Graham Rowntree: 'Gloucester loss could be kick up backside we need'

The Munster management will not fall into panic mode with the boss insisting the below-par performance will not alter the pre-planned shape of the next two weeks on the training ground

Munster head coach Graham Rowntree during the game against Gloucester

Graham Rowntree stabbed his finger into the Munster badge on his chest.

He was reacting to the suggestion that losing 33-19 at home to Gloucester, as his team did in Cork last Friday night, was just part of the pre-season process, another step along the road to a new campaign, two weeks further down the road.