This looks the job all right.
Munster have never missed out on a Heineken or Champions Cup campaign since rugby turned professional in the mid 1990s.
Each season, Munster enter with hopes of bringing home silverware from Europe’s elite club competition. They have won two Heineken Cups but have yet to claim a Champions Cup since the competition was rebranded in 2013. Three semi-finals in recent years but no final appearance since they last won in 2008.
It wasn’t always the way. In The New Breed, Munster legend David Wallace recalled a goal-setting meeting with the squad in 1997. He commented:
“‘Rags’ [John Kelly] stood up and declared, ‘We want to win the European Cup’. People just burst out laughing – that was the general atmosphere.”
Dave Mahedy, who was running the session, wrote it up on the board but it would be another season or two before the squad truly believed they could pull off such a feat.
Professional rugby has advanced to the stage, now, where teams are now releasing home, away and alternate kit every season. To add to that, there is a wealth of casual and training gear from your favourite side too.
Earlier this week, Munster captain Peter O’Mahony was sporting some of Munster’s new ‘European’ range at the Dublin launch of the Champions and Challenge Cup campaigns. Munster and adidas is usually a potent combination and so it proved again.
.@peterom6 modelling our new #ChampionsCup range 👌🏻 now exclusively available @lifestylesports pic.twitter.com/saiV6NabLJ
— Munster Rugby (@Munsterrugby) October 2, 2017
He’s what it is like when it is now on the shoulders of a man who has captained Munster, Ireland and the Lions. We have not seen the hoodie itself on the Life Style site yet but the rest of the new European gear is there.
A closer look at the gear has revealed a new favourite here at SportsJOE – the navy polo top.
The gear is available to peruse here.
We’re not gigantic fans of the home and away Guinness PRO14 Munster gear but it is hard to fault them on their European offerings – matchday and casual.
