There’ll be no mixed emotions for CJ Stander when Munster face the Stormers via IrishTimesSport
“I don’t miss the game but I do miss these weekends because the craic afterwards, the few beers, and all the hard work in the years of disappointment, you’re going to sit there and hopefully win the final and celebrate with your mates. That’s the part I miss.
“There is a lot of youth coming through who understand the game-plan, but they are younger players with no fear. That’s probably the thing that kept Munster back for the last few years. Almost that fear, not of success, but getting to the play-offs because they have been there multiple times anyway. “The squad has changed but the core is still there and we’ve been talking about evolving for the last eight, nine years now, and it’s good to see that talent come to the top now with Graham taking over from Johann.”
Stander was speaking along with another former Munster player, Jean de Villiers, from South Africa on a media call organised by the URC, and the ex-Springboks World Cup winner has been impressed by the unity which helped Munster recover from their early season struggles, and again in their recent run to the final.
“There is a difference between thinking you can win a game and knowing you can win a game because you have done it before on different territory,” said de Villiers
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