Munster Team Talk Thread - Snymans are(n't) Forever

Towards the end of the game he was under pressure understandably, but when Knox went off?

I never said he was?

Another impressive performance indicating a continued gradient of improvement. Rowntree also gave a very impressive rallying interview after the game. He's the man to take Munster back to the top imo. And with Lancaster and probably Sexton leaving Leinster next season....

So

Carbery is probably injured next week for Ulster, Kleyn might also be injured and Jack O Sullivan is almost certainly another long term injury, Nash, Murray, Coombes, POM, Loughman, Casey and Beirne will all probably be at Irish camp

We need lots of guys to come back from injury this week or we might be into Wasps territory, pulling guys in from the sub academy to field a team next week

yay

Are the Ireland A guys unavailable too? If that’s the case I doubt Munster could field a team. Assuming Ireland release some front three players from the A squad so the game vs Ulster isn’t cancelled the team could be something like:

1. Dave Kilcoyne
2. Diarmuid Barron
3. Kenyan Knox
4. Evan O’Connell
5. Eoin O’Connor
6. Jack O’Donoghue
7. John Hodnett
8. Ruadhan Quinn
9. Paddy Patterson
10. Ben Healy
11. Ihechi Oji
12. Rory Scannell
13. Dan Goggin
14. Conor Philips
15. Pa Campbell
16. James French
17. Scott Buckley
18. Liam O’Connor
19. Cian Hurley
20. Sean Odogbo
21. Ethan Caughlan
22. Tony Butler
23. Fionn Gibbons

I was happy enough with our performance, the most disappointing part of the game for me was letting McGrath score his try, we had cover there but just let him get through. Considering other attempts by Leinster to score and our defence holding solid that was disappointing.

Our set pieces worked well until all the enforced changes and then the scrum started to creek.

I've no great issue with the two YCs, though I did see some non Munster fans question Kleyn's card but I do think James Ryan was lucky not to have picked one up too for his half arsed attempt to throw two punches and on another day Sexton could have got one too but them's the breaks.

I was kind of worried about Scannell and Goggin as out centre pairing last night but they did much better than I had expected them to do against Henshaw and Ringrose.

As the game progressed I thought we'd squeeze a LBP out of it but unfortunately our bench wasn't up the what Leinster could bring on and we got injuries to players where we didn't really have the cover.

Unless we get some injured players back then next Saturday could have a very odd look to it.

I was working the game so havent seen game properly yet only scanned through some of it earlier today before work. but for penalty against Murray. Was it a ruck and McGrath had hands on ball but had not lifted the ball/taken it from ruck? Hands on ball from scrum half doesnt mean anyone from opposition can play the scrum half. the scrum half has to take ball into their possession. just putting hands on ball isnt that.

Kleyn had to be yellow. was he realistic chance of blocking the ball. no Imo. he then takes leinster player out.

On Ahern.. you could say similar about multiple rucks in any game for any team. far from a ref error. just what they saw

McGrath had lifted the ball.

agreed - every ruck is a potential penalty for either team

anyway I’m looking at it with red-tinted glasses

That's a punch

The still doesn't tell the story though. It was not a punch.

I generally ignore your posts here as they are usually some sort of a wind up.

You're way off the mark if you think when a player clinches his fist and hits an opposition player, twice, is not classed a punch.

I'd be fairly sure if a Munster player did this you'd be the first on here moaning

Give over. There was barely any contact.