Munster have been throwing away leads like confetti at a wedding this season.
Bayonne, Exeter, Northampton are all relatively fresh in the memory as Graham Rowntree's side butchered healthy advantages to lose valuable Champions Cup points.
But they also led 10-0 against Leinster in the URC before suffering a 21-16 defeat in November.
Prior to the Saints loss, an old-style Munster win in Toulon appeared to put them back on track but that bubble burst when Fin Smith and Courtney Lawes and their 12 team-mates got their number and handed them a painful 26-23 home loss.
It's something which they’ve had to stew over every since.
And tonight brings a first shot at steadying the ship against the visiting Crusaders, albeit in a winner-takes-nothing encounter.
As for a pattern that might indicate why Munster kept blowing leads, full-back Shane Daly told RTÉ Sport: "If you look at a lot of those games, they were all very tricky conditions.
"It’s something we probably haven’t prepared for, trained or spoke about because we are used to training, playing our own game, playing to space but when it gets that tricky to play, how we manage those games is something we’ve learned a lot over the last few weeks.
"We seem to come out the wrong side of those results when conditions have turned on us so how you manage the game, how you decide to run, kick, those things, we’ve a lot more clarity now around that.
"Hopefully as the season goes on and we do find ourselves in that position again we can adapt a bit better."
Munster famously overcame a poor start to last season before finishing with three play-off victories in a row away from home to claim the BKT URC crown.
"It’s been an interesting few months for us, mixed results," continued the 27-year-old.
"Overall, our performances have been quite good so it’s difficult to be too up or down about it but there is an overwhelming frustration in the squad.
"We’ve put a lot of good stuff together, a lot of stuff we’ve been working and talking about and it has come together in the games, then we are losing on small details, small things letting us down.
"It’s different to last year where things weren’t clicking for us.
"Things actually are clicking but little things are letting us down. It’s been tough watching them back but look, we are confident in where this group is and where we are going. We are only halfway through
"We’ve a long way to go but we are very confident we’ll get to where we were at the end of last season."
This evening’s match against the New Zealand champions, led by former Munster boss Rob Penney, at Páirc Uí Choimh, can be a re-set for the team, currently 11th in the table.
"I want us to be ambitious," said Rowntree (above).
"I want us to play, to get our game going like we did against Toulon recently. Yeah, get the crowd on their feet, get our lads playing the game they love playing, the game we train every day.
"And with that, being good at the set-pieces as well, being good at our set-piece and stopping their set-piece as well because they’ve got a good maul game, so we can’t give them access.
"Crikey, this is old ground this, saying the same thing again but I’m looking forward to that in front of a big crowd, it sold out very quickly – a great crowd, knowledgeable rugby crowd. Yeah, it’s all teed up for us for a famous evening, isn’t it?"
Munster: Shane Daly; Seán O'Brien, Antoine Frisch, Alex Nankivell, Shay McCarthy; Joey Carbery, Ethan Coughlan; Josh Wycherley, Eoghan Clarke, Stephen Archer; Gavin Coombes, Fineen Wycherley; Ruadhán Quinn, Alex Kendellen (C), Jack O'Sullivan.
Replacements: Scott Buckley, Mark Donnelly, John Ryan, Kamil Nowak, Jack Daly, Daniel Okeke, Neil Cronin, Tony Butler, Rory Scannell, Colm Hogan.
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