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

Was away over the weekend, so didn't get to see either game, and just watched the Munster game back last night.

Really good performance. From what I'd read, I was expected the Sharks to be more dominant in the first half, but on watching didn't actually think that was the case. Munster had some decent chances and possession in the 1H too.

Thought Diarmuid Barron, Jean Kleyn, Alex Kendellen, Conor Murray, Ben Healy, Malakai Fekitoa and Calvin Nash all were excellent. Barron looks to have found his mojo again a bit.

Kendellen for me has been a standout over the past two games - have said it before but I think he's a more traditional openside than Hodnett and brings a real jackal / disruptive threat to Munster. He also plays with a spikiness or aggression that is great to me.

Great to see Conor Murray in such good form coming into RWC season. He was excellent over the trip to SA.

Ben Healy is the form outhalf in the Munster camp right now, and presumably starts the QF? Crowley has been pretty poor for me the last two times out. He's clearly a good rugby player, but still not seeing the signs from him that he's an international calibre outhalf yet.

I dunno on Crowley - absolutely didn't see him as superb in the Stormers game. He was better than he was on Saturday, but superb is a big stretch.

Healy's introduction changed both games significantly.

To me, for all of Crowley's talent and ability, he still looks like he's lacking composure. That's not unexpected given how young and relatively inexperienced he is, and the only real solution will be to keep backing him and giving him gametime, but Munster's attack to me just feels a bit shapeless and haphazard with him steering the ship.

I can't think of an 80-min performance from him this season where he had a commanding game from 10. Maybe I'm forgetting one, but I'm pretty sure I've seen every game.

I'm not saying he won't get there, but he definitely isn't there yet.

I literally didn’t say superb.

Sorry, think I got confused with a message I read on another thread.

Ultimately Crowley still only has 10 starts from 10. He’s shown more than enough to continue to be backed.

I don't disagree with this; but it will raise a question coming into the RWC camps and warm up games as to whether or not he's actually shown enough to be trusted as the third 10 in a RWC Squad.

People are going to scoff at this, but I think Harry Byrne has shown more at 10 this year in his good run of starts in 2023 than Crowley has. Crowley's versatility might still get him the nod, but I really don't think he's nailed on as one of our three 10s to go to France.

I'm sorry, were you appointed a moderator here without the rest of us being notified?

Wonder if Munster will run the rule over Luke Cowan Dickie after his move to Montpellier seems to have collapsed following his going on the piss, ending up in the drunk tank and failing to turn up to his medical.

He's a good player if the nerve damage in his neck isn't too big an issue. 10 years or so of chop tackling people with your head will cause some problems.