Patience a virtue for Munster as Denis Leamy reflects on 'work in progress'

Graham Rowntree's side are showing promising signs but there's a long road ahead, cautions the province's defence coach.

HUDDLE UP: Jack O'Donoghue during a Munster rugby squad training session at Thomond Park in Limerick. Picture: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

It was Denis Leamy who sounded the first words of caution regarding expectations for the new broom sweeping through Munster last summer.

The newly-installed defence coach had been talking on the eve of the new season, Graham Rowntree’s first since succeeding head coach Johann van Graan after another trophy-less season that had done little to dampen hopes that silverware was just around the corner.