**Early-season matchups are often a good indicator of what might happen come the business end of the campaign and that September defeat could well come back to haunt you further down the line.** With the Guinness PRO14 currently on ice due to the COVID-19 pandemic, now seems like a perfect time to run our eyes over one of the tightest early-season games in history – a fixture which Glasgow Warrior fans will most definitely have tried to forget about. In October 2018, Munster hosted Glasgow at Thomond Park and, with Rory Scannell's nerveless final kick of the game, managed to complete a stirring late comeback to pip their opponents by a single point and gain revenge for a Scotstoun defeat a month prior. The Round 7 match-up between the two sides witnessed the two giants go toe to toe in a 25-24 contest and in addition to announcing both sides as genuine contenders for the title, it would have mesmerised every fan from Cape Town to Newport.
