Munster vs Newport Gwent Dragons, Rodney Parade, Sat 5.30 K.O.

thomond2006

Teams have been named:

Dragons: 15 Jason Tovey, 14 Kevin Morgan, 13 Rory Sidey, 12 Ashley Smith, 11 Martyn Thomas, 10 James Arlidge, 9 Wayne Evans, 8 Grant Webb, 7 Richard Parks, 6 Bearman Joe, 5 Andrew Hall, 4 Sean Tomes, 3 Rhys Thomas, 2 Tom Willis (c), 1 Hall Nigel.

Replacements: 16 Steve Jones, 17 Gethin Robinson, 18 Lewis Evans, 19 Danny Lydiate, 20 Phillip Dollman, 21 Gareth Maule, 22 Robert Lewis.

Munster: 15 Denis Hurley, 14 Kieran Lewis, 13 Keith Earls, 12 Lifeimi Mafi, 11 Ciaran O'Boyle, 10 Paul Warwick, 9 Peter Stringer, 8 Nick Williams, 7 Denis Leamy, 6 Alan Quinlan, 5 Donnacha Ryan, 4 Mick O'Driscoll (c), 3 Tony Buckley, 2 Denis Fogarty, 1 Darragh Hurley.

Replacements: 16 Michael Essex, 17 Timmy Ryan, 18 Billy Holland, 19 Niall Ronan, 20 Duncan Williams, 21 Jeremy Manning, 22 Anthony Horgan.


Interesting to see Doug Howlett missing from squad. Great to see Darragh Hurley is getting his opportunity.
However, Denis Leamy at 7? It would surely make more sense to have Quinny at openside where he has played before and have Leamy at his preferred no 6??

Jason Tovey (15) scored a hat trick of tries against Ulster, so he looks the danger man, but apart from that, I can only see a comfortable Munster win, hopefully with a BP.

Match on S4C and Sellotanta Sports.

Go'on Munster!!!!!!!!!!!! :D:D:D

chupacabra

I'll be watching on S4C, thank god for the red button . Tovey looks good with ball in hand alright definatley the man to watch for the dreigau. Looking for a performance from Earls, he hasnt me convinced just yet. Definite win for the boys BP.. not too sure.

ITS Y CLWB RYGBI TIME

Micky Dolenz

Is there any stream about?

Roanmore

Lively game so far, lot of penalties (won't be surprised if there is a sin binning before HT) and a great try from Munster (O'Boyle).

yeraulone

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Is there any stream about?

its not great but...

http://www.justin.tv/sm3ggy10

chupacabra

baaaad miss from Warick right at the end, score remains 13 - 6

juvenal

Score? I presume it's halftime.

Micky Dolenz

yeraulone wrote: »

its not great but...

http://www.justin.tv/sm3ggy10

Whats the craic with the tunes?

Micky Dolenz

Good man, Strings

11811

another nice Try for Munster!

20-9

Fun watching this in Welsh!

11811

FT - Munster Win 20 - 9
Think man of the match went to Driscoll (not 100% as my Welsh isnt great)

Judgement Day

yeraulone wrote: »

its not great but...

http://www.justin.tv/sm3ggy10

Great link - thanks. Shame about the idiots in the chatroom! Where do they get them! Good result too not that the Magners League matters.

Aidric

11811 wrote: »

FT - Munster Win 20 - 9
Think man of the match went to Driscoll (not 100% as my Welsh isnt great)

Good result. Leinster and Munster in a dogfight for the title.

thomond2006

Judgement Day wrote: »

Great link - thanks. Shame about the idiots in the chatroom! Where do they get them! Good result too not that the Magners League matters.

No, I think it does matter this season.

thomond2006

11811 wrote: »

FT - Munster Win 20 - 9
Think man of the match went to Driscoll (not 100% as my Welsh isnt great)

You could have got English commentary with the red button you know.

bleg

****ing hell fogarty has to sort out his lineout throwing, there were at least 10 crooked throw ins tonight.

very poor game overall, handling errors and penalties by both teams so it seemed to go from set piece to set piece. all the same a win is a win is a win and o boyle's try was class. happy to be still top and with our destiny well and truely in our own hands.

ScholesyIsGod

We made it hard for ourselves but it was a good win all the same, thought Strings had a fine game passed well and two great try saving tackles, good performance from Warwick too he did very well anytime he was under pressure and made a couple of good half breaks to get himself out of trouble. Fogartys throwing was really poor but he had a good game in the loose, thought Hurleys sin bin was a bit harsh he looked to have come in through the gate cleanly i thought, Quinlans binning was a complete joke there was no need for him to make that tackle completely stupid but thats typical Quinny. As for Nick Williams he's turning out to be a real disappointment.

11811

thomond2006 wrote: »

You could have got English commentary with the red button you know.

Yeah I know, but I don't have sky unfortunately

louthandproud

ScholesyIsGod wrote: »

thought Strings had a fine game passed well and two great try saving tackles,

+1`Stringer's tackles were crucial, not hand trips either.

Micky Dolenz

Strings is really in flying form, a real testiment of his character.

We did make a right hard night of it though.

CJhaughey

thomond2006 wrote: »

You could have got English commentary with the red button you know.

You were better off with the welsh commentary, the two biased buffoons that were doing the commentating were terrible, one of them didn't even know that the ref was Irish.

omerin

CJhaughey wrote: »

You were better off with the welsh commentary, the two biased buffoons that were doing the commentating were terrible, one of them didn't even know that the ref was Irish.

he did, he was being sarcastic

louthandproud

CJhaughey wrote: »

You were better off with the welsh commentary, the two biased buffoons that were doing the commentating were terrible, one of them didn't even know that the ref was Irish.

omerin wrote: »

he did, he was being sarcastic

They were quite amusing I thought! The Welsh'd probably find Len Dineen as amuzing too if they wre to listen in to a 95FM commentary!

SomeFool

ScholesyIsGod wrote: »

As for Nick Williams he's turning out to be a real disappointment.

Have to agree with you here, anyone remember Tim McGann, bringing overseas backrow players into Munster is like throwing apples into an orchard.

Micky Dolenz

louthandproud wrote: »

They were quite amusing I thought! The Welsh'd probably find Len Dineen as amuzing too if they wre to listen in to a 95FM commentary!

Len Dineeen the legend, knows all the Munster players but thats about it.

"A Welsh man with the ball, plays it back to another Welsh man" etc

Smooth Len, Smooth

ScholesyIsGod

SomeFool wrote: »

Have to agree with you here, anyone remember Tim McGann, bringing overseas backrow players into Munster is like throwing apples into an orchard.

Well there was a certain Jim Williams he wasnt half bad