‘We’ve worked hard’: Clayton McMillan hopes Munster reap rewards of off-season preparation

At times, Clayton McMillan cut a dispirited figure amid the fallout from Munster’s troubled campaign and anticlimactic exits in Europe and the United Rugby Championship (URC) last season, but there’s little doubting his enthusiasm has been renewed over summer. Buoyed by shaping a changed coaching ticket, it’s also clear McMillan wants to put a different stamp on Munster this season.

In advance of hosting Leicester Tigers in their final preseason game in Virgin Media Park, Cork, on Friday (7.15pm), McMillan said: “There are definitely some things that we will do differently this year and that’s what we’ve been putting a lot of our energy into.