Munster Clearout

GreenDoor

What do you think of the player clearout in munster? Is it good or bad? I think it's good to get rid of the deadwood and give youth it's chance and maybe bring in 1 or 2 top class foreigners.

Teg Veece

Wouldn't really call it a clear out. All 15 players who started the final will still be there next season along with the majority of the squad.

I'm glad that Hogan and Keogh got to move to Leinster as they were going to waste warming the munster bench, if even, for a lot of the season. Although I have absolutely no idea why the opted to bring in Chris Wyatt as a replacement.

I'll reserve my judgement as to whether the preseason squad redecoration was good or bad after I see the final list of who Munster signed.

Any chance of Kearney/Lewis heading south?

Crash

F off, they're ours

daveirl

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toomevara

GreenDoor wrote:

What do you think of the player clearout in munster? Is it good or bad? I think it's good to get rid of the deadwood and give youth it's chance and maybe bring in 1 or 2 top class foreigners.

Not a clearout, more natural wastage......

toomevara

Teg Veece wrote:

Any chance of Kearney/Lewis heading south?

Reckon we (Munster) should kidnap/abduct/bribe/borrow kearney...whatever it takes, he's wasted at leinster, sorry crash, but hey it is what it is...plus with my ireland hat on, it's all good.......

Amazotheamazing

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Any player that would rather sit on a bench than get top level rugby isn't good enough for Munster anyway. I'm glad Keogh and Hogan decided to go for it, pity Lewis lacks their ambition, or does he really think he'll get ahead of O'Driscoll, D'Arcy, Horgan, Kearney, Dempsey, not to mention they talents like FitzGerald and Armetiev (?) coming through.

RuggieBear

i wouldn't say lack of ambition....like it or lump it most Dubliners don't really want to leave Dublin to go to a regional town.

Just look at the amount of people from Dublin who go to the regional universities compared to the number of people from outside Dublin who are willing to go anywhere.

I think it is a cultural thing within the Leinster rugby playing schools.

In my class, only one person didn't go to college (he became a mechanic) and every other person went to uni/college in Dublin.

daveirl

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Diamondmaker

If I was a young back I would probably want to stay and work with Cheika getting experience with Drico et all rather than go to Munster. maybe not the best career choice re game time but you can see the appeal.
It is also ESSENTIAL for Leinster to have this quality cover on the bench...it is part of having a complete squad with cover in all positioins which is required.
Shame we have not this option up front.

toomevara

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"To hell or dublin"...gimme hell....indeed. I know of at least one relatively recent Leinster squad member from beyond the pale who had a very difficult time adjusting not only to the barbarous, outre and generally appaling behaviour of it's denizens but found the old school tie network in Leinster rugby very difficult to surmount....I know i'm hopelessly myopic and biased on the subject but my first reaction when I hear of any Munster man relocating to Dublin or its environs is one of pity......

GreenDoor

RuggieBear wrote:

i wouldn't say lack of ambition....

Of course it is. He's putting his personal life ahead of his sporting career. I was shocked to see he's 26 years old because up to last season I hadn't heard of him. He's a top class player who could easily play international but he won't be getting too many caps which is a shame. I can see Kearneys point of view because he's young but he wouldn't want to make the same mistake as Lewis.

cruiserweight

Plus Kearney is still a student in UCD, so he has another good reason to stay in Dublin! It won't be long before he is a fixture in teh Leinster team!

daveirl

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