Munster table offer for All Blacks tighthead Tyrel Lomax

For McMillan, also in the market for an attack and forward coaches for next season, the tighthead situation is nearing crisis point.

New Zealand's Tyrel Lomax. Pic: Shane WENZLICK / AFP via Getty Images

Munster Rugby have tabled an offer to bring All Blacks tighthead prop Tyrel Lomax to the province following next year’s World Cup but they are facing an immediate crisis in that position requiring much shorter-term fixes.

The Irish Examiner understands Munster will face stiff competition for Lomax, who won his 48th cap for the All Blacks as a starter in the Bledisloe Cup victory over Australia at Eden Park last September, with New Zealand Rugby keen to extend the 30-year-old’s stay in Super Rugby at the Hurricanes, where he has played since 2020.