Pro12: Cardiff vs Munster, Fri 23 Sep 7:05pm; Live on RTÉ2/BBC2Wales

thomond2006

Nagle Back In Munster Squad
20 September 2011, 1:18 pm
By The Editor

Munster travel to Cardiff City Stadium on Friday evening for round 4 of the RaboDirect PRO12 where they take on Cardiff Blues at 7.05pm.

Training in their respective centres today, the squad will assemble in Cork tomorrow for their final session before departing from Shannon on Thursday afternoon.

As expected both Danny Barnes and Ian Nagle have been included in the Munster squad.

The matchday 23 will be named at noon on Thursday.

Munster Squad:
J Murphy, S Deasy, D Howlett, S Zebo, D Hurley,
T Gleeson, D Barnes, L Mafi,
I Keatley,
D Williams, P Stringer,

M Horan, S Archer, BJ Botha, W du Preez, J Hayes,
D Fogarty, M Sherry,
D Foley, I Nagle, M O'Driscoll, B Holland,
P O'Mahony, N Ronan, J Coughlan, T O'Donnell.

http://www.munsterrugby.ie/news/9429.php

I'd like to see:
du Preez, Sherry, Botha, Foley, Micko, O'Mahony, O'Donnell, Coughlan;
Williams, Keatley, Zebo, Mafi, Barnes, Howlett, Murphy

Bench: Fogarty, Horan, Hayes, Nagle, Ronan, Stringer, Deasy, Hurley

Foley looked good last week so he should get another run. 20-30 minutes for Nagle off the bench.

TOD made a decent impact off the bench and should get a start. That said Ronan has been playing well at 7, Pro12 is his level.
I'd like to see Williams get a start too.

This is will be a tricky game, Cardiff will be no pushover on their home turf.

budhabob

Munster: J Murphy; D Howlett, D Barnes, L Mafi, D Hurley; I Keatley, D Williams; W du Preez, M Sherry, S Archer; B Holland, M O'Driscoll; P O'Mahony capt, T O'Donnell, J Coughlan. Replacements: D Fogarty, J Ryan, J Hayes, D Foley, N Ronan, P Stringer, S Deasy, T Gleeson.


http://www.munsterrugby.ie/news/9434.php

I'm happy to TOD, Archer, Barnes and Williams start. Bit disappointing for Gleeson, he seems to do fine when he plays but never gets a chance to string a few games together.

CatFromHue

So it looks like Johne Murphy will the full back until Jones comes back.

thomond2006

Cardiff Blues:
15 Dan Fish, 14 Alex Cuthbert, 13 Gavin Evans, 12 Dafydd Hewitt, 11 Richard Mustoe, 10 Ceri Sweeney, 9 Richie Rees,
8 Andries Pretorius, 7 Maama Molitika, 6 Michael Paterson, 5 Deiniol Jones, 4 Paul Tito (C), 3 Scott Andrews, 2 T Rhys Thomas, 1 Sam Hobbs.

Replacements: 16 Rhys Williams, 17 Nathan Trevett, 18 Ryan Harford, 19 Xavier Rush, 20 Thomas Young, 21 Lewis Jones, 22 Rhys Patchell, 23 Casey Laulala.

Not available due to injury
Ben Blair - knee
John Yapp - calf
Gareth Williams - neck
Kristian Dacey - shoulder
Gareth Davies - hamstring
Chris Czekaj - shoulder
Martyn Williams - shoulder
Tom James - calf

Unavailable because of RWC

Wales
Gethin Jenkins, Bradley Davies , Sam Warburton, Lloyd Williams, Jamie Roberts and Leigh Halfpenny

Tonga
Fau Filise

Scotland
Dan Parks

Looking forward to this, Laulala just on the bench is a boost for us.

Hopefully John Ryan will get some gametime off the bench for Munster. Munster to win by a score IMO.

phog

budhabob wrote: »

Munster: J Murphy; D Howlett, D Barnes, L Mafi, D Hurley; I Keatley, D Williams; W du Preez, M Sherry, S Archer; B Holland, M O'Driscoll; P O'Mahony capt, T O'Donnell, J Coughlan. Replacements: D Fogarty, J Ryan, J Hayes, D Foley, N Ronan, P Stringer, S Deasy, T Gleeson.

Botha out from the original squad, I suppose that's to keep a spot for Hayes and Ryan in to subs bench.

This will be a big test for us but with Cardiff having som many injuries they may there for the taking or is that wishful thinking.

PhatPiggins

phog wrote: »

Botha out from the original squad, I suppose that's to keep a spot for Hayes and Ryan in to subs bench.

This will be a big test for us but with Cardiff having som many injuries they may there for the taking or is that wishful thinking.

I'd be more inclined to say he's injured yet again. If he's fit he starts and Hayes is on the bench.

This will be a good litmus test of where we're at, 3 good wins so far but against fairly average opposition. Think we'll win by 2 scores.

Like what McGahan is doing with the selections this year, he's creating plenty of competition amongst the players and you can see the hunger in the subs when they come on.

thomond2006

PhatPiggins wrote: »

Like what McGahan is doing with the selections this year, he's creating plenty of competition amongst the players and you can see the hunger in the subs when they come on.

+1.

Anyone know why Zebo isn't in the 22? That said, I thought Gleeson was decent last week.

Fireball07

thomond2006 wrote: »

+1.

Anyone know why Zebo isn't in the 22? That said, I thought Gleeson was decent last week.

I think if Zebo is fit, he should start. Hurley is decent enough but I think Zebo has much more potential and should be given a chance to start regularly now. I mean...Hurley's never going to challenge for a place in the Irish team, there is a possibility Zebo might if he gets to a certain standard and gametime will help.

Good to see TOD and Archer start too.

PhatPiggins

thomond2006 wrote: »

+1.

Anyone know why Zebo isn't in the 22? That said, I thought Gleeson was decent last week.

Probably because its a 5/3 split on the bench and Zebo can only play wing (afaik)

CIARAN_BOYLE

PhatPiggins wrote: »

Probably because its a 5/3 split on the bench and Zebo can only play wing (afaik)

True but I'd rate Zebo ahead of Hurley and would personally start Zebo.

GerM

PhatPiggins wrote: »

Probably because its a 5/3 split on the bench and Zebo can only play wing (afaik)

Not for Munster at this stage but I know he has played centre for Con on several occasions at both inside and outside.

PhatPiggins

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

True but I'd rate Zebo ahead of Hurley and would personally start Zebo.

Absolutely agree but you can guess what type of game we're going to play.
A back line of J Murphy; D Howlett, D Barnes, L Mafi, D Hurley, I Keatley, D Williams = physical

I think he's spot on, you don't want to play fast and lose against Cardiff hence no room for the more delect flowers like Stringer,Gleeson and Zebo

durkadurka

Bump. Nice to be watching a live game at a daycent hour of the day.

thomond2006

G'wan Munster!

thomond2006

That was dumb from Coughlan. That should have been kicked 50m.

CIARAN_BOYLE

very good kick from Keatley there

thomond2006

Pen from near halfway from Keatley.

0-3

thomond2006

Kickable penalty given away but that was great defence by Munster for 20+ phases, Cardiff were recycling and recycling but went nowhere.

thomond2006

Let off again, 2nd poor miss from Sweeney.

Mister Dread

Should have been a penalty for Munster for jumping the tackle.

Fireball07

thomond2006 wrote: »

Let off again, 2nd poor miss from Sweeney.

That was awful.

CIARAN_BOYLE

thomond2006 wrote: »

Kickable penalty given away but that was great defence by Munster for 20+ phases, Cardiff were recycling and recycling but went nowhere.

Can you really call it great defense if you don't manage to force a turnover despite having 20+ chances. Yeah I know I'm stirring.

Munster are pretty lucky that Sweeney doesn't have his kicking boots on

Fireball07

Try?

CIARAN_BOYLE

I wouldn't like to be a TMO over in Cardiff today

EDIT no try

durkadurka

I'm sure that was a try

thomond2006

Fantastic tackle from Hurley, no try.

CIARAN_BOYLE

TMO is busy tonight. I don't think this is a try

edit just short Cardiff scrum

Fireball07

Good last gasp stops from Munster but a bit sloppy so far.

thomond2006

Dunno how we're still ahead, we've barely had the ball or territory.

Fireball07

3-3, a score has been coming. Relatively lucky, I suppose.

But we haven't been in the game.

thomond2006

Great scrum. Chance for Keatley.

Tefral

nice kick! Munster 6-3 Cardiff

budhabob

Great scrum. Keatley adds 3points with a great kick.6-3 to munSter.

CIARAN_BOYLE

The Munster Scrum and a Keatley penalty brings the score to 6-3

rebel girl 15

Good scrum that led to that penalty 6-3 Munster, Keatley strokes over the penalty, difficult angle

Fireball07

That was a lovely kick, and it was going straight over the minute he kicked it.

budhabob

Hurley putting in some big kicks and looking good on the wing.

Fireball07

I dunno about the ref tbh... doesn't seem to be very clear.

rebel girl 15

Ref got a thump of a ball there for his troubles!!

GerM

Cardiff doing themselves no favours mouthing at the referee. Although the penalty reversal was harsh I thought. That wasn't a stamp at all, it was just a bit of decent rucking a player on the wrong side. Thomas should have been more careful though and can't complain.

Coughlan off, big loss for Munster. Have massive amount of time for Coughlan.

rebel girl 15

Coughlan off, Ronan on

shoutman

Any streams for this? Outside of Ireland so cant watch rte player

seanin4711

boy do we need him now in the sportsground, if we had a place kicker against the gunners we could be 3 from 3!

rebel girl 15

9-3 now, Keatley penalty

thomond2006

3rd boomer from Keatley. Very encouraging stuff.

3-9

Otacon

Keatley is getting better and better. Long may it continue.

rebel girl 15

Great kick again from Keatley!!

Tefral

Keatley is playing great

thomond2006

****ing hell, magnificent kick.

Keatley 12 - 0 Cardiff

Fireball07

That was a monster kick. Wonderful stuff.

penalties win these games almost every time.

Keatley kicking beautifully.