Snyman’s impending exit elicits sense of what might have been

Munster’s John Hodnett and RG Snyman.

News that RG Snyman is to depart Munster at the season’s end ‘for a new playing opportunity’ elsewhere can’t but elicit a sense of sadness and regret for what might have been. For both parties.

The mind goes back to confirmation of his arrival, along with that of fellow World Cup winner Damian De Allende and Matt Gallagher, in late January of 2020 and the boost it gave to a club still absorbing a recent elimination from the Champions Cup pool stages.