Tadhg Beirne tells a story about Johann van Graan replacing him around the hour mark back in his second season with Munster. I feel like I’m an 80-minute player’.”From that day on, Beirne became one of Van Graan’s 80-minute men. Last season, Beirne completed 80 minutes in all bar one of his 16 starts for Munster, when coming off for the last three minutes away to Ulster. In all, Beirne played 2,544 minutes last season. “I think there’s so much more in us and we’re a far cry away from our potential at the moment.
