The I'll Start a Munster Thread Before ... Thread

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Does that put Warriors in behind Saracens as the English club with most Heineken/Champions Cup winners on its playing staff?

[SerjeantWildgoose]

GWAN Bubbles! Get 'em up there.

Up Tipp!

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Jaysus, but the backs did their best to make a game of that.

[paddy no 11]

Yeah, tipp backs won't be good enough for Cork/Galway

Mon Waterford beat these yellow bellies

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Can't see the Déise tripping up today and after yesterday's showing I'd say they're the only side standing between a Galway vs Cork day out in September.

Tipp need to find another half a dozen Maher boys if they're to plug those holes at the back.

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Waterford with their noses ahead at the half and not giving Cork any space at all. Contrast between the way Clare stood off and the Déise making them struggle is simple but critical.

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Game turned on the 2nd yellow and a 2-goal blitz job. 5-point gap with 10 to go. Looks like we're in for the first meeting of The Tribesmen and The Déise in a Liam.

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Great work by Waterford. They worked their way around the Cork sweeper and then made the most of the man advantage to blatter them. Got to feel sorry for the young Gleeson lad; moment of idiocy when the game was won costs him the chance to play in the final.

[kk67]

Strings signs for Worcester Warriors for 6 months to cover for Francois Hougaard whilst on International duty

the tripod is a ligind!

He is. His testimonial/retirement dinners will be a right laugh. I saw some photos of a dinner for Serge Betsen a few years ago, interesting mix of players were there and much fun was clearly occurring. Maybe it was Charvis's dinner and Serge was there..?. Anyway...Strings was also attending. Tom Rees as well.

[hellovating]

1. Cronin, Killer, Scott
2. Casey, Marshall, O'Byrne, Scannell, Sherry
3. Archer, Ryan, Parker
4. Grobler, Kleyn
5. Holland, DOS, Wycherley
6. DOC, POM, Coombes
7. TOD, Oliver
8. Copeland, JOD, Stander
9. Hart, Murray, Williams
10. Tyler, JJ, Johnston, Keatley
11. Earls, ROM, Nash
12. Arnold, Scannell, Goggin
13. Farrell, Johnston, Taute
14. Conway, Sweetnam, Wootton
15. Fitzgerald, Zebo

Castes away
Racing home
leicester home
leicester away

[hellovating]

Munster: Stephen Fitzgerald, Darren Sweetnam, Chris Farrell, Jaco Taute, Alex Wootton; Tyler Bleyendaal, Duncan Williams; Liam O’Connor, Rhys Marshall, Stephen Archer; Jean Kleyn, Gerbrandt Grobler; Billy Holland, Tommy O’Donnell, Jack O’Donoghue.

Replacements from: Mike Sherry, Brian Scott, James Rochford, Sean O’Connor, Ronan Coffey, Gavin Coombes, Sean McCarthy, James Hart, Ian Keatley, Dan Goggin, Ciaran Parker, David Johnston.

Worcester Warriors v Munster Rugby, Thursday August 24th at Sixways Stadium – ko 7.30pm.

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Where's JJ? Are they still weaning him off the pie habit he picked up in Northampton?

It'll be good to see how Farrell and Grobler go.

And where the feck have you been all summer?

[hellovating]

Where's JJ? Are they still weaning him off the pie habit he picked up in Northampton?

It'll be good to see how Farrell and Grobler go.

And where the feck have you been all summer?

I think JJ picked up a minor knock in pre season.

I've been running around after little people....

[hellovating]

Still think we're light a solid tighthead. Relying on John Ryan to stay fit or this Clarke lad to be decent.

Most interested in seeing how Chris Farrell goes.

I left Chris Cloete out if my squad list too. I think he'll push TOD out of the team. He won't arrive for a month though.

[SerjeantWildgoose]

I've been running around after little people....

Children or fairies?

[hellovating]

I've been running around after little people....

Children or fairies?

the former.

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Great to see Mike Sherry getting a bit of a leg stretch last night.

[mcshinnertheligind]

Is this the home for geriatric old feckers or am I lost again.....

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Of course this is the right place. You were here yesterday and every day for the 3 or 4 months before that. STM is clearly failing.

[BBD]

Up his medication

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Not sure how much we can really draw by way of conclusions after two pretty thumping wins to start the season. Treviso were as feeble as expected but at least gave us something to think about in terms of defence. Cheetahs were abysmal and while I recognise all of the reasons why this might have been so and the probability that they and the Kings will eventually turn up with a full deck, what the feck do they think they are on sending out a bunch of lads that frankly performed like a school XV.

You can, of course only play what's in front of you, but we'll find out next week in Swansea whether the performances of the likes of Andy, Alex, Jean and Jack (the stand-outs so far for me) were flattered by the frailties of the opposition. Can't believe that I am seeing the negatives in a whoppingly positive start to the season.

And good luck to Dan in getting on the road to a full recovery.

[hellovating]

Feel like our season will depend on the fitness of Kleyn. Without him, our second row looks weak/callow.

[hellovating]

Ospreys: 15 Dan Evans, 14 Keelan Giles, 13 Cory Allen, 12 James Hook, 11 Jeff Hassler, 10 Sam Davies, 9 Tom Habberfield, 8 Dan Baker, 7 Justin Tipuric (c), 6 James King, 5 Lloyd Ashley, 4 Bradley Davies, 3 Ma’afu Fia, 2 Sam Parry, 1 Paul James
Replacements: 16 Scott Baldwin, 17 Nicky Smith, 18 Rhodri Jones, 19 Adam Beard, 20 Dan Lydiate, 21 Matthew Aubrey, 22 Dan Biggar, 23 Kieron Fonotia

Munster: 15 Andrew Conway, 14 Darren Sweetnam, 13 Chris Farrell, 12 Jaco Taute, 11 Alex Wootton, 10 Tyler Bleyendaal (c), 9 Duncan Williams, 8 Jack O’Donoghue, 7 Tommy O’Donnell, 6 Sean O’Connor, 5 Billy Holland, 4 Jean Kleyn, 3 Stephen Archer, 2 Rhys Marshall, 1 Liam O’Connor
Replacements: 16 Niall Scannell, 17 James Cronin, 18 John Ryan, 19 Fineen Wycherley, 20 Robin Copeland, 21 James Hart, 22 Rory Scannell, 23 Simon Zebo

Date: Saturday, September 16
Venue: Liberty Stadium, Swansea
Kick-off: 15:15 local (14:15 GMT)
Referee: Stuart Berry (South Africa)
Assistant referees: Dan Jones (Wales), Adam Jones (Wales)
TMO: Tim Hayes (Wales)

[hellovating]

jean kleyn man of the match again. we made tough work putting away a poor ospreys side. their a side in serious decline.

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Just watched the recording of the game. Lots of good stuff in the first half and I think it was less to do with Ospreys being poor than Munster being pretty good / with the obvious exception of Tyler's kicking from the tee.

2nd half the wheels fell off the lineout and Tyler started to add a few woefully poor kicks from hand to his poor place kicking. I think Ospreys showed some positives but they don't seem to have the stomach for the grunt and it is difficult to see where their turnaround is going to come from.

We won't get past Glasgow next weekend leaving 8 points on the tee.