Three league finals in 10 years, seven European Cup semi finals in 12 years, but no silverware since 2011. The problem with Munster isn’t that they’re bad, it’s that they’re close to being good.  They’re the origin story for modern Irish rugby. They were the first team here to make winning a cultural norm, the first Irish team to have a definable culture of any kind. The win over the All Blacks in 1978 now feels like a Disney movie but it was real and the performance encapsulated the scrappy, wild, gung-ho status the province took on for its reboot…

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