Bonus-point win a just reward after gruelling day at the office

It's as well all involved here yesterday were being well paid, for otherwise you could have excused them had they headed back into the changing room half-way through the warm-up. And stayed there. At a miserable Thomond Park, a crowd of 12,348 watched the rain come in virtually horizontal for a fair while before referee Matthew Carley got the game going. Thereafter it was intermittent, and horrible.