Can Munster’s pride of Lions tackle rugby’s growing crisis?
The fact that McGeechan has had to depend on just one outstanding team must be deeply worrying for the future of the Lions, and for the professional game
It is probably the greatest compliment Munster rugby has ever been paid. As Lions coach Ian McGeechan surveyed the remains of a poor Six Nations competition, while attempting to put together the 2009 British and Irish Lions touring party to face South Africa, he saw the Irish province as his template and his hope.
In this, of course, he was hardly original - already, Declan Kidney had used the Munster chassis and full-blooded ...
