Munster v Leinster 26/12/14 tg4

total former

It's all been said in the build up thread. Let's just focus on the game here.

Ref is Nigel Owens

Munster: 15 Felix Jones (captain), 14 Andrew Conway, 13 Pat Howard, 12 Denis Hurley, 11 Ronan O'Mahony, 10 Ian Keatley, 9 Duncan Williams, 1 John Ryan, 2 Duncan Casey, 3 Stephen Archer, 4 Donncha O'Callaghan, 5 Billy Holland, 6 CJ Stander, 7 Tommy O'Donnell, 8 Robin Copeland.

Replacements: 16 Kevin O'Byrne, 17 Eusebio Guinazu, 18 BJ Botha, 19 Dave O'Callaghan, 20 Paddy Butler, 21 Neil Cronin, 22 JJ Hanrahan, 23 Johne Murphy.

Leinster: 15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Darragh Fanning, 13 Luke Fitzgerald, 12 Gordon D'Arcy, 11 Dave Kearney, 10 Ian Madigan, 9 Isaac Boss, 1 Michael Bent, 2 Richardt Strauss, 3 Tadhg Furlong, 4 Mike McCarthy, 5 Kane Douglas, 6 Dominic Ryan, 7 Shane Jennings (captain), 8 Jack Conan.

Replacements: 16 Aaron Dundon, 17 Maks Van Dyk, 18 Jamie Hagan, 19 Tom Denton, 20 Jordi Murphy, 21 Luke McGrath, 22 Jimmy Gopperth, 23 Noel Reid.

I'd say Munster to edge it but lbp for Leinster.

Paddy Power says Munster are four point favourites.

phog

Hugely disappointed with the restricted teams but as always when it comes to Munster, I want a win. I think Leinster have a few key players, Darcy, Kirchner, Fitz to name a few but I hope we can do enough to slow down their ball and do enough to get an early lead for ourselves and get the crowd behind us.

It's been raining all day so the field and ball will like a bar of soap whiuch will lead to lots of scrums, so we'll probably see a very start/stop sort of game.

Gwan Munster

Tox56

If this was in Dublin with those teams Leinster should take this all day long, but home advantage is massive in these types of games. Still Munster have lost 3 in TP already this season so there should be no psychological hang ups from Leinster, they should be going out there expecting to win.

Just typical that Madigan finally plays at 10 and the weather is apparently filthy, it should properly test him though

thomond2006

I'm thankful D'Arcy is ahead of Reid. Reid has been one of Leinster's best players in any match I've seen this season and I think it's a howler not to start him against a plodder type 12. I think Hurley will be able to contain D'Arcy.

twinytwo

is tg4 the only channel showing this?

thomond2006

twinytwo wrote: »

is tg4 the only channel showing this?

BBC Alba as well. I'm not sure if the commentary will be in Scots Gaelic or English.

thomond2006

The weather is rotten at the moment. I doubt this will be a classic!

thomond2006

Noel Reid is out. He is replaced by Collie O'Shea. His last appearance was for Leinster was 9 minutes against the Ospreys last April.

molloyjh

thomond2006 wrote: »

Noel Reid is out. He is replaced by Collie O'Shea. His last appearance was for Leinster was 9 minutes against the Ospreys last April.

So COS to get a max of 1 minute then.

thomond2006

molloyjh wrote: »

So COS to get a max of 1 minute then.

#JusticeforLoteTuqiri

ssaye2

Hopefully all the players feed Off jennings leadership, take a lbp and no injuries now, Reid just took Ill not serious it seems

suppafly

Anyone got a link for good radio commentary? Just heard they are going to be doing the commentary in scots gaelic on bbc iplayer. For anyone watching it on your TV they said english commentary is available through the red button. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to switch to that online in bbc iplayer though


edit: nvm, found it on live 95 fm. unfortunately the tv feed is about 5 seconds behind
http://www.live95fm.ie/News-Sport/Sport

Taco Corp

No beats headphones in sight during the coin toss

total former

thomond2006 wrote: »

Noel Reid is out. He is replaced by Collie O'Shea. His last appearance was for Leinster was 9 minutes against the Ospreys last April.

He's had massive injury problems since then but he's a good player. Reid is still a big loss.

its_phil

Nigel Owens reffing this, lucky b*******!

connemara man

Anyone else watching on tg4 with terrible signal?

Zzippy

connemara man wrote: »

Anyone else watching on tg4 with terrible signal?

It's fine on my tv...

errlloyd

connemara man wrote: »

Anyone else watching on tg4 with terrible signal?

My sound is crackling but my picture is perfect!

Taco Corp

Even enough first 7 mins. Munster prob shading the high balls

connemara man

Zzippy wrote: »

It's fine on my tv...

Crap the signal to the depths of Connemara is weak I've only seen 2 minutes of play keeps skipping and jumping. A bad connection

errlloyd

What a kick, breakdown before it was an absolute war though.

Mahatma Geansai

Fanning being exposed so far.

.ak

Fanning being badly exposed. Positioning is his weak point

Fat Max

.ak wrote: »

Fanning being badly exposed. Positioning is his weak point

Everything is his weak point....

.ak

Fair play to DOC

Zzippy

connemara man wrote: »

Crap the signal to the depths of Connemara is weak I've only seen 2 minutes of play keeps skipping and jumping. A bad connection

You'd think being closer to the transmitter your signal would be fine!

Larbre34

Balls...

molloyjh

Munsters clever kicking game showing up Leinsters terrible one. Leinster get 3 line-outs in 3 minutes and lose both territory and possession as a result. They also seem to be winning the collisions. Need some possession lads.

Hope Ryan is ok.

vienne86

Could do without that early injury. Ominous.

Molester Stallone II

CJ Savior strikes again

LuckyGent88

Nicely worked try

molloyjh

And there's the result of handing the ball over at every opportunity to the opposition.

Bridge93

Defence really isn't good enough

vienne86

Try. Could be a long evening.

errlloyd

I mentioned a while ago that stander always loses his shirt. Definitely an advantage.

Fat Max

That try should NOT stand. He wasn't wearing his shirt.

Spudmonkey

Christ have we any kickers?

Micky Dolenz

Highly entertaining so far. The breakdown is hell for leather.

CountyHurler

Fat Max wrote: »

That try should NOT stand. He wasn't wearing his shirt.

It's a bit odd alright.. All the supposed protocols they have in place now, and still a lad is allowed to play and score a try with a different jersey to his team... Could they not have just borrowed one from a big lad in the crowd, or why did he not have a shirt in the first place?

Bridge93

Boss is a disaster

molloyjh

Leinster with ball in hand going nowhere. So we kick. And now Munster are several metres from our line. This is painful.

LuckyGent88

Ah that was a pity. Very nice break from keatley.

errlloyd

Keatley just jogged around whichever front rower ended up there.

vienne86

Ah FFS defence woeful from leinster

Bridge93

Any positivity from last week quickly evaporated. Dreadful stuff.

molloyjh

vienne86 wrote: »

Ah FFS defence woeful from leinster

Defense!? Luke Fitz makes a great break into the Munster half and how do we capitalise? We run down blind alleys and end up back in our own half. All that came from a totally inept attacking structure.

Larbre34

Better. Leinster need to get calm and get clever

errlloyd

Smart play from dk and Fitz

Bridge93

Darragh Fanning should never play for a Leinster again

Taco Corp

Bridge93 wrote: »

Darragh Fanning should never play for a Leinster again

The pass was never on but that's OTT

Fanning very poor. Boss not going well either.