slip out

A fourth defeat in five means Munster remain seventh but could slip out of the play-off places this weekend.

Walz said that the president has captured a group of voters whose "economic future is so precarious it could slip out from under them" and charged the party with crafting a message that grabs those people.

But in the heat of the moment, playing sport, sometimes things slip out a little bit.

That high-risk dynamic - where things could slip out of control in an atmosphere of distrust and political pressure - is why many analysts and economists are far from comforted by how things have played out with Mexico and Canada this week.

City will somehow have to fashion a vast improvement in the short period between this win and the play-offs if they are not to slip out at that stage.