The southern province’s boss is excited about the young players breaking through.
ON AN EVENING when there were fewer eye-catching Munster moments than head coach Graham Rowntree would have liked, the impact of 20-year-old back row Seán Edogbo in Cork last Friday was a highlight.
Edogbo impressed for the Ireland U20s this year, featuring in the Six Nations and U20 World Championship. Rowntree has been delighted with how Edogbo has kicked on with Munster’s senior side during pre-season. Advertisement The Munster boss believes Munster’s pipeline is now a “point of difference” for the province, citing new Year 1 academy centre Gene O’Leary Kareem as another example of the good work being led by Munster’s head of rugby operations, Ian Costello.
The Munster boss also confirmed that Dave Kilcoyne is recovering well from an ankle injury and should be back “imminently.” “Tadhg did a good job, very good. This will be the first time a Munster coach has picked a captain for 10 years, there’s no playbook here. I wasn’t going to be rushed. I certainly wanted to see a few other guys to see how they performed and some of them were injured for big pockets of last season.
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