Munster Team Talk Thread - New season title pending....

He's definitely coming under a lot more pressure in the scrum alright. It'll be interesting to see the pecking order at loosehead by the season's end. If I were to guess I'd say Kilcoyne might find himself as our third choice. Wycherley is already as effective around the park (if not more so) and even though he's not there yet as a scrummager he has plenty of potential.

Just home from it, that was great fun. Was not expecting that amount of tries in those conditions, the rain was pretty bad.

Delighted for Healy, he needed a big game to remind us what he can do. Shane Daly too, looked very sharp. How exciting is Edogbo, only 19 and is not only not-looking-out-of-place but is seriously putting a hand up for more minutes. Very bright future. Haley was excellent too, composure personified (not sure about the try though!). Scannell looked very good too at 12.

In terms of the atmosphere - it was great when it got going but I'll be honest there were plenty of lulls throughout too. It was a good atmosphere but nothing to make me think we have to move matches to this place. Too far from the pitch, screen there is awful small too. But nice to know it's an option now. Great to see it sold out.

There's a potentially very good team coming down the tracks if the coaching/injury/reaching potential aspect of things work out. Wycherley, Barron, Salanoa, Knox, Edogbo, Aherne, Kendellen, Hodnett, Coombes, Casey, Patterson, Crowley, Healy is a lovely talent pool from 1-10 alone.

Can't wait to watch it back.

That pickup was class alright. I remember being at the game convinced we had knocked it on.

The first scrum against Clermont had me genuinely worried for his safety but he shored it up well after that. He had a tough day against Toulouse as well. Still, he's just a baby as far as props are concerned so fingers crossed!

I wonder how many people drive from Cork to Limerick for league matches, or how many kids take the bus? Having matches in Munster's largest city would definitely attract people who otherwise aren't attending. Fans who don't attend matches are less valuable to Muster than those who do and giving youngsters access to matches will definitely help build the sport. It's not a question of whether it's a good idea and would be effective, it's a question of whether it makes financial sense for the team. PUC has twice the capacity of Thomond so it seems like a no brainer to have a few big matches every year there.

Munster have commitments to season ticket holders, 10 year season ticket holders and corporate sponsors that mean that they are unlikely to move the 3 games a year that would be sell outs to another stadium..Game v Leinster and the 2 gauranteed european games are all that sell out...quarter finals on are not always gauranteed..while last night was a great occassion its not going to be commercially viable to move all "big" games to Cork. Thomond has a capacity of 25,600, which they up some times for "big" games. Last night was a sell out at 41k so an increase of 14k...when you take renting the ground out how much are Munster making. The Aviva holds 52k and you can be sure the IRFU are giving better rates so if its purely a money argument then we should move all big games to Dublin. I dont think Munster would get 41k for a URC home game v Cardiff for example so we need to be careful that we dont jump on the Cork bandwagon when we already have 2 stadiums in place with Thomond and Musgrave. I have friends who were at the game last night because it was an occassion but they will never be in musgrave on a wet friday night, so building the fan base isnt an arguement either.

I think Munster in the Páirc works and can see Munster using it again. My tickets in section 409 were on the try line but we had a great view of all the pitch. I there's a few issues that would need to reviewed/resolved if we're using it again - why no P&R to the ground, I saw some people struggle with the long walk to/from the ground. Catering didn't seemed to be prepared for the crowd, the big screen was tiny, close to useless. Very few flags provided by MRSC, I know this was notified in advance but I think we missed an opportunity to have a mass of red flags flying when the team ran to Zombie.

Cork city businesses seemed to miss that most of the crowd would be returning to the city for food afterwards, McDs near MQ was closed, McDs down at the end of Oliver Plunkett street was takeaway only which meant Burger King had a queue out the door.

The queue to the pay machine in Q Park at City Hall was over 100m when we arrived with little or no movement. We left it and walked into town for food.

Usually after a 19:30 kick off in Musgrave Park I'm home by about midnight, that includes stopping for fast food but last night it was just before 2am before I got home.

Yeah I think there are a lot of positive signs, that there is a gameplan forming. Defence is usually the first part to click. I still think it will be the new year before we can really judge the new setup properly though. Much more positive than the last few years.

Only caught the end of this match but Munster looked a transformed team. Worthy and deserving winners. Maybe this will kickstart their season

Good point but to get to the dart from the west is hassle in itself

Definitely looked like a team who'd had a fire lit under them. Connacht at home in a couple of weeks, then Edinburgh away, before Toulouse at home. Get good momentum going when the internationals are back and that Toulouse game is very winnable.

On the slightly negative side, Coombes was one man who I thought didn't play like he had a point to prove last night.

Wasnt at the game, but any pics I saw on social media from the crowd, the pitch looked miles away, hated game in Croke Park for that reason.

What was it like in person?

One Person I know who went had a railing in is way that blocked the view of most of the pitch and anothers' seat didnt exist when he got there. there was a pillar there instead