'Nothing changes': Munster plan will stay the same despite RG Snyman’s injury misfortune

If Snyman was indeed a game-changer, do Munster have to change their game now that he is unavailable again? asks Brendan O'Brien

Munster defence coach JP Ferreira. Picture: INPHO/Bryan Keane

It’s not a phrase that anyone in the Munster organisation has committed to record but the accepted wisdom when the province announced the captures of Damian De Allende and RG Snyman was that these guys were game-changers.

It’s a mantra that’s been repeated time and again, in print and on the airwaves, since. Two World Cup-winning Springboks added to a squad that has repeatedly found itself bogged down at the penultimate or ultimate hurdles in league and European Cup.