Pro12: Munster vs Edinburgh, Sat 7 Sep 7:15pm; TG4/BBCALBA

Micky Dolenz

W00t

thomond2006

Very impressed by James Cronin in the loose.

DDC1990

Sheridan for Williams
Holland for DOC
TOD for DOC 2.0

thomond2006

Great BP try.

donfers

offloading has been superb all night

coughlan and williams who were poor for the try make up for it instantly with excellent work in build up to the try, both men having good games, especially happy for williams who has taken an awful lot of flak, fair play to him

The Lost Sheep

thomond2006 wrote: »

Very impressed by James Cronin in the loose.

Very impressed. Scrummaging will improve over time at this level but he's young and up against a tough TH in Nel and done well

DDC1990

Frontrow change.

Cronan, Sherry, Archer off Kilcoyne, Varley and Ryan on.

19543261

Zebo is such a messer.

DDC1990

Bad option Sheridan.

We want Williams back!

athtrasna

DDC1990 wrote: »

Bad option Sheridan.

We want Williams back!

I keep hearing the Twilight zone music :eek:

DDC1990

Great between JJ and Sheridan.

Try JJ

CoDy1

Hanrahan has some try scoring record!

ScrubsfanChris

Sheridan having really good game so far.....

petebricquette

Is it me or is the noise the stats bar makes when it comes onscreen annoying?

DDC1990

Missed tackles again!

ROM, Johnee and LLL!

marian Carolan

34-16 :-) doing well

CoDy1

Woeful attempt to tackle there from LLL

thomond2006

Silky from JJ!

P_1

Here lads defend will ye? Think of the bloody handicap

DDC1990

!!!

Thats a Munster scrum!

How was that not a maul!

Swiwi.

MOTM? The Munster loosies have played pretty well tonight. Maybe one of them.

thomond2006

Swiwi. wrote: »

MOTM? The Munster loosies have played pretty well tonight. Maybe one of them.

Cronin or Johne Murphy

DDC1990

Sheridan?????

Stupid Clock!

The Lost Sheep

Swiwi. wrote: »

MOTM? The Munster loosies have played pretty well tonight. Maybe one of them.

Cronin or Johne Murphy. Maybe Keatley

CoDy1

great tackle, my mancrush for TOD grows stronger.

P_1

Brainless stuff there, never trust the ground clock

Swiwi.

OK, I'm sure one of the first laws in the book is that a game is 80 minutes LOL

durkadurka

Good to see the Munster stadium clocks are as dodgy as the Leinster ones

DDC1990

G'man Varley!

DDC1990

Great stuff.

Handicap covered!

marian Carolan

don't know about the rest of you but I enjoyed that. things to be worked on but over all a very good start.
goodnight all

P_1

DDC1990 wrote: »

Great stuff.

Handicap covered!

That's all I wanted from that one

phog

Enjoyable game, lots to be happy with but a few things that need improvement namely defence and discipline though I think a few penalties were harsh. Cronin was superb in the loose and fully deserved his try. Murphy was my MOTM, no idea who was picked on TV, Williams was close to top notch tonight but needs to be close to that level in all his games.

Very disappointed with our defence for their two tries, we were porous. I know we left a few points behind us but if they converted their penalties it would have been a tight finish.

Chabals Beard

Some good points points, especially in attack. The players aren't only looking to offload in the right situations but they look comfortable doing it. I was amazed with some of the hands shown by the fatties, Cronin looks like another fantastic prospect, improve his scrumaging and he could even put Killer under serious pressure. A mouth watering battle between Keatly and JJ is going to unfold, would still have more faith in Keatly if we were playing Leinster in the morning but that could change. Defense was sloppy but as they get more proper competitive games you would hope it would improve. Murphy and Willaims were suburb also. O Mahoney looks like a ball of energy too. I am a happy man tonight anyway!

phog

We seemed to have been penalised a lot in the scrums, haven't seen them yet in TV but I thought a few were harsh, their front row seemed to be up or driving upwards. I thought the pen against DOC for counter trucking was harsh too.

We seemed to get very sloppy/loose in the 2nd half, I think in the space of a few mins we conceded a try and kicked the ball out in the full twice, not good enough really.

TOD try saving tackle on the sideline after we turned over the ball on their try line was brilliant to watch, he watched the player and timed his dive to perfection.

Dineen went off injured hope it's a niggle rather than something that will rule him out of selection.

POM was interviewed on the sideline before the game, he's carrying some knock too as he had a noticeable limp. :-(

DDC1990

Couldn't complain about the scrums IMO, we were well beaten at a lot of them.

The DOC one was not a penalty in a million years. Because his shoulders were moving when he was counter-rucking (actually he was more being a nuisance TBH :P ) the referee deemed it dangerous play with the shoulder! Madness.

Defence was sloppy in the second half.

phog

Player ratings - from the Limerick Leader http://m.limerickleader.ie/sport/limerick-sport/how-the-munster-players-rated-in-the-win-over-edinburgh-1-5468424

Howard Juneau

phog wrote: »

Player ratings - from the Limerick Leader http://m.limerickleader.ie/sport/limerick-sport/how-the-munster-players-rated-in-the-win-over-edinburgh-1-5468424

Dineen an 8 & Laulala 6 and it's spot on imo

thomond2006

POM was interviewed before the game, he said his return is set for 'Rabo 4' which is the Dragons at Cork in three weeks.

phog

thomond2006 wrote: »

POM was interviewed before the game, he said his return is set for 'Rabo 4' which is the Dragons at Cork in three weeks.

That's more or less what Penney said earlier in the week as well, they'd need to dropping back into the team by then anyway with Leinster and two H/cup games up after that.

Did you notice the interviewer called him Ronan O'Mahony

Roanmore

Match is on Setanta now, the synopsis says Tony McGahan's Munster side, has nobody told them about Rob Penney

Kayless

any highlights for the match lads?

thomond2006

phog wrote: »

That's more or less what Penney said earlier in the week as well, they'd need to dropping back into the team by then anyway with Leinster and two H/cup games up after that.

Did you notice the interviewer called him Ronan O'Mahony

Yes. If he called him Barry at least it would have been a fellow backrow!

phog

Roanmore wrote: »

Match is on Setanta now, the synopsis says Tony McGahan's Munster side, has nobody told them about Rob Penney

Rabo site has McGahan listed as coach too, maybe Setanta linked to this.

phog

RedScare's take on the game.

http://redscarerugby.com/2013/09/07/munster-34-edin-24-the-good-the-meh-the-awful/

DDC1990

I presume Double Jesus is JJ? :P

Hagz

Please don't let that catch on.

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience

Hagz wrote: »

Please don't let that catch on.

If ye can have Godigan we can have Jesus Jesus!

Hagz

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience wrote: »

If ye can have Godigan we can have Jesus Jesus!

Yeh but I think Hanrahan is the future after Sexton, and I don't wanna be reading Jesus Jesus in every match thread. Otherwise it'll be followed by a third Jesus from yours truly.

Howard Juneau

Something that annoyed me a little today is that some newspaper reports, & the sky website trying to downplay the win as we played an understrength Embra side.
More than a little unfair imo. It's not like we were anywhere near a full strength side either.