Munster Catechism of Sporting Cliche
What did Munster prove yesterday?
A point
In what manner of maximum informativeness?
The most telling
In front of a home crowd in what combustible state?
Fired-up
What source of usable power and obligation had Munster set aside?
Reserves of energy and commitment
And in what unspecified manner were these reserves called forth to a higher position?
They were somehow summoned up
How did this facilitate their plans regarding the location?
It enabled them to leave the most daunting of venues
With what final consequence notable to many?
A famous result
And to what source of distinction?
Their credit
What excessive expressions is the coach not given to?
Superlatives
Had Munster lost, in what position in the queue to complain would the coach have been?
The last
How more firmly fastened could the match hardly have been?
Tighter
What favourable set of circumstances did the opposing team certainly have?
Their chances
Like what divine human form did the opposition captain lead his team?
A man inspired
The opposing coach erred grieviously despite his protests to what opposite effect?
The contrary
What piece of baseball equipment do Munster’s top players always step up to when they visit the grounds of rugby’s greatest teams?
The plate
Recognized as definitive in its field, what kind of example was yesterday?
Classic
O’Gara made light of a few knocks to turn in what kind of very shiny performance?
A highly polished
To his what?
Credit
With a wonderful penalty from inside his own half, what did he finally carry?
The day
When a Munster man gets the ball in his hands close to the opposing line, who would you prefer to see in that situation, other than David Wallace?
There is nobody
What would it be to quibble about aspects of the Munster performance?
It would be churlish
In the camp last night how easily perceptible was the deep satisfaction?
It was palpable
But what was the coach quick to?
Stress
That they won’t get carried where?
Away
And at which element of the game will they be looking?
Every conceivable
What conditions will the coach need to take into consideration?
Those in which the game was played
In all what?
Fairness
With the rain pouring down, what were the pitch and the ball like?
A skating rink and a bar of soap
What way did Munster not have things?
Their own
Not by what distance of shot?
Long
To keep the Tigers at what marine feature, did Munster really have to dog it out?
Bay
What distance from happy were Munster when they conceded a penalty try?
Far
About which there could be how much complaint?
Little
As the game went on, what did Munster do with the situation?
They got to grips
What did the occasion demonstrate has not been diminished by last year’s success?
The hunger and desire
Above how many things?
All
At what stage of another long campaign is it?
It’s only the beginning
Thank You: O’Gara’s Last Word
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