URC: Munster ‘not good enough’ as Johann van Graan’s tenure ends with a whimper

The South African is joining Bath ahead of next season and the Irish province were unable to give him a good send off following their abject 36-17 defeat to Ulster.

They were outplayed in pretty much every department, summing up a poor campaign in which the Limerick outfit have regressed.

“Utterly disappointing. For us as a group, that wasn’t good enough,” Van Graan said.

“Two main things stood out, discipline-wise we just gave Ulster access. We had more than enough opportunities and just couldn’t finish, even though we scored three tries.

“We’ve got to own that as a group, we came here to win and we were a long way short tonight.

“From a team perspective, the last two games wasn’t good enough. We’ll have to do our end of season review and own that as a group and then move forward.”

Following the disappointing loss, Van Graan refused to discuss his time in charge, insisting that those thoughts will be reserved until a later date.

“From the very first day I said this is not about me. We’ll do some reflection, I’ll speak later about the last five years,” he said.

“From a group point of view, we’ve got to face up to this as a group in terms of the supporters who came here, at home – they’ve been phenomenal all season.

“For Munster Rugby that performance today just wasn’t good enough.

“I don’t want to go into that (his legacy) tonight. I don’t think that I should do a reflection on that. We came here to win, we were still alive in the United Rugby Championship and all credit to Ulster, they outplayed us tonight.

“The frustrating thing tonight is we had opportunities, a big moment on the charge down from Gavin Coombes just after half-time and then twice in the game we didn’t get a try and they struck back straight away.

“So