Sunday's 13-13 draw away to Benetton was a nice reminder of how far Munster have come in the last 12 months.
The URC champions' title win last season was backboned by an all-court style of rugby; fast and relentless, tip-on passes and wingers drifting infield foraging for work.
It was a style that took a while to bed-in, with their two wins from seven games to start last season making their eventual championship success all the more improbable and impressive.
Sunday's draw in Italy, and particularly the first hour of that draw, looked like the Munster of 12 months ago where passes were bring overthrown and underthrown, and every phase looked like a chore against what was an aggressive and impressive Benetton defence.
The difference between last season and this season, however, is that there's no major cause for alarm. The body of work that has come before Sunday's performance shows they have a game plan they're capable of executing more often than not.
Without getting too technical, you can chalk it down as One Of Those Days. Take the medicine and move on.
Four points, or even five, would have been the return on investment they expected, but Joey Carbery's late penalty, followed by a Tom Ahern try, meant they could at least go home with two. And when the points are totted up at the end of the season, those two points could be valuable.
"When things aren't going perfectly well, you find away," assistant coach Mike Prendergast said.
"With seven and a half minutes to go were still 10 behind and I know it didn't look it, but conditions weren't as easy, underfoot conditions weren't easy. There were probably a few errors through that. Our bench coming on made big impact, certain individuals added to it.
"We showed great desire in the end to get two points, but not taking away from our first 40 minutes, it wasn't good enough and we know that, we're very clear and conscious of that.
"We gave our feedback and all we want to do now is move forward and look at what the Dragons will bring. We know we need to be a lot better than that in our first 40 and it's something we spoke about. We have to start the game strong this weekend and keep the performance going."
This Saturday's meeting with the Dragons represents some unfinished business for Munster, who fell to a rare defeat to the Welsh side last September, losing 23-17 at Rodney Parade.
And centre Antoine Frisch says they've quickly parked Sunday's result ahead of the visit of the Dragons to Musgrave Park on Saturday.
"We lost against them last season, so we were straight into analysis on Tuesday morning, and also reviewing what we can do better from the Benetton game," said Frisch (below).
"We're fully focused on Dragons, yeah. It's a short turnaround.
"It's a massive improvement that we need. We need to be more accurate. Errors in the first half didn't allow us to do what we wanted to do, and if we can fix that and if we can have a fast start against Dragons then we'll be well set up."
Munster are likely to be without Carbery this weekend, after the out-half suffered a wrist injury in Italy at the weekend, paving the way for either Rory Scannell or academy man Tony Butler to move into out-half this weekend.
If Scannell shifts into the 10 shirt, it opens the possibility for new signing Alex Nankivell to come into the starting team and partner Frisch in the centre, having impressed off the bench in his first two appearances this season.
And Frisch - who is also a potential option at out-half - says the New Zealander has hit the ground running since arriving in Limerick a fortnight ago.
"Like, he's class," he said. "He came in and straight away you can see the quality on both sides of the ball, in 'D' it's his defensive reads and also in attack he scans really well, he's always making good decisions.
"I really enjoyed playing with him on the weekend when he came on so yes, very easy to play with him, very similar to Mala [Malakai Fekitoa] last year. He's quality.
"Maybe we just need some minutes, just to get those connections, but he's fit in so seamlessly since he's arrived. I reckon it will be a very, very fast transition."
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