Latest Video & Pics: PRO12 Final

See the action shots and video highlights from yesterday’s Guinness PRO12 Final where, at Munster’s expense, Glasgow Warriors claimed their first league title. We also get the post-match reaction of captain Denis Hurley as the dust settles on the 13-31 defeat.

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“It’s certainly not the end of the world,” was the immediate reaction of Hurley who captained the side for the seventh time this season in the absence of squad captain Peter O’Mahony due to a hip injury.

“To get to the final has been great for the squad. Obviously, we would have expected a lot more of ourselves today, but in fairness Glasgow got on the scoreboard quite early and they’re quite a dangerous team.

“Parts of their offloading game really killed us at times, they opened up a lot of space for themselves and their defence was very good on top of that, it was hard to break them down.

“So, we were chasing the game too early and that’s probably where we lost it.”

Earlier in the week, Hurley’s fellow centre Andrew Smith looked ahead to what would be his final game for the province and spoke about the good playing rapport he had developed with the Cork-man in the Munster midfield – read it here – thoughts which Hurley very much reciprocated after the full-time whistle yesterday.

“Andrew’s come in and done a massive job, I’ve gotten on with him quite well on and off the pitch.

“Lads like that, to come in and buy in to what we’re all about and slot in so seamlessly. He’s a quiet enough guy who goes about his business and you wish lads like that well in the future.

“For lads like that it’s disappointing that we’ve made a final and haven’t gotten over the last hurdle with them.”

In concluding, Hurley’s comments were similar in sentiment to those of Head Coach Anthony Foley,

“We’ve done a lot of growing, we’d new management in and it’s been a season of lessons learned. We’ll take a lot of lessons from here as well, because there’s a great squad building. A lot of new younger lads are getting game time and performing very well and it’s making good yards for next season.”

Read the post-match reaction of Anthony Foley here.