felix Jones, responsible for the backline and attack, made known their decisions to leave Munster at the end of this season, the squad and its coaching staff will this morning reassemble at their High Performance Centre in Limerick. They will begin preparations for a last throw of the dice in this campaign, a Guinness PRO14 semi-final in Dublin against defending champions Leinster on Saturday week.