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MUNSTER’S NON-INTERNATIONAL players will enjoy five days free of rugby training from today until Friday, but a flight to Lanzarote on Saturday signals the resumption of their drive for a Pro12 title.
The province’s Strategic Plan targets at least one league success before the end of the 2016/17 season, but failure to advance into the knock-out stages of the Champions Cup – another stated goal – means the Pro12 takes on a more pressing importance.
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The bitter disappointment of the performance away to Saracens will linger on, although a Pro12 trophy at Ravenhill in May would somewhat temper the suggestions that this Munster group are in the midst of a medium-term downward curve.
Leinster and Connacht have European quarter-finals to plan for in April, but for Anthony Foley’s squad, the Pro12 means everything.
Internationals such as Tommy O’Donnell, Simon Zebo, Keith Earls and Paul O’Connell joined up with Joe Schmidt’s Ireland group last night at Carton House, as the remainder of the Munster players signed off for a brief holiday.
On Saturday, they will fly out to Club La Santa on the easternmost of the Canary Islands for a six-day training camp in temperatures of close to 20°C. Thereafter, a meeting with Cardiff at Musgrave Park on 14 February looms.
Foley and his players head for Lanzarote this weekend. Source: Dan Sheridan/INPHO
“We give the boys off until Saturday and then we get on a flight down to Lanzarote,” says head coach Anthony Foley. “We make sure we’re properly prepared, have a good camp down there.
“We come back from there and get down to a week’s work for Cardiff, then we have the Scarlets and Glasgow during the Six Nations. Hopefully our mini camp will prepare us well and hopefully we can get the results on the back end of that.”
Foley’s belief is that Munster have “come out stronger” at the other end of their heavy defeat to Saracens two weekends ago, “because we’ve all stuck together.” The former Ireland international is pleased with how his side recovered to run nine tries past Sale yesterday in Limerick.