Munster vs Scarlets, Friday 24th Feb 7:35pm, TG4

thomond2006

Munster:
Jaco Taute; Darren Sweetnam, Francis Saili, Dan Goggin, Ronan O'Mahony; Tyler Bleyendaal Capt., Duncan Williams;
Dave Kilcoyne, Rhys Marshall, Stephen Archer; Dave Foley, Billy Holland; Dave O'Callaghan, Tommy O'Donnell, Conor Oliver.

Replacements: Kevin O'Byrne, Peter McCabe, Brian Scott, Darren O'Shea, Fineen Wycherley, Abrie Griesel, Ian Keatley, Andrew Conway.

Scarlets team to take on Munster at Thomond Park, Friday 24th February, kick-off 7.35pm;

15 Johnny Mcnicholl, 14 DTH van der Merwe, 13 Steff Hughes, 12 Hadleigh Parkes ©, 11 Tom Williams, 10 Dan Jones, 9 Jonathan Evans,
1 Wyn Jones, 2 Ryan Elias, 3 Werner Kruger, 4 Tom Price, 5 Tadhg Beirne, 6 Aaron Shingler, 7 James Davies, 8 Will Boyde

Replacements: Dafydd Hughes, Luke Garrett, Nicky Thomas, Rynier Bernardo, Morgan Allen, Aled Davies, Aled Thomas, Ioan Nicholas

Former Former

Not a bad Scarlets team but Munster will cruise this, a BP win is not unlikely

Henry Ford III

Weather forecast isn't great. Will keep scoreline down probably.

Jump_In_Jack

Van der Merve and Tadhg Beirne are two to watch out for, Munster should be too well stocked though.
Looking forward to seeing what Goggin and Oliver can produce, and a good chance for Conway to score a try off the bench!
Hope Wycherley gets decent amount of time to make an impact.

phog

Officials for tonight are

Munster Rugby v Scarlets – KO 7.35pm

Referee: Dan Jones (WRU – 5th tournament game)
AR1: Simon Rees (WRU) AR2: Jonny Erskine (IRFU)
TMO: Charles Samson (SRU).

Henry Ford III

Passed Stephen Jones "Wellies" out walking earlier. Brave man in his shorts!

wp_rathead

is Jack O'Donoghue injured

budhabob

wp_rathead wrote: »

is Jack O'Donoghue injured

"In making five changes to the side that grinded out the win against Ospreys last weekend this Friday's game comes too soon for Jack O'Donoghue and Rory Scannell.

O'Donoghue (ankle) and Scannell (knee) are expected to make a return to full training at some point next week."

http://www.munsterrugby.ie/rugby/24046.php

kuang1

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Weather forecast isn't great. Will keep scoreline down probably.

The weather forecast for this evening is 20km/h wind with 50% likelihood of rain. (I take that to mean showery/intermittent rain.)
Not the best but not the worst conditions for a game.
Not bad enough to make it a low scoring affair anyway I think.

Bookies have us 8 points better than scarlets. I would have guessed 10/11 so I think we should cover that.

Should be an entertaining encounter between 2 good sides.

shootermacg

Any other channel showing this game?

flazio

Doesn't look like it. S4C isn't showing any rugby and BBC Two Wales is showing Edinburgh v Cardiff.

Subpopulus

Penalty to Scarlets? Though that was just a knock on?

ScrubsfanChris

Edgy start. Nice play between Tuate and ROM but another knock on after that.

budhabob

Fairly error ridden start, good physicality though.

Subpopulus

Pacy, breathless stuff. No-one's able to hold the ball for very long. Scarlets a bit better on that front though.

Subpopulus

That would have been a sublime offload from Sweets had it come off...

DDC1990

Pretty entertaining so far.

Would like to see us get off the mark on the scoreboard soon though.

DDC1990

DDC1990 wrote:

Would like to see us get off the mark on the scoreboard soon though.

Haha there we go.

Beaut of a try. Brilliant.

budhabob

Both our wings have looked very dangerous so far.

Lovely try there, thought DOC2.0 might have made it, good pace from him.

ScrubsfanChris

O'Mahony is looking good tonight. Great offload my Tyler B.

shootermacg

Taute is just too bloody good in any position! What a clever footballer.

Buer

Beautiful offload and DOC2 showed good wheels. Hint of forward off final pass but certainly nothing clear.

2smiggy

Nice quick pass from Saili, not being greedy looking for the try himself

ScrubsfanChris

Annoying offside penalty. Scarlets gone nowhere with the ball so far and the defense has been good.

Lovely passing there from Saili and Blydog. Nice break by 6 also, bit of a step got him away.

Saili having a good game, my MOTM so far, doesn't seem to have been phased by the citing.

Taute took the try well but making up for some early errors.

shootermacg

TB with the laser guided restart ^ ^

LuckyGent88

What a restart!!!

Buer

Scarlets backfield are having a mare.

budhabob

TB my man of the match so far, seems to have so much time on the ball.

budhabob

Buer wrote: »

Scarlets backfield are having a mare.

Dont seem to want to catch any highballs

budhabob

I cant believe my eyes, saili is playing whats in front of him, decent pass, subtle boot....whats happened? Great to see.

Watching the English stream of this and can clearly hear the TG4 commentators in the background! #bestofbothworlds

Subpopulus

That Saili chip - we're playing bits of liquid rugby here...

coco0981

Shingler very lucky not to have got a yellow at last ruck. As deliberate killing the ball as you will see

LuckyGent88

Certainly on the limit of a flat pass anyway. No need for it to be so tight.

Given it.

Losty Dublin

Whatever happened to the old way of the home team changing shirts in the event of a colour clash? Those Llanelli jerseys are gank.

ScrubsfanChris

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

Certainly on the limit of a flat pass anyway. No need for it to be so tight.

Given it.

Taute doesn't help by stopping and running sideways as soon as he passes the pass

Might get away with that but a bit needless from Taute, with the amount of time he spends in centre he should have more control than that on such a critical pass.

coco0981

Lucky to get away with that pass. A lot of refs wouldn't give it

2smiggy

Thought it was a bit forward. Would have not been happy if scored by them! Entertaining game so far

Subpopulus

That was marginally forward for me but I'm happy to take the points.

ScrubsfanChris

Ooohhh that kick......

coco0981

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Watching the English stream of this and can clearly hear the TG4 commentators in the background! #bestofbothworlds

Where is the English stream?

2smiggy

Christ Tyler B is a class act

shootermacg

That defense! Long kick is almost as good as a kick to touch.

LuckyGent88

Not getting much from our maul anyway

shootermacg

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

Not getting much from our maul anyway

To be fair we are giving up some grunt in the back row.

2smiggy

2smiggy wrote: »

Christ Tyler B is a class act

He's passing fairly well and kicking from tee is top notch but his tactical kicking is second rate tbh. Isn't finding touch or space these last few games.

ScrubsfanChris

Scarlets player lying on our side of the ruck and it's their penalty? Poor call.

budhabob

How did the ref miss sweetnams knock on?

LuckyGent88

Pissed through them.