No excuses: Clayton McMillan demands fast start from Munster

Sluggish starts have been an unwanted feature of Munster's recent campaigns. That is a trend which new head coach Clayton McMillan wants to stop. 

Munster open their URC campaign against Scarlets on Saturday. Pic: ©INPHO/James Crombie

Hitting the ground running has not been a feature of Munster’s starts to recent seasons.

Leaving things late to make a run into the play-off positions at the end of a long campaign has become something of a habit and though one of those ended in a long-awaited trophy when Graham Rowntree’s team delivered the URC title in 2023, winning trophies is undoubtedly harder when a squad is scrambling to make the play-offs in the final rounds of the regular season during April and May.