Johann van Graan believes Munster will be ‘better equipped’ this season

It usually takes a long, hot summer to digest the shortcomings of the previous campaign but this time it was just four weeks

Johann van Graan: 'We believe that we’ve got a very good crop of youngsters coming through'. Picture: INPHO/Laszlo Geczo

The dust may still not have settled on Munster’s meek exit from the 2019-20 Guinness PRO14 play-offs but Johann van Graan firmly believes his squad can make a better fist of things in 2020-21.

It usually takes a long, hot summer to digest the shortcomings of the previous campaign but just four weeks after Munster’s unsuitability for silverware was exposed by Leinster in a 13-3 Pro14 semi-final defeat at Aviva Stadium, van Graan will take his squad to west Wales to open their 2020-21 account against Scarlets.