Cheetahs vs Munster, Sun 4th Nov 2:45pm Irish time, Eir Sports

thomond2006

Cheetahs:

1 Ox Nche (29)
2 Joseph Dweba (8)
3 Aranos Coetzee (29)
4 Walt Steenkamp (7)
5 JP du Preez (7)
6 Gerhard Olivier (7)
7 Junior Pokamela (18)
8 Aidon Davis (3)
9 Shaun Venter (23) - Captain
10 Tian Schoeman (7)
11 Rabz Maxwane (15)
12 Nico Lee (20)
13 Benhard Janse van Rensburg (7)
14 William Small-Smith (22)
15 Rhyno Smith (1)

16 Reinach Venter (1)
17 Charles Marais (27)
18 Erich de Jager (4)
19 Sinthu Manjezi (1) / Justin Basson (18)
20 Daniel Maartens (4)
21 Abongile Nonkontwana (2)
22 Tian Meyer (22)
23 Louis Fouche (4)

•Guinness PRO14 caps indicated next the player’s name.

The following players are not eligible for team selection due to injury: Quintin Vorster (ankle), Ntokosa Vidima (wrist), Dries Swanepoel (shoulder), Oupa Mohoje (knee), Luan de Bruin (ankle), Jasper Wiese (shoulder), Lloyd Greeff (ankle), Sibabalo Qoma (ankle), Ryno Eksteen (knee), Jacques Du Toit (knee), Malcolm Jaer (hand), Neill Jordaan (nose).

Munster:

Mike Haley; Shane Daly, Sammy Arnold, Tyler Bleyendaal (C), Alex Wootton; Bill Johnston, Alby Mathewson;
James Cronin, Kevin O’Byrne, Stephen Archer; Jean Kleyn, Darren O’Shea; Fineen Wycherley, Chris Cloete, Arno Botha.

Replacements: Mike Sherry, Jeremy Loughman, John Ryan, Sean O’Connor, Gavin Coombes, Duncan Williams, Ian Keatley, Rory Scannell.

Other squad members: Ciaran Parker, Neil Cronin, JJ Hanrahan, Liam Coombes

The referee for the match is Marius Mitrea (FIR, 83rd competition game). He will be assisted by Joy Cwengile Jadewenzi (SARU) and Ruhan Meiring (SARU). The TMO is Shaun Veldsman (SARU).

The Cheetahs will be looking for their second win of the campaign after a comfortable home win against Cardiff. After a huge come from behind win against Glasgow, Munster will be looking to maintain pressure on the Conference A leaders.

Bill Johnston gets a baptism of fire at ten with the returning Tyler Bleyendaal starting at inside centre. A glut of unavailable players in the backrow forces Fineen Wycherley to move to the blindside flank.

Tyler at 12 - he must be completely recovered if they are playing him at centre.

leakyboots

Exciting team, Wootton is a guy who is seriously knocking on the door of the first team. Very interested to see how Bill Johnston gets on

Sabre0001

leakyboots wrote: »

Exciting team, Wootton is a guy who is seriously knocking on the door of the first team. Very interested to see how Bill Johnston gets on

Some defensive frailties holding him back, but very exciting in attack - looked particularly good with Carbery getting the ball to him.

Also looking forward to seeing how Johnston goes. Hopefully the pack can provide a solid platform, and there are some exciting options outside him. Good that he starts with Mathewson too.

Will be interesting to see how Tyler gets on in the centre; as said above, he better be fully fit!

leakyboots

leakyboots wrote: »

Exciting team, Wootton is a guy who is seriously knocking on the door of the first team. Very interested to see how Bill Johnston gets on

Is Wootton not leaving at the end of the season?

Henry Ford III

Good to see Ox and Rhyno both playing.

Some Yoke

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Good to see Ox and Rhyno both playing.

Cheetahs didn't have enough players so they got an ox and rhino on the team, which can only be good for safari diplomacy

thomond2006

25c approx in Bloemfontein today!

yerrahbah

https://twitter.com/Munsterrugby/status/1059069498341421056

Late change sees Arnold out, Daly to centre and Liam Coombes to the wing.

Arnold failed RTPP.

thomond2006

yerrahbah wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Munsterrugby/status/1059069498341421056

Late change sees Arnold out, Daly to centre and Liam Coombes to the wing.

Arnold failed RTPP.

There's quite a bit of inexperience out there now with Johnston, Daly and Coombes all starting.

budhabob

Monster tackle by DOS. Great positioning and timing.

Former Former

Those jerseys, jeeesus

yerrahbah

big let off there...

budhabob

Johnson looks very confident so far. Finding great field position and not afraid to change point of attack

Mookie Blaylock

Former Former wrote: »

Those jerseys, jeeesus

Munster ones are fab

Mookie Blaylock

Bill's kicking is top notch so far today.

yerrahbah

Johnston taking the penalties ahead of TB. Poor penalty given away from Cloete. Cheetahs spill 5m out and Johnston clears. Muster have a scrum 5m out now.

thomond2006

Good decision by Mathewson.

yerrahbah

Wheels on Wooton

Mookie Blaylock

Arno Botha is a hard man to put down

thomond2006

Cloete needs a word. He's been ill disciplined all game.

2smiggy

Cheetahs look good at home. Great running rugby

stephen_n

Munsters continuing poor discipline costing them. For all the lip service Flannery paid to it, clearly the coaching staff and the squad have no interest in fixing it.

bloodless_coup

He was hardly supporting his own weight there

thomond2006

Nasty head knock.

CZ 453

Anyone hearing that whistling bell noise from the game? Very annoying.

thomond2006

CZ 453 wrote: »

Anyone hearing that whistling bell noise from the game? Very annoying.

Me too. It's grating.

baas baa

I wonder if a player ended up needing to be stretchered off after taking an opponent out in the air would the ref follow through with issuing a red card.

Technically that Cheetahs try should've been a penalty to Munster for joining the maul ahead of the carrier. Similar to Irelands disallowed try in Cardiff last year.

yerrahbah

Maul is doing damage. Try Kevin O'"Brien" Great kick Johnston

2smiggy

thomond2006 wrote: »

Me too. It's grating.

Well they did give us the vuvuzela

thomond2006

What a good first half. Johnston and Bleyendaal are a solid combination.

budhabob

CZ 453 wrote: »

Anyone hearing that whistling bell noise from the game? Very annoying.

I was wandering about the house listening to all the electrical appliances before I copped it was the telly

2smiggy

baas baa wrote: »

I wonder if a player ended up needing to be stretchered off after taking an opponent out in the air would the ref follow through with issuing a red card.

Technically that Cheetahs try should've been a penalty to Munster for joining the maul ahead of the carrier. Similar to Irelands disallowed try in Cardiff last year.

Well the ref asked 3 or so times was there any foul play from munster. When he seen it was his own fault, and possible pen to munster he started laughing for some reason

2smiggy

baas baa wrote: »

I wonder if a player ended up needing to be stretchered off after taking an opponent out in the air would the ref follow through with issuing a red card.

Technically that Cheetahs try should've been a penalty to Munster for joining the maul ahead of the carrier. Similar to Irelands disallowed try in Cardiff last year.

Well the ref asked 3 or so times was there any foul play from munster. When he seen it was his own fault, and possible pen to munster he started laughing for some reason

Mookie Blaylock

Cavanaghs of Charleville ...choon!!

razorblunt

As difficult as it was to see Cloete's card, finally good to see a referee refusing to allow a team to have carte blanche for repeated infringements when playing penalty advantage to the opposition.

The Saffer commentary are a breath of fresh air too, know all the players names, no bias just calling it as they see it.

yerrahbah

Bill Johnston what a pass.

Subpopulus

Great pass from Johnson for that try. Very impressed with him today.

thomond2006

Excellent stuff. 34 minutes to get a fourth try.

budhabob

Subpopulus wrote: »

Great pass from Johnson for that try. Very impressed with him today.

He looks very comfortable. Smart play by him, good boot, hope he gets plenty of gametime this season

yerrahbah

Munster looking tired out there

thomond2006

Loughman you absolute hero!

budhabob

Munster throwing this away. Lost structures since replacements have come on

razorblunt

Awful from Munsteer, the subs have dropped the intensity completely.

The backs are doing absolutely nothing, all the passes are miles away from contact letting the defence drift across, Cheetahs have 3 different defenders out on the wing there.

thomond2006

Ah heor.

Bridge93

South Africans just love overthrowing lineouts

Mookie Blaylock

Plenty of time to win this, just let the subs settle in

thomond2006

I really rate this Kevin O'Brien lad.

budhabob

Haley has really found his feet the past 2 weeks, looks a decent signing.

Good response from munster

yerrahbah

Keatley...

budhabob

thomond2006 wrote: »

I really rate this Kevin O'Brien lad.

Can't see O'Byrne getting back into the team at this rate. O'Brien has the better beard too 😁