Munster v Leinster Build Up Thread

KrustyUCC

Leinster will win this easy in the second half

Munster need to play an error free game but unfortunately the little errors are being punished

Leinster far far more dangerous

Buer

Strong finish from Leinster to be back within 4 at the break. Nicely poised but Munster will be kicking themselves for not having pushed this out of reach in the first quarter. Back to back line outs lost well inside Leinster territory is very unlike them.

Similarly, Leinster really blew a sustained period of pressure in the Munster 22, coming away with nothing.

Anyone's game although I feel the biggest influences respectively have been poor execution from Leinster and some silly penalties from Munster.

letowski

I really hope we don’t see Marshall or Cronin after half time. They are both killing Munster.

clsmooth

Festive Life wrote: »

Ref needs to watch James Ryan and all his crawling on ground trying to get extra yards. Blatantly done it 2/3 times already

Clever play. Hasn’t been held.

bennyl10

Good half
Munster will be kicking themselves, handed 6 points to Leinster through silly penalties


Broadcast wise How is Toland allowed to commentate on Leinster game still? He doesn’t even try and hide the bias. It’s incredible

twinytwo

letowski wrote: »

I really hope we don’t see Marshall or Cronin after half time. They are both killing Munster.

Careful what you wish for, scanell will give away just as many stupid penos

Burkie1203

Buer wrote: »

Not a hope it's a card, lads. When has anyone ever got a card for that?

Foot trip. Dangerous play

clsmooth

Larmour has been poor in the air. Haven’t been too impressed by McGrath either.

Clegg

bennyl10 wrote: »

Good half
Munster will be kicking themselves, handed 6 points to Leinster through silly penalties


Broadcast wise How is Toland allowed to commentate on Leinster game still? He doesn’t even try and hide the bias. It’s incredible

Biased towards Leinster? Think you'd have just as many Leinster in blue saying he's biased towards Munster.

Sign of good commentator that he annoys everyone.

Lost Ormond

clsmooth wrote: »

Clever play. Hasn’t been held.

May not have been held but you cant just crawl if not held. If on ground you cant be playing the ball like that.

Clegg

Encouraging from a Leinster perspective that we managed to monopolise possession for about 20 minutes.

But very concerning that we can't convert that to points. We're struggling at the lineout.

Buer

Festive Life wrote: »

Ref needs to watch James Ryan and all his crawling on ground trying to get extra yards. Blatantly done it 2/3 times already

Always sticking it to the ref. Some things never change.

letowski

twinytwo wrote: »

Careful what you wish for, scanell will give away just as many stupid penos

It’s not just that Marshall penalty, he has thrown crucked and over thrown line-outs too.

sydthebeat

Buer wrote: »

Not a hope it's a card, lads. When has anyone ever got a card for that?

Me... About 8 years ago...

I still get the piss taken out of me for it

guapos

Festive Life wrote: »

It may be in law that its 5 seconds but no ref will ever call it after 5.

Didn't brace call it against mcgrath a few games ago

dregin

It's like playing the all blacks. You need to be beating Leinster by 20 points at half time to have a hope of winning. Try bonus point win incoming for Leinster.

A-Train

Clegg wrote: »

Biased towards Leinster? Think you'd have just as many Leinster in blue saying he's biased towards Munster.

Sign of good commentator that he annoys everyone.

There is no way how anyone could think Toland is biased towards Leinster.

A good commentator and him shouldn’t be mentioned in the same breath.

Scratchly

Leinster should have been taking the points from early on, not opting for scrums and kicks to touch.

I do fancy them for the second half though. They seem to get into good positions pretty quickly and munster seem to be under a fair bit of pressure.

Larmour is having an absolute mare in defence.

ElisaAtWar

Sexton is past his due date. So then it just comes down to brute force vs brute force. And Munster are well good at that

A-Train

Murray looked to have knocked that on just before the penalty was giving away.

Sangre

Healy looks out on his feet already

The Inbetween is mine

That was a bad miss JJ

That's an appalling miss.

Tristram

That's a shocker

Clegg

So how is the Leinster player supposed to present the ball to his side when a load of Munster players have slipped over the ruck?

guapos

Should switch larmour and keenan

eigrod

Munster’s lineout will cost them the game

A-Train

Another great steal from Ryan in the air

Clegg

Good thing Ryan is a superstar

degsie

Larmour is a targeted weakness for the high ball

WH BONNEY

Any chance of a pm for a link lads ?

Clegg

Porter getting penalised for not supporting his own weight is fine. But it's really no different from a few pens Munster have been awarded.

KrustyUCC

Hanrahan should be taken straight off after that miss

No good to his team and no room for further errors

Buer

guapos wrote: »

Should switch larmour and keenan

They're putting the ball where Larmour is.

Move him and they'll move the kick target.

The Inbetween is mine

KrustyUCC wrote: »

Hanrahan should be taken straight off after that miss

No good to his team and no room for further errors

He made one mistake, he's been good all game

A-Train

Porter gets pinged for what Beirne done in the first half???

KrustyUCC

The Inbetween is mine wrote: »

He made one mistake, he's been good all game

No room for that mistake

You'd kill an under 17 for missing that

Green farmer

KrustyUCC wrote: »

Hanrahan should be taken straight off after that miss

No good to his team and no room for further errors

Let murray kick the penalties

errlloyd

A-Train wrote: »

Porter gets pinged for what Beirne done in the first half???

I'm glad he invented the too long call. Its an Andrew Brace 47th minute invention to penalise players who are blatantly not supporting their weight, even when it looks like they are.

bennyl10

Clegg wrote: »

Biased towards Leinster? Think you'd have just as many Leinster in blue saying he's biased towards Munster.

Sign of good commentator that he annoys everyone.

No way in the world can anyone think he is biased towards Munster

Not in a million years

eigrod

Murray has been outstanding

Dave_The_Sheep

errlloyd wrote: »

I'm glad he invented the too long call. Its an Andrew Brace 47th minute invention to penalise players who are blatantly not supporting their weight, even when it looks like they are.

Too low, I think was what he said.

DDC1990

This game is going to be particularly depressing when we manage to lose it.

Doing so much right but the Lineouts and 2 JJ kicks are going to kill us.

theoneeyedman

The Inbetween is mine wrote: »

He made one mistake, he's been good all game

2nd mistake, 2nd missed pen?

Faugheen

Connors isn’t doing it for me today.

KrustyUCC

Poor from Haley

Big scrum coming up here

Clegg

Larmour's fielding had been poor, but he's out in two excellent kicks into the Munster 22 to force 5m scrum penalties.

degsie

Sexton off soon

The Inbetween is mine

The Sherminator has arrived!