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

Why would it be brilliant? Okay, it will infuse some of the young talented players there with confidence, but beyond that, what other benefit is there (other than financial)?

It's of a higher competitive / rugby advantage to South African rugby than to Irish rugby.

There is a risk of further injury problems coming from it.

What benefits did Munster reap from beating Australia in 2010?

This is complete bullshit, and illustrative of the sort of victim mentality you typically engage in when it comes to anything that could be deemed to be resembling criticism of Munster.

You studiously ignored posts I've made in recent weeks praising a lot of Munster's young talent (especially Jack Crowley), posts defending Gavin Coombes and posts praising some of Munster's recent performances.

On the other specific points you raised: (i) the situation with James French is 100% legitimately worthy of criticism, (ii) the quote from Rowntree on the McDonald signing did indicate Munster received financial assistance in my view.

I've criticised Leinster plenty of times for decisions I don't agree with (and in relatively recent times have criticised both Connacht, Ulster and Ireland too).

You're overly sensitive to criticism of Munster, and you think all of it comes from some sort of underlying, more deep rooted agenda rather than actually just engaging with the points as they are. You don't have to agree with it, that's your prerogative.

It's somewhat unusual - in a context where Munster are implying they had to make very hard decisions around playing resources in key positions (some implications in recent years that James Cronin and John Ryan's exits were budgetary concerns primarily), but these significantly more expensive players are funded. Will the 1014 Group only fund glamour signings?

In general though, yeah I agree it's a brilliant approach if you can get wealthy benefactors to ease the financial strain, and, I do generally agree that De Allende/Snyman/Kitshoff/Vermuelen etc are the sort of NIQs Irish provinces should be targeting; world class internationals who can elevate standards etc.

Look, I never said there were no positives in this game- but whatever positives are there, have to be weighed up in the context of a shocking injury list that has left them pretty decimated in certain positions.

A lot of the other potential positives are almost entirely performance dependent - it could be a really good night for further building on the really good promise guys like Josh Wycherley, Edwin Edogbo etc have shown, it could help to restore the confidence of guys who look to be lacking a bit this season like Ben Healy (and possibly Gavin Coombes now too), but that will entirely depend on how they go. It could, of course, have the opposite effect on these items too.