Connacht vs Munster 07/10/2022

Some really bizarre decisions and missed calls from the referee all night.

User name, half checks out.

And Carty thinking he's kicking at Aussie rules posts.

This is so, so bad from Munster. Yes, they're in transition, but Connacht have been dreadful this season and we're massive underdogs for this fixture.

Logical suggests so that is Connaught were not so dreadful they would probably have a BP win tonight.

Munster are now an embarrassment

Joey Carberry had a poor game I thought. Munster backs apart from Patrick Campbell were someway off the pace.

Commentator on Premiere 2 called that game "the Desperation Derby ' and I applaud him.

He lost his confidence after the last long term injury and has never recovered it. He used to be an excellent tackler and was much more relaxed ball in hand. He might get it back but its becoming a bit worrying now.

Ahh let's be fair it's Cartys first game for 6 months. It basically a pre season game for him. What's the excuse for the other 29 players?

I waited to watch Munster over a few games before I made comment. They're awful. Definitely the 4th team in Ireland now. They have a tough run of games coming up also. The players aren't there essentially but also coupled with a loss of that Munster spirit which use to get us over the line in a lot of games over the years. The province needs a full reset I think. Wjy aren't we competing at the level we used to. I'm sure they will slightly improve as the season goes on but I think a very poor season might be the kick up the arse they need.

I have to laugh at the munster's narrative, all bluster but let's be honest they have played agriculture rugby since o'gara left. Its really like the English going on about 1966, 2008 is a long time ago. I reckon munster will come good under the current manager but not this season.

Carbery has never been so bad in any game I've ever seen him

Munster's best out half is sitting on a bench watching 'Emerging Ireland' play a warm-up game for a nothing game between two nothing teams halfway across the world.

Same with our best 7. JOD has been playing awfully, but Hodnet is away on holiday with EI which is absolutely screwing our pack balance

Murray had a terrible game, Salanoa is finally showing how good he is, and he's 10 thousand miles away

Munster are almost at a point now where we're relying on other teams to do us favours to allow us to qualify for ERC rugby next year

I feel sorry for carbery as I reckon he was never suited for munster with their current squad. Ross Byrne as a O'Gara like player was always the OH they should have gone for. But maybe it was not munster's choice

The reason Healy wasn't sent on tour was because he is not seen as good enough by the IRFU. based on the last few weeks, it's hard to disagree

Knox played relatively well today, the problem seemed to be with the loose head and hooker, when Barron came on, the scrum improved immediately, Kilcoyne was not scrummaging well, JW would have probably been playing or at least on the bench tonight

I think a lot of Munster fans knew that this year would be a transition year, with a new coaching ticket and a more modern brand of rugby. But the extent of the transition has really been shown in these opening few games. We’re a long, long way off, that is going to take a couple of years to turn this around.

At this stage, Munster aren’t looking likely to make the Champions Cup next year. I think right now, the Munster Branch and the management need to realign their goals and look to build a team/squad to compete for honours long term. That means making a few tough decisions on veteran squad players.

The emerging Ireland tour absolutely screwed the coaching ticket. We can't make those decisions, because the best 'fringe' players are all in SA now and we're left with the under performing senior players and some extremely raw and unproven teenagers

Munster have experienced a good few demoralising losses to Connacht over the last 6 years, more painfull than the losses to Leinster. Rugby should have been the No1 sport in Munster after those great teams of the 2000's.

It is the same for Connacht and Ulster though. Leinster are fine due to the amount of depth.

Transition?

You would swear we are transitioning players from one sport to another the way they are playing.

Transition has nothing to do with it when there are simple mistakes being made.