LIVE EVENT!!! The RGS Croke Park FUNdraiser - Leinster v Munster KO Sat 5:45 RTÉ 2 LIVE!!!!

I hear Snyman is celebrating his injury-free run with a braai around his firepit tonight.

Handicap on Paddy Power is Leinster -14, I know Munster have some injuries but that sounds very wide to me.

Not sure 'best tries' is accurate but a few decent scores in there.

No Big Joe. Hope he's not injured. Light on centres and back three players too.

Strong 15 regardless.

WTF is going on with Robbie Henshaw? Hasn't been on any injury reports but has been virtually invisible so far this season. We could badly do with him here.

Not a good situation to have both Byrnes on the bench here.

For all the gnashing of teeth that's gone on about Munster's injury list it looks like Leinster's side is at least as scratched together in certain position groups if not moreso.

We've got a centre playing on the wing, two out halves on the bench and arguably our fourth and fifth choice hookers in the match squad (one of whom is an Academy player).

In terms of missing guys who would have been likely to be involved here Munster are missing probably Abrahams, Daly, Edogbo (I guess), POM, Billy Burns and Oli Jager?

Leinster missing Dan Sheehan, Ronan Kelleher, Joe McCarthy, Robbie Henshaw, Jimmy O'Brien & Jordan Larmour.

I don't see it as a 14 point game with those teams. We're one injury in the backs away from a fairly big rejig.

It's not that strange really. The majority of Leinster's outside backs are either injured or just finishing up with the Emerging Ireland squad. There's a few year one or year two academy backs I'm sure, but it's far too early for them.

There's some positional flexibility with the starting backs. So we won't be in a situation where Ross Byrne is asked to play at 11 or 14. If there's an in game injury to a wing or fullback we have all of Ringrose, Osborne, Frawley or JGP who could do a decent job there.

Yeah I think the final sentence is fair.

On Sean O'Brien - that's not a like for like with Liam Turner. O'Brien played 20 games for Munster last season. He started 14 games and 10 of those were on the wing. He has lots of experience of playing in that position.

Liam Turner is his whole career has started 3 games on the wing total.

Saying Harry & Ross are both internationals is kind of irrelevant too to them being on the bench here. I don't necessarily have an issue with either one being on the bench, but it's the combo of having two of them as part of a 5-3 split that is problematic. Harry has played a bit at centre but has never been convincing there. Ross can't play anywhere else really given his physical limitations.

Refereeing team for Saturday

Referee: Chris Busby

AR 1: Peter Martin  AR 2: Keane Davison

TMO: Mark Patton

We've avoided both Ben Whitehouse and Frank Murphy so already the game of rugby is on to a winner

I know, I was there that day, and he actually didn't do terribly, but I think he's actually deteriorated athletically since then even. It's a massive indictment of James Hume that he couldn't do more damage against him that day, as it was a relatively straightforward bonus point win for Leinster.

It's hard to see where the gametime is going to come from for Arenzana-King if they won't even back him to bench in this situation. How is he going to improve as a player unless he sees some URC action? He probably would have been better off going the 7s route like JOB and Keenan did while he was in years 1 and 2 of the Academy. Unless he's going to get a development deal next year it might be too late for 7s now.

raining in Dublin. Hope it’s dry for the game.

Munster scoring first try would make this allot more intriguing.

Leinster could pull away if they get a few scores ahead early.

Edit: sunny again!

beautiful evening for it, hopefully get a match to, ummm, match.

Best of luck everyone

Got very narrow very easily there - a couple of miss passes off nine to the outside man really compressed us

Clever from Lowe to take that quickly so they couldn't to back for that potential knock on.

Again, getting very narrow in D. Concerning

Munster weren't 10 metres back when Lowe took that quick tap either.

They don't have to be when it's a penalty on the five metre line.

game over unfortunately