Munster ready to play waiting game to get right person for head coach job

“If it takes a month, if it takes three months, if it takes seven, the key thing is we get the right person, the right person for the squad for what we have built already."

PATIENCE REQUIRED: Munster interim head coach Ian Costello, left, and defence coach Denis Leamy before the match against an All Blacks XV at Thomond Park. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

The search for Graham Rowntree’s successor as Munster head coach begins in earnest on Monday as Ian Costello momentarily sheds his interim boss status and returns to the day job as Head of Rugby Operations.

As the playing squad takes a 10-day break before Costello leads preparations for the resumption of the URC campaign at home to the Lions on November 30, the recruitment process will have some shape put on it with the interim head coach part of the selection group with Munster’s Professional Game Committee on which he sits.