United Colors of Benetton Treviso vs Munster Fri 12th Sept 7pm Irish time (not on TV)

thomond2006

Munster:
Felix Jones - capt, Andrew Conway, Andrew Smith, Ivan Dineen, Simon Zebo; Ian Keatley, Duncan Williams;
James Cronin, Duncan Casey, Stephen Archer; Dave Foley, Billy Holland; CJ Stander, Tommy O'Donnell, Robin Copeland

Replacements: Kevin O'Byrne, John Ryan, BJ Botha, Donncha O'Callaghan, Sean Dougall, Cathal Sheridan, Johnny Holland, Ronan O'Mahony

That's quite a culling from the Edinburgh match. James Cronin returning is a great boost after our scrum troubles last weekend. Still no JJ which is worrying. Denis Hurley's absence again is strange, doesn't really hold up with those email screenshots! At least Dineen gets a deserved start after bringing some impetus in the second half versus Edinburgh.

Williams is lucky to be starting again, that's all I say...

Treviso:
15 Simone Ragusi
14 Ludovico Nitoglia
13 Luca Morisi
12 Sam Christie
11 Michele Campagnaro
10 Joe Carlisle
9 Henry Seniloli
8 Mat Luamanu
7 Tomas Vallejos Cinalli
6 Meyer Swanepoel
5 Corniel Van Zyl (capitano)
4 Marco Fuser
3 Rupert Harden
2 Davide Giazzon
1 Matteo Muccignat

A disposizione:

16 Giovanni Maistri
17 Matteo Zanusso
18 Salesi Manu
19 Marco Lazzaroni
20 Marco Barbini
21 Alberto Sgarbi
22 Angelo Esposito
23 James Ambrosini

Not a lot of big games in that team, since half of them now play for Leicester. Alessandro Zanni is still at Treviso though but he's not selected, I assume he's injured.

former legend

Former Legend

TL;DR

thomond2006

former legend wrote: »

TL;DR

Now you're on the poll. That will show you.

thomond2006

Munster:
Felix Jones - capt, Andrew Conway, Andrew Smith, Ivan Dineen, Simon Zebo; Ian Keatley, Duncan Williams; James Cronin, Duncan Casey, Stephen Archer; Dave Foley, Billy Holland; CJ
Stander, Tommy O'Donnell, Robin Copeland

Replacements: Kevin O'Byrne, John Ryan, BJ Botha, Donncha O'Callaghan, Sean Dougall, Cathal Sheridan, Johnny Holland, Ronan O'Mahony

justsomebloke

edited thread title to put correct date in. It's so hard to find good help these days

CatFromHue

That Munster team wouldn't too much better than the two previous teams that have gone to Treviso and lost.

It'll be interesting!

Buer

CatFromHue wrote: »

That Munster team wouldn't too much better than the two previous teams that have gone to Treviso and lost.

It'll be interesting!

Shame it isn't televised. I'd have to back Munster, in this instance. While their side may not be better than the one that lost previously, the Treviso pack is significantly weaker.

CatFromHue

Yeah Munster will/are favourites. The only reason people would be concerned is that they've lost over there the past two years now.

buck65

And will again I'm afraid, way too many passengers on that team.

Del.Monte

Things are looking up, CJ scored a try on 28 minutes and the score is Treviso 7 Munster 13 at Half Time.

kub

Del.Monte wrote: »

Things are looking up, CJ scored a try on 28 minutes and the score is Treviso 7 Munster 13 at Half Time.

How do you know?

Del.Monte

10-18 to Munster after 63 minutes - a try for Zebo. Live score updates on espn.co.uk

molloyjh

Ultimate Rugby app or Pro12 site I'd imagine.

thomond2006

It's hard to take this win too seriously given the quality and experience Treviso lost over the summer.

Del.Monte

Full-time 10-21 to Munster.

phog

Match report from IT

Fireball07

I wonder was Keatley actually really good or did he just kick his goals? Kickers tend to get praise if they get their kicks (which is obviously important) but it's hard to know how any particular player did from that report.

budhabob

Former Legend

Fireball07 wrote: »

I wonder was Keatley actually really good or did he just kick his goals? Kickers tend to get praise if they get their kicks (which is obviously important) but it's hard to know how any particular player did from that report.

Reading the IT report he seemed heavily involved with a number of good plays outside his kicking. Being completely reliant on reports is no fun.

CatFromHue

The highlights were just up on TG4 there and Big Dunc seemed to be involved in alot of the good things that Munster did, obviously it was a highlights of course.

Lovely Treviso try too.