Munster players not distracted despite Randle appointment controversy, says McMillan

Tadhg Beirne and Head Coach Clayton McMillan. Pic: INPHO/Morgan Treacy

Clayton McMillan insisted Munster’s bid for a top-eight URC finish would not be derailed by the controversy engulfing the province’s decision to hire Roger Randle as its next attack coach.

The Chiefs assistant will replace the Bath-bound Mike Prendergast this summer on a two-year contract, subject to securing a work permit, but his appointment has met with discontent in some quarters of the Munster support, both inside and outside the organisation, following the re-airing of an historic rape allegation against the former New Zealand wing from 1997, for which the complaint was dropped.