Munster vs Edinburgh, Friday 8pm, Setanta IRL

thomond2006

Munster:
D Hurley; D Howlett, L Mafi, J de Villiers, I Dowling; P Warwick, P Stringer; M Horan, D Fogarty, T Buckley; D Ryan, M O'Driscoll capt; A Quinlan, N Ronan, J Coughlan

Replacements: M Sherry, J Brugnaut, B Holland, T O'Donnell, D Williams, S Deasy, T Gleeson.

Edinburgh:
15 Ben Cairns
14 Mark Robertson
13 Nick De Luca
12 John Houston
11 Tim Visser
10 David Blair
9 Greig Laidlaw (captain)
1 Kyle Traynor
2 Andrew Kelly
3 Geoff Cross
4 Jim Hamilton
5 Scott MacLeod
6 Alan MacDonald
7 Roddy Grant
8 David Callam

Substitutes: Ryan Grant, Allan Jacobsen, Craig Hamilton, Fraser McKenzie, Mike Blair, Rory Hutton*, Simon Webster.

Damian Varley is not included because of injury.

Munster look the stronger, particularly at halfback. Edinbugh look severely depleted with the internationals away.

Munster by 10-15.

Riskymove

thomond2006 wrote: »

Munster look the stronger, particularly at halfback. Edinbugh look severely depleted with the internationals away.

yeah, I'd agree with that

Jbone07

Riskymove wrote: »

yeah, I'd agree with that

Agreed, good to see Strings get in on the act again.

phog

Edinburgh has the stronger bench but I still think it will be a Munster win.

Looking forward to the game.

Trotter

Would there be tickets on sale for this one at the stadium?

hefty_langer

Not likely to be any on the gate, you can get em here though, the ticket exchange
https://teamexchange.ticketmastereurope.com/html/eventlist.htmI?l=EN&team=munstrrugby

anonymous_joe

Awful Embra side

murphym7

Looking forward to another boozy Friday night in Musgrave park - just hope the wife doesn't keep moaning about standing again!

Munster look the stronger side alright and would be surprised with a loss. This could be the night JDV romps in with a hat trick. I love Warwick at 10 - what a great footballer.

Tim Visser to score a try is a good bet,that lad is a serious unit who can motor.

Ian_K

Worst Edinburgh team i've ever seen... Munster to destroy them

Ciaran-Irl

Anyone know why Mike Blair is on the bench?

anonymous_joe

Ciaran-Irl wrote: »

Anyone know why Mike Blair is on the bench?

Is he actually first choice anymore?

Ian_K

Ian_K wrote: »

Worst Edinburgh team i've ever seen... Munster to destroy them

Lol, Toomevara slying in with a grammar edit!

Jemmy

Whats the score?

toomevara

Deleted User wrote: »

Lol, Toomevara slying in with a grammar edit!

I vill haf word-order!!!....sorry, cant help it, It's the former TEFL teacher in me...

accensi0n

Jemmy wrote: »

Whats the score?

0 : 0

jd007

3-0 to Edinburgh drop goal

12 mins gone

jd007

Donncha Ryan gone off now with shoulder/arm injury. Doesn't look too good

Warwick gone off now too

ScrubsfanChris

Donnacha Ryan gone off, Paul Warrick aswell.
Not a great start.

No place kicker on the pitch now for Munster.

Micky Dolenz

Rocky start from Munster

ScrubsfanChris

Update to injury list, Niall Ronan who went "off for blood" might not be coming back on.

Still 0-3 to Edin.

jd007

Try Munster

conversion missed, 5-3 Munster

ScrubsfanChris

Try Munster, 5-3 with 17 minutes left in half.

ScrubsfanChris

Penalty Edin, 5-6 now.

ScrubsfanChris

Deasy is killing us, is there seriously not a better place kicker on the pitch? Two easy kicks he's missed now.

Edit: He just slotted a 3 pointer, hope he can prove me wrong .

thomond2006

Good hussle Deasy.

8 - 6 to Munster.

thomond2006

Just started watching before Deasy's penalty, did Warwick and Ryan's injuries look serious?

ScrubsfanChris

Fogarty you f-ing clown, knocks it one 3 metres from the line.

8-9 to Edin at half time.

thomond2006

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Fogarty you f-ing clown, knocks it one 3 metres from the line.

That was an opportunity missed.

ScrubsfanChris

thomond2006 wrote: »

Just started watching before Deasy's penalty, did Warwick and Ryan's injuries look serious?

Warrick got a knock to the leg or something early on, stayed on limping for a few minutes but eventually came off.
Ryan got a cut on his forehead I think, it was blood sub at first but he never came back on even though at one stage it looked like he was ready to come back on.
No news yet on how serious either injury is.

thomond2006

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/live_scores/4776533.stm#]

Looks like Glasgow are suffering from the internationals' absence, 30-0 down to Cardiff at home (at time of post). :eek:

Judgement Day

Not sure about injuries - missed first 25 mins - but Stringers passing very refreshing after TOL's recent performances.

Jigga

Denis Fogerty is absolutely shocking, one of the worst hookers playing at such a high level.

thomond2006

The lineout is appalling.

castie

For the love of jesus get someone else to kick....

Jigga

Is Jeremy Manning injured? deasy is terrible

dubal

Never been a huge Stringer fan, but the speed of pass relative to TOL is light years better.

Dubal

thomond2006

Good kick from Deasy, poor lad has had it tough tonight.

Judgement Day

Deasy scores!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

castie

All is forgiven!!!!

yeraulone

great try!

thomond2006

Great try from Deasy, nice break and chip over the FB.

Shame about the conversion.

Stringer's excellent passes hugely influential for the try, he's putting his hand up for Twickenham.

Aidric

Deasy deserved that bounce with his break and chip. Good try.

duckysauce

dubal wrote: »

Never been a huge Stringer fan, but the speed of pass relative to TOL is light years better.

Dubal

what about the rest of his game?

CoDy1

That is stringers game. Stringer best skill was always his passing and he has had a great game tonight imo.

castie

silly mafi

Jigga

castie wrote: »

silly mafi

What did he do? he gets sin binned an awful lot

thomond2006

Great turnover by Munster on their line.

thomond2006

Jigga wrote: »

What did he do? he gets sin binned an awful lot

tackle without the ball on a supporting player, definite yellow.

Judgement Day

19-12 Stringer Man of the Match - so much for him being finished!

ScrubsfanChris

Judgement Day wrote: »

Not sure about injuries - missed first 25 mins - but Stringers passing very refreshing after TOL's recent performances.

Agree, he really fired those passes out, and got MOM aswell.