Munster Team Talk Thread - Beirne After Reading

Neil3030 · 15-04-2023 6:47pm

War God has found a whole new level of phenomenal today

leakyboots · 15-04-2023 6:47pm

POM, what a man. They shouldn't have annoyed him early on!

Clegg · 15-04-2023 6:51pm

I like the Stormers 12. Picks good lines and runs very powerfully.

Neil3030 · 15-04-2023 6:59pm

Surprised Casey hasn't been brought on yet. You'd think his ~~shithousery~~ energy and tempo would help as the Stormers tire here...

Brief_Lives · 15-04-2023 7:00pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120481950#Comment_120481950

Munster look knackered though... he'd be on his own all the time..

COnor is perfect for this game now.

CIARAN_BOYLE · 15-04-2023 7:00pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120481950#Comment_120481950

Its very rare that a sub scrumhalf doesn't improve the team.

Especially at 70 minutes. I do think its past time to bring him on.

Brief_Lives · 15-04-2023 7:03pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120481950#Comment_120481950

well, he is on now.... behind sofa time.. don't let fekitoa near the ball craig..

leakyboots · 15-04-2023 7:04pm

I think Gav finally woke up

Neil3030 · 15-04-2023 7:05pm

🎵 I loooove Gavin Coombes

🎵 Score another try from a yard out babyyyy...

leakyboots · 15-04-2023 7:07pm

That fella is an atrocious kicker

Clegg · 15-04-2023 7:08pm

Willemse is a ludicrously talented rugby player. It's an indictment on Stormers coaching set up that they can't get him into the game.

stephen_n · 15-04-2023 7:09pm

Munsters defence in the first 10 minutes of the second half won this game. Which will be hugely satisfying for the players after recent games.

leakyboots · 15-04-2023 7:09pm

Earls has looked very sharp since coming on, great to see

Neil3030 · 15-04-2023 7:10pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120481983#Comment_120481983

And the first half.

Save for a mix-up in comms between Fekitoa and (I think) Daly, we'd have held them to a single score in the first half.

Clegg · 15-04-2023 7:10pm

Not seen as poor a kicking performance from a 10 since Brock James at the RDS.

gameoverdude · 15-04-2023 7:11pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120481989#Comment_120481989

Absolutely awful.

leakyboots · 15-04-2023 7:12pm

The Fields ringing around the stadium...! What a win this is, huge.

Clegg · 15-04-2023 7:13pm

That's a great win.

Does a huge favour for Ulster as well.

A-Train · 15-04-2023 7:13pm

A great win for Munster

Neil3030 · 15-04-2023 7:14pm

I think Healy had a huge immediate impact on the game, but the longer the game went on he was involved in a lot of what went wrong.

realhorrorshow · 15-04-2023 7:18pm

Happy for Munster despite the implications for Connacht. Beat the Sharks next week and I'll forgive you.

FrancieBrady · 15-04-2023 7:18pm

Some win!

Libock will be persona non grata tonight. Unforgivable kicking.

Eod100 · 15-04-2023 7:19pm

Huge result. Sharks and Benneton can't finish above us. Bulls and Connacht can mathematically but looking unlikely.

CIARAN_BOYLE · 15-04-2023 7:23pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120482024#Comment_120482024

Lions cant.

Bulls maybe?

Eod100 · 15-04-2023 7:27pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120482037#Comment_120482037

Meant Bulls alright. D'oh!

Roxxers · 15-04-2023 7:52pm

who got motm ?

Neil3030 · 15-04-2023 7:56pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120482125#Comment_120482125

POM

sioda · 15-04-2023 7:56pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120482125#Comment_120482125

POM

pickarooney · 15-04-2023 8:05pm

POMOTM

phog · 15-04-2023 9:57pm

That was a brilliant result, try BP win away from home. Absolutely brilliant for us. I thought Murray was the making of that win along with POM, Kleyn & RGS.

What a game from Archer, played the full 80 and still putting himself about at the end.

I know we coughed up a few penalties but my god I'm not sure what the ref was watching, they got away with absolute murder at times.

kuang1 · 15-04-2023 10:40pm

I'm very reluctant these days to talk about refs, but that reffing today was bizarre from start to finish.

Would have to rewatch it to know if it had an outcome on the final scoreboard, but between signalling for penalties that turned out not to be, and the TMO intervening inconsequentially, it was... Bizarre!

Podge_irl · 15-04-2023 11:17pm

Was an excellent win. Completely undoes the damage from the Glasgow defeat.

I'd say 1 point against the Sharks would be enough to avoid dropping to 6th and having to travel to SA, but I actually think Munster are well placed to win that game now. That victory will do wonders for them.

aloooof · 16-04-2023 12:04am

Some of my thoughts on that

Our best result all season, at a time when we badly needed it.
Huge response from the last day, particularly in the 15-20 mins after half time where we disintegrated vs Sharks. Coombes with 2 huge turnovers during that defensive set, and it culminated in that superb Daly try.
Our attacking maul looked great all day
Thought we went for the poach much more frequently today than we have done all season. Defensively, we had to scramble a lot at times, but did so significantly better than vs Sharks.
That pitch was in a shocking condition even before kick-off.
POM absolutely outstanding. Thought our entire starting back-row went very well. Kendellen's a bloody nuisance.
That hand in the face (twice) on POM... simply has to be more than a penalty.
Snyman looks like he has a chance to get back to his pre-injury best. Really encouraging performance again from him.
Kleyn quality again, doing pretty much what he does every game for us and Archer deserves a mention too.
Injuries to Snyman and Coombes tho, it seemed? Hopefully nothing too bad, 2 huge players for us at the pointy end of the season...

aloooof · 16-04-2023 12:07am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120481906#Comment_120481906

Disagee tbh. Couple of errors, sure, but I actually thought he did really well other than that and should retain the starting jersey for the rest of the season. Thought some of his carrying and passing was excellent.

kuang1 · 16-04-2023 6:35am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120482951#Comment_120482951

Yeah agree here. The errors were blatant, pass intercept and a penalty given away for no clear release spring to mind.

But I really like what he brings in both attack and defence. He has an edge that Joey just never had, nor Healy. And Rowntree is right imo to finally let him have-at the 10 jersey. Hopefully he has it again next week.

aloooof · 16-04-2023 7:51am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120483143#Comment_120483143

To me, the biggest error was a missed tackle on their centre for one of the tries, but we saw plenty other really good contributions from him.

I’d even forgive him the 2 errors you mention, they’re the type of errors you can accept as it comes from trying to do the right thing.

Intercept passes can be very marginal; take the Daly try, Healy’s pass was so close to being intercepted but instead took 2 players out of the game.

And if your 10 is abrasive enough to jackal, that can only be a good thing. (I remember him winning a counter-ruck earlier in the season.

phog · 16-04-2023 9:35am

That was some win, a BP win in a stadium where the current URC champions haven't lost since Dec 21.We're the first URC team to win down there in a game where both teams needed the win.

Great start to the game to get the lead then a great start to the second half with some awesome defense and eventually getting a turnover to give us an opportunity to get upfield which led to a try to take the lead again.

aloooof · 16-04-2023 9:41am

Was it just me, or was the ref mic being played, booming out over the stadium btw?

kuang1 · 16-04-2023 9:59am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120483352#Comment_120483352

Yeah think I noticed that once or twice too.

phog · 16-04-2023 10:00am

It sounded like the ref mic was broadcast within the stadium while discussing stuff with TMO. This is a great idea and needs to happen more.

kuang1 · 16-04-2023 10:03am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120483204#Comment_120483204

In real time, I was thinking that Healy coming on at 55 minutes was a somewhat spontaneous decision based on a couple of Crowley's errors.

But in hindsight I think it might be because he's going to start the next match too at 10, and was a pre-planned thing.

aloooof · 16-04-2023 10:35am

https://twitter.com/caolansrugby00/status/1647514470766239744?s=46&t=XjW5CNHwGCzxMKsJum63EA

Great thread on the game

stephen_n · 16-04-2023 10:54am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120483204#Comment_120483204

To me, the biggest error was a missed tackle on their centre for one of the tries

It seemed to me they targeted Crowley, that wasn’t an isolated incident with their centre attacking his channel. They got good meterage out of it too. One of the things I like about Crowley is he is not shy in the tackle. He seemed off there last night though.

aloooof · 16-04-2023 11:08am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120483537#Comment_120483537

He combined that with some good tackles too tho. Imo, he still defended much better than we’ve seen from Carbery this season.

An aside, saw this on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/snipinscrumhalf/status/1647283954964111361?s=46&t=XjW5CNHwGCzxMKsJum63EA

stephen_n · 16-04-2023 11:14am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120483576#Comment_120483576

Yep he’s very robust. That’s why it surprised me that they seemed to deliberately target his channel. There is no comparison between his defence and Carberrys. It’s night and day.

Water John · 16-04-2023 12:12pm

And he held onto the ball

Eod100 · 16-04-2023 12:33pm

Looking at the table 1st to 4th are now nailed on and likely in the order they're in. As it stands we'd be playing Glasgow away in a semi-final the weekend of 5th May.

Connacht could mathematically overtake us if they get 4 match points over us in last game so them with a normal win and us not getting a lbp/tbp or them getting a tbp win and us not getting lbp/tbp.

Bulls could mathematically overtake us if they get 5 match points over us but they're playing Leinster who will be motivated to keep their unbeaten streak going.

Bottom line is holding onto 5th is within our control bar things going very badly against us.

phog · 16-04-2023 1:24pm

Glasgow have nothing to play for next weekend, they might we'll be beaten by Connacht, we need a LBP at least, possibly two to stay in 5th place

Eod100 · 16-04-2023 2:15pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120483912#Comment_120483912

With Connacht playing after us we will be aiming for the win of course. Glasgow likely be more focused on their Challenge Cup semi final against Scarlets the following Saturday

Neil3030 · 16-04-2023 5:16pm

The main thing for me is that the Carbery-Crowley 10-12 axis is to be avoided at all costs. It provides two targets for dominant defensive hits or big carriers. Too much for the back row and Frisch to stress about.

Crowley has the 10 shirt in my mind, but I think it's a bit more complex than saying "we're better defensively with him at 10".

I mean, we are. Crowley is a superior defender. But the big big factor is Feiktoa-Frisch in the centre, which for me has been the foundation of the best defensive performances this season.

Munster Team Talk Thread - Beirne After Reading

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