Rowntree sure Reds will learn from adversity

Graham Rowntree believes his side will "learn from adversity" as they get ready to take on the DHL Stormers in Cape Town.

BACK IN SOUTH AFRICA: Head coach Graham Rowntree arrives. Pic: ©INPHO/Steve Haag Sports/Carl Fourie

The air is fresher in Cape Town, the temperatures cooler than the last time Munster played in South Africa a fortnight ago and that is not the only difference Graham Rowntree has welcomed from a nightmare Champions Cup exit in Durban.

The Munster head coach is back on South African soil on a very different mission to the one which went awry at Kings Park and yesterday banished any perceptions that there will be a hangover from the 50-35 Round of 16 knockout defeat to the Sharks or indeed the last two and a half matches of mayhem that have threatened to undo all the progress made under his watch in the previous four months.