URC Round 9 - Connacht vs Munster - Saturday, Jan 1st @ 5.15pm - Premier Sports, TG4, URC TV

Larkham as well.

Can't see what he's actually brought to the side.

Munsters attacking strategy still looks non-existant.

Bundee is to Connacht what Nacewa was to Leinster. He's the onfield leader and the person who raises the standard of everyone around him.

The things is though, De Allende is a cornerstone of the South Africa side which was victorious at the World Cup and in the most recent Lions series. He's a very good player who hasn't had the same impact as Nacewa or Aki have on the the pitch. To me that suggests that there's a serious dysfunction elsewhere which needs addressing. And that's probably with regards to the coaching they're receiving.

Its probably not fair to be overly harsh on munster because of the disruption and lack of game time over the last while but im failing to take positives out of that game.

Casey is an international 9 with aspirations of being his club and countries starting SH, yet his speculative pass that Marmion picked off was never on and was only something that should be forced with penalty adv.

The when we had pen adv he didnt do it.

Coombes, haley, wycherly, daly have all the hallmarks of players who havent played a game in months and hopefully get back to their peak. Haleys tracking on marmion was decent.

Im unable to see what archer brings where that time wouldnt be better given to a younger player. He gives away stupid penalties, doesnt dominate the setpiece and doesnt carry well.

To me healy is a better prospect to carbery because he can kick better and is more durable. A change in coach bringing in a change in approach could go either way for him.

Scannell is not far behind archer in what hes bringing, and its another position where yourh might be the right call.

The problem now is that there will be 8 or so changes (J.Ryan, Beirne, POM, Murray, Earls, zebo…) for next week and more rusty players come back in with tonights players off to the backbenches until the 6 nations starts.

ulster will fancy their chances after watching that, and a result is needed in castres to get a home draw for the Heino cup.

Yea, coombes will benefit from game time alright.

Casey is a limited SH though what he does well he does very well but hes not going to get past murray anytime soon and we all know murray has aspects of his game that are lacking.

Doak needs to get past cooney first and that wont be easy.

Every province has 2 very good SH’s currently, but i dont think there is much wrong with who the top 2 are.

There is a game and a time for casey, and the munster game plan is neither. Hes a very good player who's attributes suit a team like leinster more than munster where they play with relentless tempo and ball in hand.

caseys box kicking isnt great, or at least its not near murrays, and munster have based a lot of their game on it because murray is so good at it and conway is a compliment to it.

An awful lot of judgments being cast after one game here by some.

I think he's saying it was a **** game to watch.

I think you're way overblowing one poor game. It happens all the time, I regularly watch top 14 matches with behemoths fill of superstars like Toulouse and La Rochelle that turn out to be absolutely septic with a result something like 12-6.

Apart from the Farrell card, I thought the ref had a good game.

The SA teams have only played away games and one round of derbies at home. Nobody should write them off right now, particularly a team like the Sharks as they will be fully loaded with their Springboks for the rest of the season.

Players get rested in the Top14 and Premiership too. It's just not as noticeable as internationals are spread more thinly in England and France. Dupont didn't play for Toulouse yesterday, he's played in 9 of 13 Top14 games this season and started in 7 of those.