Marcus Horan: 'With that mix of experience and youth you could have magic on Sunday'

A few years ago the scenario Munster face this weekend without access to frontline players would have exposed the province's production line. Now it appears to underline the progress it has made, albeit still short of where it could be and where Leinster’s is at.

TALKING TACTICS: Academy manager Ian Costello, left, makes a point to Ethan Coughlan during Munster squad training at University of Limerick. Picture: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

You can’t exactly say Wasps is Munster’s Sheffield Wednesday game.

Covid and South Africa has represented merely a crisis for the club, not a disaster like it knew in the form of Anthony Foley’s still stunningly premature passing or which Manchester United faced in the wake of Munich.