Munster A vs Ulster A

chupacabra

28 minutes gone here in a very cold thomond park. Duncan Williams with a sweet break to dot down for munsters second try. First one scored by manning after a very poor Ulster mistake. We're getting creamed in the scrum.

Its 10 - 3 to munster

chupacabra

Sucessful penalty kick by Cusack makes it 13 - 3

Chris Cochrane for ulster is looking pretty sharp. McAllister is a beast in the scrum.

chupacabra

Superb break from maning, side steps 2 players and goes over untouched. Sublime.

20 - 3 to munster

chupacabra

Try by..... I dunno too far away. It was from a maul anyway. Think it was Sherry. Converted by cusack.

27 - 3 to munster

chupacabra

Full timescore 27 - 03 to munster. Into the final now.

budhabob

Since this game had a better result think i'll post here first.twas a very good display by the Munster back row!thought manning's second try was excellent,poor defending though by ulster.

phog

Great result and the future for Munster looks bright. Thought Manning had a good game depsite being played out of position and Cusack seems to have benefited from his ML game against Connacht.

thomond2006

Managed to see the second half, Ulster looked very poor.

Manning scored a cracking try.

chupacabra

thomond2006 wrote: »

Managed to see the second half, Ulster looked very poor.

Manning scored a cracking try.

He did indeed. His first try was the result of an ulster player scrambling back and kicking the ball very hurriedly into the arms of Manning on the wing, pretty comical error really.

In general i thought Ulster were very poor but their scrum was always on top. McAllister and Brady worked very well as a unit and Ryan and Archer looked under serious pressure in the opening half. However Ryan did make some good carries all throughout before he was subbed and Dave Kilcoyne came in the shore up the scrum a bit.

Our line out was pretty good with Nagle and Foley managing to steal some Ulster ball and i thought O'Mahony had a storming game regardless of his yellow card. Really should have scored a try in the second half tho deciding to try to side step the full back and slipped on the wet ground. Williams also had a really good game, this lad will definitely be the understudy to TOL either next season or the one after. His passing was sharp and he had some success sniping around the fringes. Cusack looked strong going forward and seemed to make the most yards out of anyone else on the pitch. Kicked well too. But Mannings second try was easily the highlight of the day.
I was pretty dissapointed not to see Butler get on as i reckon this lad is a cert for Munster in the future and maybe even Ireland.

All in all a good day out for the young lads, there should be a video of the highlights available soon on the Official Munster video site.

Amazotheamazing

chupacabra wrote: »

He did indeed. His first try was the result of an ulster player scrambling back and kicking the ball very hurriedly into the arms of Manning on the wing, pretty comical error really.

In general i thought Ulster were very poor but their scrum was always on top. McAllister and Brady worked very well as a unit and Ryan and Archer looked under serious pressure in the opening half. However Ryan did make some good carries all throughout before he was subbed and Dave Kilcoyne came in the shore up the scrum a bit.

Our line out was pretty good with Nagle and Foley managing to steal some Ulster ball and i thought O'Mahony had a storming game regardless of his yellow card. Really should have scored a try in the second half tho deciding to try to side step the full back and slipped on the wet ground. Williams also had a really good game, this lad will definitely be the understudy to TOL either next season or the one after. His passing was sharp and he had some success sniping around the fringes. Cusack looked strong going forward and seemed to make the most yards out of anyone else on the pitch. Kicked well too. But Mannings second try was easily the highlight of the day.
I was pretty dissapointed not to see Butler get on as i reckon this lad is a cert for Munster in the future and maybe even Ireland.

All in all a good day out for the young lads, there should be a video of the highlights available soon on the Official Munster video site.

Butler game on for Grace in the 58th minute, according to munsterrugby.ie.

Anyhow, another great win.