After Graham Rowntree’s sudden exit it falls to Munster’s interim head coach to steer the province through a potentially turbulent period
Munster players in a huddle during squad training at Thomond Park in advance of the game against New Zealand XV. Photograph: Laszlo Geczo/InphoBack in December 2021 he helped cobble together a callow side, amid a Covid outbreak which laid low the senior coaching staff and most of the playing squad, to orchestrate a famous Champions Cup win over Wasps.
“I shouldn’t say anything about Wasps because I love Wasps, obviously being there for three years,” said Costello of his time there as defence coach. “Because you can be lost in everything else rather than being present, so I know that I’m really going to try and enjoy the occasion because it is going to be pretty special.”
“It’s really important that we know who we are and what we’re about. We have an identity, we have a culture and whoever comes in adds to that, not changes that. He was not prepared to comment any further on Rowntree’s departure other than to say the decision was mutually agreed between Munster, Rowntree and the IRFU and following the touring squad’s return from South Africa on Monday, the players received the news remotely on Tuesday.
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