Onus is on us as players to react positively - O'Sullivan and Munster playing party taking criticism on the chin 

O’Sullivan, 24, has started both games at No.8 and accepts the Munster players must take all the responsibility for the defeats on their shoulders but he is sure that brighter times live ahead once the team starts to click.

UPBEAT: Jack O'Sullivan during a Munster Rugby squad training session at the University of Limerick in Limerick. Pic: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

Munster may have their backs against the wall as they head into tomorrow’s home opener against Zebre Parma but Jack O’Sullivan is confident the coaching regime’s more intense approach to training will soon bring exciting times.

Two defeats in the opening two rounds of the new BKT United Rugby Championship have brought the Reds and new head coach Graham Rowntree under intense scrutiny following those away losses in Wales to Cardiff in week one and last Sunday’s shock reverse to Dragons.