Leinster v Munster match thread

Munster might lose by 40 in this one. Thats a much stronger leinster team than i expected, and seemingly no one on the munster side who went for further evaluation pulled through.

Casey is the key for me. You can’t beat a better pack by plodding and murray is a plodder.

What: URC league match, Leinster V Munster

Where: Lansdowne Road in Dublin

When: Kicks off at 5.15pm (Irish Time) on Saturday 22nd Oct 2022

How to watch: TV: RTÉ, Premier Sports, SuperSport, Discovery +. On-line: RTÉ player, Premier Sports Player, and URC.tv.

Couldn't find any source for radio.

It's a derby! Anything can happen. Plus Healy won't last very long, he's a 20 minute player. Sheehan must be absolutely a beast. 70 minutes almost every week.

Ahern will cause mayhem for Leinster in the line out. I think this will be close. Munster will come out like possessed goats and bring the physicality.

Andrew Brace.

Do you have to be an absolute dick in every comment you post?

The pashun is strong, Ologist! The force is with them all. But, Brace is the adjudicator of all things 🏉 this week at the Aviva. Mantra's are blessed. If we don't have them, what do we have?

Of course the physicality will be out there! Connacht brought it in spades last week! They gave Leinster everything they could handle . Munster will be flying into tackles and rucks like a herd of wilderbeasts. The line out alone, will be must watch TV. My grippers will be puckering on every Leinster throw in. It's not just the passhun and physicality, it's just not VanGranns version of ineptitude and cluelessness. Buyers beware of a red storm rising! 😳

Reasonably confident that Leinster will win this with a bonus points. The front row, half backs and centres are significantly better than their Munster counterparts on paper.

I do think there's an unknown element around Munster now however. For years, Leinster had the blueprint of how to beat them. If they fanned their defence out in preparation of a Stander carry, they could put two men on him, stop him from getting over the gainline and Munster then had nobody else in the pack good enough at carrying to worry Leinster.

But with the introduction of younger, more powerful forwards, Leinster won't find it as easy to smother them. Add a greater willingness to play through the backline and Leinster won't have all the answers they once did.

Leinster will probably win tomorrow. Munster have too many injuries and and further along in the development of their style. Future fixtures will be interesting though.

It's not a bad Munster XV but that bench is callow, to say the least.

Struggling to see how Munster stay in this tbh

Sexton starting is a complete game changer. Leinster's attack when he's at 10, is incomparable to when Byrne is at 10. To say it's 10x better with Sexton would be an understatement. We saw against the Sharks just how slick Leinster's attack looked. Whereas in the games Byrne was at 10, it's very lateral, laboured and lacking any cutting edge.

If Sexton wasn't playing, I'd have said Munster have a good chance. But now that he is, I can't see Munster outscoring Leinster. That being said, Leinster's breakdown has been really poor this season, and that's an area where Munster could get some access into the game. The scrum is another area where Leinster are weak and Munster should target them there. Although Jenkins being back is a huge boost.

If Sexton plays 60 minutes, I'm saying Leinster by 10.

I'm going on this season. And so far this season, I don't think Leinster's attack has been good, other than against the Sharks (the one game Sexton has played). We've been grinding out results through our forwards and our defence (being able to do that is no bad thing).

Prediction time.

Ryan to drop in the warm up, Molony to start, McCarthy to bench

Not really. Vastly overstated and not really relevant to tomorrow's game when the Munster front row have a combined total of zero test minutes.

Do you never stop to think how it's funny that Ireland are sh*t at everything and the coach continually picks the wrong guys, but we're ranked 1 in the world?

Or how it's odd that Leinster are so bad but are bookies favourites for both URC and Europe?

If munster had edogbo and beirne in the scrum, maybe they could target it.

https://youtu.be/iMZa-HZQyDg?t=2589

43 mins in if it doesn't redirect.

These are separate incidents btw

I don't think either of these things. If you do, that's fair enough. But I'd disagree.

I think Ireland are a very good team, who've enjoyed some excellent results of late, but with a couple of weaknesses that will need to be addressed if we're to challenge for the world cup next year. But I don't think Ireland are the faultless, all-conquering team that many in here seem to think they are. Or at least, it seems that way when literally any criticism or opinion that isn't utter adulation, is taken as thinking they're sh*t.

I'd say Leinster have been ok so far this season. There's been no outstanding results. Zebre cut through us like we were novices in defense. The Sharks fronted up and made the game brilliant. Connacht gave us a he'll of a fight. Still, undefeated and coming up to the break. But, Leinster haven't really ran over anyone! Tomorrow's match is going to be a bruising encounter. Munster will bring it on. I think a 7 point win for Leinster.

I guess the passion really has gone. I remember when Munster used to be amazing at grudge & derby matches.

Munster are playing our strongest available team.

So are Leinster it seems.

If we had our full strength team we would have the following players in the squad

Snyman

Casey

Earls

Conway

Fekitoa

Frisch

Salanoa

Edogbo

Beirne

P.O.M

Haley

Zebo

Alex Kendellen

Calvin Nash

That's 14 out of 23 unavailable.

Of our senior players left available, we have Conor Murray who is not at all suited to the gamestyle we want to play so he's actively hurting us, and Carbery who has been consistently bad for a year apart from a glimpse of potential last week. Our in form 10 is playing 15 because we have nobody else to play there considering Carbery sh1t the bed when he played there 2 weeks ago

Leinster: Ciarán Frawley, Jimmy O’Brien, Garry Ringrose, Robbie Henshaw, Jamie Osborne, Johnny Sexton, Luke McGrath, Cian Healy, Dan Sheehan, Tadhg Furlong, Jason Jenkins, James Ryan, Max Deegan, Scott Penny, Caelan Doris

Replacements: John McKee, Andrew Porter, Michael Ala’alatoa, Ross Molony, Jack Conan, Nick McCarthy, Ross Byrne, Rob Russell

Your team for tomorrow contains

5 internationals in the backline

5 internationals in your forward pack

3 internationals in your subs bench,

and I might have missed a couple