Van Graan: 'Utterly disappointing, not good enough'

Reluctant to reflect on his own time in charge as his Munster tenure came to an end, Johann van Graan admitted that his side were way off the pace as the curtain came down.

Graham Rowntree will take charge as Van Graan and two of his assistants move on to pastures new but those who remain will have the summer to stew over the remnants of a dreadfully sloppy performance as their URC chances grind to a half in the form of a 36-17 pasting.

"Utterly disappointing," said the South African, who takes charge of Bath next season.

"For us as a group, that wasn't good enough.

"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."

Munster lost their last three games of the season, first to Toulouse in the Champions Cup after a shoot-out and then in worryingly poor performances against Leinster and Ulster.

The defeat to Toulouse, conceded Van Graan, had hue repercussions.

"That was a massive moment in our season, looking back from a season point of view we were very happy with what we achieved that day in Dublin," he said.

"Obviously, we didn't win the game, but the last two performances - from a club point of view – haven’t been good enough.

"That’s the disappointing thing, to finish off the season like this. That’s sport, we as a group have to own it.

"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.

"From a group