The Province Formerly Known As Munster 2018-19

[Oldschool]

Don't think Munster were the better team but they deserved their win.
Never gave in.
POM's decision making was poor.
Loughman for Kilcoyne was the coaching decision of the game. Joe Schmidt take note, you may not fancy Jack anymore but Killer isn't the answer.
Congrats to Munster, well done, very well done.
So two Irish teams into the HEC S/Fs.
Saracens v Munster probably.

[wixfjord]

Absolutely blessed to win that!

As I've said before, I don't think a pressure game with lots of kicking and little in the way of back play is enough to beat the best sides.

Embra almost did enough today and Sarries will test it even more.

Beautiful finish from Earls btw.

[tomthefan]

Tyler Bleyendal is a class player, shame his career has been so badly disrupted with injury.

[Jackie Brown]

Poor Beirne, is he gonna make it ok?

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[tomthefan]

He's a bit sore I'd say Jackie, like yourself.

[Oldschoolsocks]

Harsh enough there Tom

[ronk]

Good contest. Edinburgh not that savvy at this level. When Beirne got carded they had a platform attacking 2-3m out. Open side around the corner there was a tight formation with John Ryan and other tight forwards ready to deal with pick and drive. Against the grain was setup for pass and Scannell was isolated close to the ruck. Edinburgh didn’t even need to pass wide, just changing direction would have been highly favourable.

They passed on it for a few phases and lost a turnover. And eventually a try down the other end. They did later get another chance and they picked out Murray and Carbery defending a one-out zone with no help.

[sunshiner1]

Just saw the highlights. How Munster weren't called back for Murray's pro-wrestling move on the Edinbrugh 9 is beyond me. Can understand why the Edinbrugh captain was so incensed.

How did Murray play generally? Has his performance improved from Ireland?

[dropkick]

Just saw the highlights. How Munster weren't called back for Murray's pro-wrestling move on the Edinbrugh 9 is beyond me. Can understand why the Edinbrugh captain was so incensed.

How did Murray play generally? Has his performance improved from Ireland?

His passing is a bit more consistent but kicking is still off.


Don't know what he was thinking with the tackle on Pygros but Pygros wouldn't have been able to tackle Earls as he was not 10m back when the quick tap was taken.

[fourthirtythree]

Murray also took the ball out of the scrum and put it back before Pyrgos tackled him.

Which is funny if you get away with it. Maybe it will be a "hand of Murray" moment for them and talked about for decades after...

[leinsterforever]

Half of me thinks Munster might just be able to pull off a result against Saracens. They've got a sort of surging unpredictability about them and an ability to sort of come in waves. They're definitely more unpredictable under van Graan than they were under Erasmus. Ferreira's defence is top-notch too.

But then again, Saracens are an exponentially smarter attacking team than Edinburgh, so it could be a blow-out. Interesting one to watch anyway.

[cormac]

Munster A squad to play two games in the USA, including one against us next Wednesday (10th April)


Liam O’Connor, Conor Oliver, Dave O’Callaghan, Duncan Williams, James Hart and Alex Wootton.
Keynan Knox, Eoghan Clarke, Seán O’Connor, Gavin Coombes, Jack Daly, Jack O’Sullivan, Jack Stafford, Ben Healy, Alex McHenry, Seán French, Alan Tynan and James McCarthy.
David Jennings (Dolphin RFC), Paddy Kelly (Young Munster), Luke Kingston (Highfield), Luke Masters (Shannon), Shane O’Driscoll (Midleton RFC), Ross O’Neill (Cork Constitution FC), Conor Phillips (Young Munster), Cian Reale (Old Crescent RFC) and Billy Scannell (Young Munster).

[Ruckedtobits]

Young Munster and Shannon must love those selections as they fight for AIL Div1A status!

[dropkick]

Young Munster and Shannon must love those selections as they fight for AIL Div1A status!

To be fair, they benefit greatly from Munster moving everything to Limerick. I don't think there's too many players from limerick on the list.

[mildlyinterested]

Young Munster and Shannon must love those selections as they fight for AIL Div1A status!

To be fair, they benefit greatly from Munster moving everything to Limerick. I don't think there's too many players from limerick on the list.

Paddy Kelly and Conor Phillips are from Limerick.

Knox from South Africa.
Coombes, Masters & Scannell from Cork.
Stafford from Wexford.
Tynan from Tipperary.

[Ruckedtobits]

Fairly sure that Y.M contingent includes:
Knox, Coombes, Tynan, Scannel B, Phillips and Kelly.

Shannon have AIL & McMullan Cup (AI U.20) games this weekend and will miss:
Clarke and Stafford.

The face-off in Yellowbrick Rd tomorrow evening will be interesting.

[blockhead]

Munster: Mike Haley; Andrew Conway, Chris Farrell, Rory Scannell, Keith Earls; Tyler Bleyendaal, Conor Murray; Dave Kilcoyne, Kevin O’Byrne, John Ryan; Jean Kleyn, Billy Holland; Peter O’Mahony (C), Chris Cloete, Arno Botha.
Replacements: Niall Scannell, Jeremy Loughman, Stephen Archer, Tadhg Beirne, CJ Stander, Alby Mathewson, JJ Hanrahan, Sammy Arnold.

Strong 1st 15 and bench.
Needs must, need to get home semi and need avoid extra game (just in case they beat sarries).
Joey out so only 12 blow-ins this week.

[johng]

There were only 12 last week too after sweetnam came in for haley

[Ruckedtobits]

They did it again tonight. Won with 6 tries having played like drains for middle 40 mins. In fact, their power and support lines in final 20 mins would give Sarries a run.

[johng]

Having beirne, stander and Mathews son on the bench helped