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

Sob to center, kilgallen to wing.

Be grand we just need health

I’d be happy if we started playing Shane Daly at 13, his proper position. Think he’d be a weapon from there, looked very good at 13 in the 20’s.

Best of luck to Frisch if he goes, a year left on his contract, so probably a small transfer fee due.

He'll be top class if he's an upgrade to Frisch

Rowntree isn't exactly picking him to play in the centre either. The truth is Daly's handling is nowhere near good enough to be a centre. He has a minimum of 2 to 3 knock ons in every game, as a winger with less touches of the ball.

I think Daly will be under pressure next year for his starting jersey. I could see a Kilgallen (if he can get a run injury free) and Nash be Munster's first choice wingers with Daly being predominately in the 23 jersey.

And for all of Van Graan's "terrible player management", Josh Wycherley; Diarmuid Barron; Scott Buckley; Fineen Wycherley; Tom Ahern; Alex Kendellen; John Hodnett; Jack O’Sullivan; Gavin Coombes; Craig Casey; Jack Crowley; Jack Daly; Patrick Campbell were all given their debuts by Van Graan.

it’s a good trip my second time down here for games(2018 being the first time). You are paying A premium for it to be organised. If you did it yourself. It would be cheaper. But the upside is you can be with a good group. Still friend with people We have met in these tours. And some Parts of SA are not safe. So having local tour guides direct you a better sense of security.

fold up the tent i suppose and quit rugby altogether. No point in going on.

If Loughman is still in the frame for Ireland for the post-Healy era, then this makes sense. If he's not, then maybe not.

I would really like to see some front-rower being signed though.

There's kind of a game you have to play i think when it comes to contracting.

Ed Byrne has interest in england and ireland, so he probably wants more than a one year deal so i would avoid him. I'd want someone for one year as a stopgap, and then try again on boyle (apparently a one year deal) or an NIQ.

O Sullivan could be a good one year option. You really want to present a picture of scarcity and pray humphries is more open to ideas lol.

Edit; the last rumour i heard was byrne to ulster. I don't mind that if o toole is moving but not super excited.

1999 - Fitzpatrick, Clarke, Irwin
2006 - Horan, Flannery, Hayes
2008 - Horan, Flannery, Hayes
2009 - Healy, Jackman, Wright
2011 - Healy, Strauss, Ross
2012 - Healy, Strauss, Ross
2018 - Healy, Cronin, Furlong

These are the requisite calibres of front rows for Irish provinces to win a European cup. I count only four of the above list that were developed solely in house: Horan, Hayes, Healy and Furlong. I also count one European Cup in the Nucifora era, i.e., since greater emphasis was placed on the provinces using IQ players. Interestingly, the above list are indeed mostly IQ, but the flipside is, one European cup in 12 years suggests they do not come along at anything close to the required frequency.

As an island of human primates, we just don't seem to be replete with whatever genetic mutations are required to be elite level scrummagers. So I dunno, do we call time on the Nucifora approach? If the IRFU put any value on provinces going long in the European Cup, and on players being tested in that pressure environment, we might need to look at more NIQ props being permitted.

Those first few cups were won by having only two front row players on the bench too. 22 man squads back in those days

Something that we don't see teams doing a lot is what Eddie Jones had Japan doing in the RWC where they got it in to the hooker and back down the channel to 8 and out of the scrum in a couple of seconds. Have scrummaging laws put paid to that?

Read all the words, Richie.

Good lad.