Saracens vs Munster 3PM

Sherifu

Try Saracens, pure breakaway try. Damn.

7-0 5 mins gone.

Sherifu

20 minutes gone; 7-3

Munster having to defend and soak up the pressure. Massive hits from Tipoki and Howlett.

Sherifu

Try O'Gara, 7-8 25 mins.

Good game, good work from POC.

Confusion over conversion...

Sherifu

Try Quinlann. Dowling & Howlett layed the groundwork. 7-15 HT

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Conversion by Donncha O'Callaghan?

Timothy Bryce

I'm abroad - does anyone have a link showing the match online?

Sherifu

Cadence Immense Fish wrote: »

Conversion by Donncha O'Callaghan?

The ref went to the video ref for it...

Sherifu

Tipoki binned. Peno Saracens.

13-15

Stev_o

Munster are looking shaky here

Sherifu

Lloyd binned for Saracens. Punches.

allin-king

Anyone else find the sky commentary obscenely biased towards Saracens?

Stev_o

Johnson gone for professional foul. Munster may count the gods if this conjours up more then 3 points in the next 10 minutes

Sherifu

allin-king wrote: »

Anyone else find the sky commentary obscenely biased towards Saracens?

Yep. Lol @ Johnston. 13-18

Stev_o

allin-king wrote: »

Anyone else find the sky commentary obscenely biased towards Saracens?

Dont know they seem to playing most of the rugby this half

Sherifu

Stev_o wrote: »

Dont know they seem to playing most of the rugby this half

Perhaps + I think they're backing the underdog.

Stev_o

Sherifu wrote: »

Perhaps + I think they're backing the underdog.

I think they are more puppys at this stage with only 13 vs 15 tbh

Stev_o

Jackson gets this then the it ll be some 8 minutes of rugby i tell ya that

Edit: And he does

toomevara

O'leary is murdering us, been appalling all game...his kicking game is horrendous and some of his decision making has been crass in the extreme. I'd get Stringer on to steady the ship for the final 10..

Stev_o

toomevara wrote: »

O'leary is murdering us, been appalling all game...his kicking game is horrendous and some of his decision making has been crass in the extreme. I'd get Stringer on to steady the ship for the final 10..

Yar so much for the hopes of some people saying he ll be Irelands back up 9 he's useless under the spotlight

Stev_o

Question: If by full time we get a draw what way are they basing it more tries scored or first try scored? I think it might be the latter but not sure

toomevara

Stev_o wrote: »

Yar so much for the hopes of some people saying he ll be Irelands back up 9 he's useless under the spotlight

Fully agree, completely wilted under the pressure

Sherifu

Not a great game from him alright. Big pressure.

darkman2

Munster are throwing this away...

Sherifu

Needed that knock on... 5 mins to hold out.

steelbar

Where have munster gone? they have been asleep for the last 20 mins,.Really hope they hold on, it will be a tense 5 mins,

And How is quinlan still on the pitch, should of been binned 3 r 4 times

toomevara

Also the officiating has been apalling (in respect of both sides) not good enough for a HC semi...the game has been reduced to farce for the last 15 minutes...

And what genius provided those pointless bleedin' posts? For chrissakes, they're worse than useless. Not good enough ERC...

steelbar

am as for their kicking, have missed way too many touches...

Sherifu

Game, set & match.

Stev_o

Now here comes two minutes of Munster wasting time

Stev_o

Stev_o wrote: »

Now here comes two minutes of Munster wasting time

Scratch that now it ll be two tense minutes

steelbar

too close for comfort, will need to improve for the final

Sherifu

Done & dusted.

Stev_o

Hold up surely thats a ruck called as there is more then 2 players at the contact area surely Munster hadnt a right to compete for that

darkman2

What does the Sky commentator think now:pac:

RuggieBear

lot of harsh calls at the end.

toomevara

Appaling performance from Munster, cluless and braindead...got out of jail free. Stringer can shine his boots...freakin' O'leary a shambles....Sheer force of will got 'em through that...think I've aged a few years watching that one...Toulouse won't be worried (which may be a good thing...)

Stev_o

The final really doesnt seem that great from a neutrals perspective now with those two performances by the finalists

jayteecork

Worst refereing performance I've seen in absolutely ages.

That thing with the scrum was an absolute farce. The team gets two props sent off and the other team can't use the advantage? WTF? Those uncontested scrums were a joke.

Munster were the best team and it would have been really cruel if they lost at the end but Saracens played well.

Looks like Gaffney is jinxed going out in semifinals

Appaling performance from Munster, cluless and braindead...got out of jail free.

Wouldn't go that far. Thought a lot of the Munster players had big game. O'Connel, Quinlan, Mafi, Tipoki, Dougie.

RuggieBear

Stev_o wrote: »

The final really doesnt seem that great from a neutrals perspective now with those two performances by the finalists

well i reckon they both won't play as badly again. Besides the contrast in styles might make it a classic...as long as Toulouse have enough players fit.

steelbar

And as for POC talking about the teams "D"
Has he moved to American football???

Sherifu

There have been enough calls gone against Munster in past years imo. No harm they got a bit of luck.

Stev_o

jayteecork wrote: »

Worst refereing performance I've seen in absolutely ages.

That thing with the scrum was an absolute farce. The team gets two props sent off and the other team can't use the advantage? WTF? Those uncontested scrums were a joke.

Munster were the best team and it would have been really cruel if they lost at the end but Saracens played well.

Looks like Gaffney is jinxed going out in semifinals

Because you need 3 qualified front row players not considering two were in the bin and only one sub prop could be brought on you HAVE to by law go uncontested scrums unless of course you want someone to fairly easily get paralysed or even worse die because their team was "forced" to put any old person at prop.

But yeah reffing again was awful again Nigel Owens has a nightmare at the breakdown situation and resembled alot of his performance in the Leinster Edinburgh match.

If they had lost it in the end they would have deserved it as they were awful for 40 minutes un typical Munster

jayteecork

Well it doesn't seem right that you're better off having two props sent off than one.

They should look into giving a free kick or penalty if that situation arose again

Stev_o

jayteecork wrote: »

Well it doesn't seem right that you're better off having two props sent off than one.

They should look into giving a free kick or penalty if that situation arose again

Im confused now the rules state that you have to remove a player from the field if he is carded even if that means there are no props. Look the rule has been there for years and its good otherwise rugby would be a negative light towards the safety of it

toomevara

jayteecork wrote: »

Wouldn't go that far. Thought a lot of the Munster players had big game. O'Connel, Quinlan, Mafi, Tipoki, Dougie.

Agree, lots of fine individual performances, all those above can take a bow...thats what won us the game..but tactically we were very naive (a better word might be thick). We had no control whatsoever at half back...

O'Leary kept handing Sarries gilt-edged attacking opportunites with his dull kicking and some of his decision making was extremely poor...constantly isolating himself and getting trapped at the end of the ruck...

O'Gara didn't run the game well at all, failed completely to stamp any authority on it...I couldn't see any discernible gameplan at all...

Chucky the tree

What the **** was Leamy thinkinh at the end with the stamp? Completelty stupid. TOL was ****e, ROG was poor aswell I thought.

RuggieBear

curious why he wasn't carded for the blatant stamp,not that it would have made any difference

jayteecork

Yeah the Sarries players really wound up Leamy.

Gaffney probably told them he had a very short fuse.

themont85

I thought Munster were terrible today. Yes O'Leary was poor but O'Gara was very of his game also. Leamy can be such a tool on the rugby pitch at times, such a stupid penalty. And what happened to the 'two best centres in the competition', good in defence but spurned a couple of great attacking chances. Maybe there was a touch of complacency there in the tactics. POC, Quinlan and Horan were good in fairness though. Should be a cracking final though, Munster can't be like that again.

Why was there so many empty seats at the game. Was the fact that it wasn't in the south of France kill the 'Red Army's will to go to the game:p Seriously though I thought it was sold out, anyone know why there was so many seats empty?

jayteecork

I wondered about that too. Apparently you could buy tickets that day in the stadium for 22 pounds. On a Munster semi final? WTF?

Surely a sign of the economy perhaps?

Stev_o

themont85 wrote: »

I thought Munster were terrible today. Yes O'Leary was poor but O'Gara was very of his game also. Leamy can be such a tool on the rugby pitch at times, such a stupid penalty. And what happened to the 'two best centres in the competition', good in defence but spurned a couple of great attacking chances. Maybe there was a touch of complacency there in the tactics. POC, Quinlan and Horan were good in fairness though. Should be a cracking final though, Munster can't be like that again.

Why was there so many empty seats at the game. Was the fact that it wasn't in the south of France kill the 'Red Army's will to go to the game:p Seriously though I thought it was sold out, anyone know why there was so many seats empty?

Was never sold out EVER tickets were available at the place itself i also heard of train problems with UK based supporters travelling from London