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Mixed feelings for Munster coach Graham Rowntree after win over Glasgow

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Graham Rowntree says his side played some "beautiful" rugby in their 40-29 win against the Glasgow Warriors, but the Munster coach admitted he was left frustrated with his side's struggles at the maul.The BTK United Rugby champions scored three tries in the opening 15 minutes at a sold-out Musgrave Park, and while they went on to cross the line six times in total, they were exposed by a lethal Glasgow lineout maul, from which the visitors scored all five of their tries."We looked sharp [in attack], didn't we?," the Munster boss said."We were really sharp in attack.

Discipline, we'll look at how we're giving them mauls at our own tryline and we have to be better there. I said to the lads, we have some work to do as a forward pack, otherwise we'll be defending mauls all season.

We've got some work to do there, but it stems back to our discipline around the middle of the field."And while Rowntree was pleased with how his attack improved further after a positive showing against Leinster last week, he says the maul deficiencies "tainted" the 11-point victory."Beautiful, beautiful, we got our game going.

We had momentum last week, even though the scoreline didn't reflect it, we had momentum in our attack and took it through to this week.

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