Andi Kyriacou: It will take time for players and coaches to gel at Munster

It will be neither the first nor the last time you will hear this from a Munster coach in these opening weeks but there is an ongoing getting-to-know-you feeling for management and players alike

PREACHING PATIENCE: Munster forwards coach Andi Kyriacou. Pic: INPHO/Ben Brady

It will be neither the first nor the last time you will hear this from a Munster coach in these opening weeks of the new season but there is an ongoing getting-to-know-you feeling in camp for management and players alike.

Forwards coach Andi Kyriacou was the latest of Graham Rowntree’s recently appointed assistants to face the media on Tuesday as Munster looked ahead to this Sunday’s return trip to south Wales and an eminently winnable BKT United Rugby Championship round-two fixture against the Dragons in Newport.