Rowntree on Thomond Park: 'It was nothing like I’d tasted before for a club game. It was like a Test match'

It's not like Graham Rowntree to need a bedding-in period and he was characteristically relaxed on his first outing in front of the Munster media.

Sitting around the same boardroom table as he did back in May, before making a “quick decision” to sign up, he recalled the first question he was asked when sitting down with Johann van Graan and some board members.