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

Still not there for me, anyway.

I think tonight really showed that for all Murray's experience, he really isn't a leader.

Zebo made two nice runs back from deep which looked promising at first, only for the attack to then go side-to-side, gradually conceding territory until Connacht won a penalty turnover at half way.

Each scenario was crying out for a leader to call for a couple of phases after the break, then to go back to the box-kick and press defense which had worked earlier in the half to carve out a score. Instead they showed inexperience, got a rush of adrenaline from the break, and made the wrong decision.

Not sure that's on the coaches, imo. Senior players have to step up there.

Why not end it now, play Coombes at 8 and Aherne at 4 with maybe Kendellen at 6?

If Aherne can't 'clean the toilet' then he's no business being a starter with Munster. They all need to roll up their sleeves a bit now after that month of manure.

Conn fan here but think you guys are being a bit hard on the team. The conditions well appalling and you're missing so many players. Get a few bodies back and you should get top 4 comfortably enough.

That said your line out was comical, worst I've seen in a long time. Shane Delahunt doesn't have a contract so you should give him a call, why connacht let him go I'll never know.

Also I've full faith in the current set up to get it right. They've been dealt a shocking hand but delivered a trophy ahead of time last year. They know what they are at.

Wrong thread

Looked bad today especially set pieces but things will improve very quickly once injured players start coming back

I really like his footwork in contact. He's very light, can step around, pivot, find an angle so he doesn't meet the tackler head on. Takes less damage and then pretty much just needs to fall forward to guarantee at least a 2m gain.

I'm not sure what's ore depressing, the result or the reaction here

Before kick off we were down to the bare bones, we lose Jager on 10mims and Jacko just before halftime.

Our lineout was a shambles but look who we're missing, our two first choice hookers, the named hooker was a late change. Then weret missing RGS, Kleyn, POM all would be an immediate improvement to our lineout woes.

The refs are there to protect players, two injuries tonight from clearouts with players coming in from the side, Murray gets pinged for a high tackle but a few minutes later nothing for the high tackle on Zebo, who once again had a good game in awful conditions.

I think I said this already in the thread but we have the Welsh teams& Zebre coming up after the Champions Cup, if we can get a few players back by then we could be picking points.

Hope Jager, Jacko and Hasen have a speedy recovery

Calls for an Irish call up look extremely premature in my opinion. Was really paying attention to him today and thought Bar a couple of moments he was pretty anonymous.

For test level you really need to be more involved in those conditions. Prendergast was POTM today and Baird had a huge impact last week when he came on in similar conditions.

Lots of call for Munster to sign some medical jokers...but where do we get them from...unless some clubs want to ship on some squad players for a few weeks

For some reason i thought he started a senior deal this year but i guess that must start next year.