Munster moving on from Benetton wobble ahead of Dragons visit to Cork

Sunday's 13-13 draw away to Benetton was a nice reminder of how far Munster have come in the last 12 months.

The URC champions' title win last season was backboned by an all-court style of rugby; fast and relentless, tip-on passes and wingers drifting infield foraging for work.

It was a style that took a while to bed-in, with their two wins from seven games to start last season making their eventual championship success all the more improbable and impressive.

Sunday's draw in Italy, and particularly the first hour of that draw, looked like the Munster of 12 months ago where passes were bring overthrown and underthrown, and every phase looked like a chore against what was an aggressive and impressive Benetton defence.

The difference between last season and this season, however, is that there's no major cause for alarm. The body of work that has come before Sunday's performance shows they have a gameplan they're capable of executing more often than not.

Without getting too technical, you can chalk it down as One Of Those Days. Take the medicine and move on.

Four points, or even five, would have been the return on investment they expected, but Joey Carbery's late penalty, followed by a Tom Ahern try, meant they could at least go home with two. And when the points are totted up at the end of the season, those two points could be valuable.

"When things aren't going perfectly well, you find away," assistant coach Mike Prendergast said.

"With seven and a half minutes to go were still 10 behind and I know it didn't look it, but conditions weren't as easy, underfoot conditions weren't easy. There were probably a few errors through that. Our bench coming on made big impact, certain individuals added to it.

"We showed great desire in the