Cardiff Blues vs Munster, Sat 2nd November 7:35pm, TG4/Eir

thomond2006

Cardiff:
Matthew Morgan; Jason Harries, Rey Lee-Lo, Garyn Smith, Aled Summerhill; Jarrod Evans, Lloyd Williams (capt);
Corey Domachowski, Liam Belcher, Scott Andrews, Josh Turnbull, Rory Thornton, Shane Lewis-Hughes, Olly Robinson, Will Boyde.

Replacements: Kirby Myhill, Brad Thyer, Keiron Assiratti, Seb Davies, Nick Williams, Lewis Jones, Jason Tovey, Willis Halaholo.

Munster:
Shane Daly; Calvin Nash, Sammy Arnold, Dan Goggin, Alex Wootton; JJ Hanrahan, Alby Mathewson;
Jeremy Loughman, Kevin O’Byrne, Keynan Knox; Fineen Wycherley, Darren O’Shea; Jack O’Donoghue (C), Chris Cloete, Arno Botha.

Replacements: Diarmuid Barron, Liam O’Connor, Stephen Archer, Jed Holloway, Conor Oliver, Nick McCarthy, Tyler Bleyendaal, Rory Scannell.

Conference A clash as Cardiff host Munster at the Arms Park. Cardiff have started the season poorly and will need points quite urgently to catch-up with the top 4 sides in the table.

Shane Daly starts in an unfamiliar position in Munster colours at fullback. After being installed as Munster's third choice tighthead prop for Europe, Keynan Knox gets a start. JJ Hanrahan is selected over Bleyendaal with Joey Carbery's availability for the next few games up in the air.

Henry Ford III

Enlightening

yerrahbah

Knox, Wooton and Arnold make their first starts of the season, with Oliver due to make his first appearance of the season off the bench

Feels very much like a "B" team to me, I've gone from pretty confident of a win to a lot less so looking at that team.

Cardiff side

https://twitter.com/cardiff_blues/status/1190240987836289025

Lee-Lo and and Halaholo always seem to play well against Munster

Jump_In_Jack

Daly starting at fullback and Knox being the starting tighthead are the big surprises.
Looking forward to seeing how they go.

Also, Barron and Oliver to come off the bench, interested to see if they can put their hand up for selection going forward.

budhabob

that's a fairly mobile team!

thomond2006

Jump_In_Jack wrote: »

Daly starting at fullback and Knox being the starting tighthead are the big surprises.
Looking forward to seeing how they go.

Also, Barron and Oliver to come off the bench, interested to see if they can put their hand up for selection going forward.

It's a contract year for Oliver, he'll need to make the most of any opportunities.

Henry Ford III

Seems like a fairly light weight team to me.

I'll watch from behind the couch.

thomond2006

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Seems like a fairly light weight team to me.

I'll watch from behind the couch.

Definitely. Munster were -4 pre-lineups, now they're +2.

Jump_In_Jack

thomond2006 wrote: »

It's a contract year for Oliver, he'll need to make the most of any opportunities.

Yeah, I think he should be pushing past Cloete this season, and with Hodnett coming up from the academy and TOD still around he’ll need to be very impressive to have any chance of staying at Munster next season.

shootermacg

Please JJ..... have a good game.

ScrubsfanChris

Are Eir's commentary team still in the toilets? :pac:

ScrubsfanChris

Serious wind, JJ knows this and puts in THAT kick...

shootermacg

Cloete you gem!

shootermacg

Tackler never released. I've a feeling this ref will be killing us.

Akrasia

Botha is like a different player this year

shootermacg

Jack is making a habit of that

shootermacg

Get in!

ScrubsfanChris

Great team try that

shootermacg

Mathewson keeping them honest.

ScrubsfanChris

Am I dreaming or are we seeing some creative Munster attacking?

Akrasia

Excellent play from Kevin O Byrne

Akrasia

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Am I dreaming or are we seeing some creative Munster attacking?

This season their attacking has been noticably better.

Sometimes I'm accused of bwing over optimistic but we're definitely going to win the Heineken Cup this year

ScrubsfanChris

Three times now Paddy Wallace has called a player the wrong name (twice for Munster)
Impressive he's collecting a pay cheque for this.

shootermacg

Second poor kick, no brains behind it.

shootermacg

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Three times now Paddy Wallace has called a player the wrong name (twice for Munster)
Impressive he's collecting a pay cheque for this.

Shur they're all wearing the same thing!

shootermacg

It's idiotic ****e like turning over the ball for free with a minute on the clock that drives me nuts.

ScrubsfanChris

Poor end to the half.
All they had to do was hold onto the ball for 40 seconds, instead kick it away for 10 metres territory.

yerrahbah

Not a bad half.

Alby giving away a penalty at an attacking 5m scrum and giving Cardiff back the ball with 20 seconds left on the clock very frustrating.

Nice variation in attack and the wind seems a big factor. Could get a win here

razorblunt

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Three times now Paddy Wallace has called a player the wrong name (twice for Munster)
Impressive he's collecting a pay cheque for this.

He sounds so bored too. A plethora of ex pros out there and they pick absolute dross.

eigrod

Wind seems to have eased a bit 2nd half judging by the kicks so far

ScrubsfanChris

Poor play at the end of the 1st half has led into the 2nd

budhabob

Good try made by JJ and good support by KOB

ScrubsfanChris

That's more like it!

PetKing

Munster attacking space, it's refreshing.

shootermacg

Well done Mathewson, kept the tempo high there.

yerrahbah

Nice work from JJ and Arnold there

KOB is so good in the loose

Ref was looking at and shouting at the Cardiff player for about 10 seconds in the lead up to that before playing advantage

razorblunt

Pass from Morgan on the wing was forward.

shootermacg

Whew.

razorblunt

Well done ref. TMO must have been bored off his face up there.

eigrod

Well done ref

sioda

Well done ref

DDC1990

TMO would want a word with himself. The Cardiff player was more culpable there lowering the head into the tackle.
Good referee ignoring it.

Now they did miss the no arms tackle from Arnold a phase or 2 after I think.

ScrubsfanChris

Wind seems to be blowing across the pitch now rather than form one end to another

shootermacg

WTF? Is JJ trying to kill birds with his kicks? Terrible kicking, just terrible!

ScrubsfanChris

shootermacg wrote: »

WTF? Is JJ trying to kill birds with his kicks? Terrible kicking, just terrible!

Wind at his back and couldn't kick it 20m down field

razorblunt

Lovely little line from Nash.

shootermacg

:rolleyes::D:cool:

yerrahbah

Nice break from Scannell,

Nice delay on the pass from Alby and line from Nash

ScrubsfanChris

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Wind at his back and couldn't kick it 20m down field

Sure who needs to when you can score from 45m out :pac:

ionadnapóca

Smashing try
Fair play JJ. Nice break and pass

yerrahbah

All started from a Conor Oliver turnover