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

Yes

both will most likely get released no?

We’ll get one of Carbury or Crowley back unless there is another injury at out half. It would be exciting to see both Snyman and Okeke on the bench. Campbell I think is back from a knock too.

We’re down to the bare bones unless we get a few of those available, but as of now we don’t know the Irish 23 and we don’t know how bad those injuries that required scans are, and no update given on Knox or Snyman other than vague updates that they’ll be ready some time in March. Missing the U20 players too is a blow, are Scarlets as depleted as we are?

I don’t know if anyone watched the Chiefs game this morning, but supposedly Nankivell was quite impressive in the Chiefs win over the Crusaders.

i think my comments here will show I’m not a unconditional fan of Carberry, but the fanboy article’s about Ross Byrne are pretty annoying. Yesterday 24/02/23 in the Indo one ran across 2 pages with a photo and breathless comments from previous coaches, his father and teammates. Even had comments from Kelvin Leahy Munster senior School medal winner from 1983 and a coach at St Michael’s.

Irish Times today 25/02/23 has a photo and a comment in the article about how he is a calming influence- please!

for me Byrne is an average player at provincial level who doesn’t have a big match temperament He’s consistently failed to bring the ball to the line in attack thereby tying up a defender- or even breaking the tackle/ offloading

he may have improved but this drooling fanboy “journalism “ is wearing

BTW I hope he proves me wrong on the pitch

I would hope that Crowley starts as 10 on Friday night. He needs game time and he needs to show the public what kind of 10 he is because doing it behind closed doors in Carton House isn't doing his career any good

If you've been watching Munster this season and last season you'll have seen plenty of reasons why he's an exciting prospect. (Not dissing you if you haven't, I wouldn't expect most people to watch most or all of the Munster URC games)

I am very excited to see RG back too, but expectations need to be tempered a little bit given how long he's been out of action. If he comes on, has a few good involvements and goes off without injury I'll be happy. If he makes a few handling errors or is a bit off the pace, I'd forgive him that for the first few games at least. Hopefully he's back firing on all cylinders by the time we play Sharks in the Heineken Cup knockout on 1st of April