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A STRONG surge in the final quarter propelled Munster Rugby past Gloucester in their Investec Champions Cup clash at a blustery Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday evening.
Munster scored 24 hours in the final half an hour, including three tries in the final 13 minutes, to finally break Gloucester's stubborn resistence and claim a maximum final point haul in front of 36,208 paying customers on Leeside.
Afterwards Munster Rugby head coach felt his side had plenty of room for improvement following their win over the Premiership outfit in the first Champions Cup game to be played in Cork for 23 years.
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"We’re happy to get ourselves on the scoreboard in terms of the European Cup stuff, but I think we'll probably wake up in the morning or even now, and know that we could have been a lot better," McMillan said.
"I think my overriding sense would be that sometimes your will to do something so well becomes the reason it doesn't (happen).
"There's a lot of care in the team and there's a lot of willingness to want to step up and do something well for the team, but I just feel like we forced a lot today instead of just letting the game come to us.
"The only way you can make yourself feel better is to come out and put in a performance that you can be proud of. And there were lots of things that actually went well today.
"When we did get it right, when our skill execution was here, when our patience was here, we looked good. We’ve just got to build more of those moments."
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