Limerick lad Jerry Flannery says Irish must forge tour spirit but Tomas O'Leary is an early casualty. Hugh Godwin writes in the Independent on Sunday.
"Munster teamwork was a major plank of McGeechan's planning when he revealed on Tuesday that eight of his 37 tourists would be from the European champions, and it was teamwork which smashed poor O'Leary out of the trip. On Wednesday in training at the University of Limerick, the Munster players had chaired the 21-year-old back Keith Earls on to the field and then jokingly ignored another of the more surprising choices to tour, Alan Quinlan. "When Quinny came out no one said anything," said Jerry Flannery, the hooker also among Munster's amazing eight. "Then eventually we all jumped on him and pulled his shorts off."
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