Munster season review: When have Munster ever stuck to the script?

Even by Munster’s standards 2021-22 has been a remarkable campaign, and not always for the right reasons

Munster after the URC quarter-final defeat to Ulster on Friday night. ©INPHO/Laszlo Geczo

It really shouldn't have ended this way, with the worst performance of the season and a miserable exit at the first hurdle of the URC play-offs but then again, when have Munster ever stuck to the script?

Even by this province’s standards 2021-22 has been a remarkable campaign and not always for the right reasons. From the Covid outbreak that split the squad in three, two of those groups unavailable for duty in either Cape Town or self-isolating in Ireland, to the announcements in short succession that both head coach Johann van Graan and senior Stephen Larkham would be departing at the end of the season, Munster's capacity for turmoil was unstinting. And that was all before Christmas.