Munster boss Costello: 'You’d back Jack Crowley to bounce back from anything'

Not a month goes by when it seems the 24-year-old is not required to tap into his renowned mental strength and respond with a performance to restore faith among the wider rugby public that this is a playmaker of rare talent.

BOUNCE BACK: Munster’s Jack Crowley dejected after the game. Picture: ©INPHO/Dan Sheridan

Such is the focus placed on the Munster number 10 jersey that on a night of mounting injuries, multiple errors and frequent penalties across the team, it was Jack Crowley’s poor performance grabbing the attention in Friday’s 16-14 Champions Cup defeat.

The fly-half was not the only guilty party as Munster failed to take advantage of three Castres yellow cards, conceded a sloppy try from the front of an opposition lineout for the second week in a row and was able to offer only the meekest resistance to heavyweight French Top 14 scrum at Stade Pierre Fabre.