Munster vs Glasgow, Fri 23rd Feb, 7pm; Sky Sports Action

thomond2006

Munster:
Simon Zebo; Andrew Conway, Sammy Arnold, Dan Goggin, Alex Wootton; Tyler Bleyendaal, James Hart;
James Cronin, Niall Scannell, Stephen Archer; Jean Kleyn, Billy Holland (C); Dave O’Callaghan, Chris Cloete, Robin Copeland.

Replacements: Rhys Marshall, Dave Kilcoyne, Brian Scott, Gerbrandt Grobler, Jack O’Donoghue, Duncan Williams, Ian Keatley, Calvin Nash.

Glasgow Warriors team to play Munster in the Guinness PRO14, kick-off 7pm. Live on Sky Sports Action.

15. Ruaridh Jackson (132)
14. Lee Jones (72)
13. Sam Johnson (35)
12. Brandon Thomson (9)
11. Ratu Tagive (4)
10. Adam Hastings (6)
9. George Horne (16)

1. Oli Kebble (6)
2. James Malcolm (24)
3. Siua Halanukonuka (11)
4. Kiran McDonald (9)
5. Scott Cummings (32)
6. Rob Harley (177) CAPTAIN
7. Matt Smith (16)
8. Matt Fagerson (20)

Replacements:

16. Grant Stewart (4)
17. Alex Allan (69)
18. Zander Fagerson (62)
19. Lewis Wynne (18)
20. Chris Fusaro (136)
21. Henry Pyrgos (140)
22. Richie Vernon (97)
23. Niko Matawalu (90)

Not available due to injury: Brian Alainu'uese (knee), Adam Ashe (head), Fraser Brown (head), Alex Dunbar (thigh), Callum Gibbins (achilles), Pat MacArthur (shoulder), Leo Sarto (shoulder) and George Turner (knee).

Not available due to international commitments: Jamie Bhatti (Scotland), Jonny Gray (Scotland), Nick Grigg (Scotland), Stuart Hogg (Scotland), Peter Horne (Scotland), Huw Jones (Scotland) Ali Price (Scotland), Finn Russell (Scotland), Tommy Seymour (Scotland) Tim Swinson (Scotland) and Ryan Wilson (Scotland).

James Hart get a rare start at 9. Bleyendaal makes his first start since injury. Andrew Conway also returns from injury to start on the right wing as Darren Sweetnam makes way.

Glasgow are missing an extensive amount of names due to Scotland and injury so this represents an excellent chance for Munster to maintain a safe distance from Cheetahs in 3rd.

leakyboots

Zebo's last game in Cork I think, hopefully he'll put in a big performance, he's been a little off the boil last couple of games

budhabob

Delighted to see Hart get a start, and great to see TB back.

thomond2006

Hart can hopefully make the most of this opportunity.

thomond2006

Go Munster!

Kind regards,

Leinster STH

budhabob

Pretty frantic start, alot of silly mistakes

thomond2006

Wasshappinin

budhabob

14 mins gone, 3-0 to munster. Munster the better team, but alot of errors.

budhabob

Cloete is a great player, but hes a bit of a knack aswell, always into any handbags and always at little bits off the ball. I like a bit of niggle, but it's stupid stuff from him alot of the time.

budhabob

For all the pressure munster should have come away with something. Blatant by cloete.

DDC1990

budhabob wrote: »

Cloete is a great player, but hes a bit of a knack aswell, always into any handbags and always at little bits off the ball. I like a bit of niggle, but it's stupid stuff from him alot of the time.

Makes amends there though.

Lightning quick to the breakdown.

budhabob

Munster well on top ..... If they can convert chances no reason it won't be a BP win. (If).

budhabob

Scannell if for what looks the first try off a strong maul!

Edit: 10-0 to munster, 25 mins in.

Jack Kanoff

That was a clear grounding.

budhabob

What a kick by TB!

budhabob

Some last ditch tackles by munster, very lucky to not concede the try. Strong tackle by wooton.

budhabob

Scannell (I think) went down hard and not getting back up

budhabob

Strong defense from Munster after alot of Glasgow pressure.

Scannell seems to be back on his feet anyway thankfully, he's been looking sharp

DDC1990

Love Cloete

ScrubsfanChris

Probably should be 7 points more ahead but it's looking good. Keeping Glasgow to 0 is big too.

Jack Kanoff

Dougie still looking like he could give a full second half,

DDC1990

****ing hell giving up 40m+ on every linebreak.

Bad one for Cloete there.

budhabob

Good man Cronin!

DDC1990

Great response after Glasgows try and losing Cloete.

DDC1990

Brilliant passage of play there. Excellent from Arnold and Copeland

Jack Kanoff

Monster tackle from Arnold... stopped Glasgow in their tracks and to win that penalty.

DDC1990

TB been a disaster for giving away posession.

Cost us some excellent field position.

Jack Kanoff

DDC1990 wrote: »

TB been a disaster for giving away posession.

Cost us some excellent field position.

He's been quite good first start back... making tackles and stealing ball too ... Hart having a good game too...he's trying things and his kicking from hand is very good tonight.

Jack Kanoff

Marshall has some boot on him

DDC1990

Stupid from Klyne!

Akrasia

Great result from this game. Fair play to Copeland.

thomond2006

Good result. Jawb.

thomond2006

Hopefully that's not serious for Cloete.

sioda

Looked like arm or wrist and you'd have to think heavy hit or break. Could be season if serious if say. When's TOD back?

Jack Kanoff

sioda wrote: »

Looked like arm or wrist and you'd have to think heavy hit or break. Could be season if serious if say. When's TOD back?

He's back in training, saw some pics on Munster site...not sure if he's doing contact though.

Cookiemunster

Jack Kanoff wrote: »

He's back in training, saw some pics on Munster site...not sure if he's doing contact though.

Himself and JJ were the extra players last night, so I reckon he's good to go.

phog

Curates egg of a performance from us, lots of good stuff but far too much poor stuff too. Glasgow imploded but we never really punished them, we left them off the hook far too often, either but knocking on, kicking away possession or giving away a penalty.

The biggest negative from the game was the loss of Cloete, he's gone for the season.