Rowntree: 'Season fizzling out? I'm not detecting anyone ready to fizzle out'

'We've got to be better. We have shown what we can do this year. For all our wrongs and things we’ve had to do better in our last three games we’ve still scored a lot of tries'

THUMBS UP: Munster's Jack O'Donoghue at training on Wednesday in Hamilton RFC, Cape Town

Graham Rowntree has reacted strongly to the suggestion Munster’s season is in danger of “fizzling out” following back-to-back defeats in the BKT URC and Heineken Champions Cup.

Speaking from Cape Town on Wednesday as Munster began preparations for their penultimate URC regular season game this Saturday at the Stormers, the head was asked to draw comparisons with last season’s lacklustre end to predecessor’s Johann van Graan’s final campaign with the Reds which ended with a desperately poor league play-off quarter-final defeat at Ulster.