Benetton vs Munster, Sat 30th Jan 5pm; Eir Sport 1

thomond2006

Benetton:
15 Jayden Hayward (113),
14 Angelo Esposito (93),
13 Joaquin Riera (9),
12 Ignacio Brex (38),
11 Tommaso Benvenuti (114),
10 Tommaso Allan (59),
9 Callum Braley (9),
8 Toa Halafihi (31),
7 Manuel Zuliani (6),
6 Marco Barbini (c) (101),
5 Federico Ruzza (62),
4 Irné Herbst (52),
3 Marco Riccioni (32),
2 Tomas Baravalle (47),
1 Thomas Gallo (4).

A disposizione: 16 Corniel Els, 17 Nicola Quaglio (57), 18 Tiziano Pasquali (79), 19 Eli Snyman (19), 20 Giovanni Pettinelli (41), 21 Alberto Sgarbi (243), 22 Luca Petrozzi (13), 23 Leonardo Sarto (12).

Munster:
Mike Haley; Liam Coombes, Dan Goggin, Rory Scannell, Darren Sweetnam; Ben Healy, Nick McCarthy;
Josh Wycherley, Niall Scannell, Roman Salanoa; Fineen Wycherley, Billy Holland (C); Jack O’Donoghue, Chris Cloete, Gavin Coombes.

Replacements: Kevin O’Byrne, Jeremy Loughman, Stephen Archer, Thomas Ahern, Tommy O’Donnell, Paddy Patterson, JJ Hanrahan, Damian de Allende.

Clareman

I was hoping Ethan Coughlan would be making his debut this week

thomond2006

Clareman wrote: »

I was hoping Ethan Coughlan would be making his debut this week

I imagine he'll get a run at some stage over the next while.

aloooof

Salanoa's first start, I think. Looking forward to seeing how he goes.

thomond2006

I'd have liked Ahern to get the start but hopefully he gets 25-30 minutes.

Plenty experience on that bench in case things go awry.

yerrahbah

A big game from Healy could see him become first choice outhalf for the rest of the season

Clareman

thomond2006 wrote: »

I imagine he'll get a run at some stage over the next while.

Yeah, hopefully, be great to see him get a run although it is very early in his career. I'd imagine if he wasn't injured earlier in the season that he'd be more likely to get a run in this game.

shootermacg

That's a super team to put out, great mix and we get to have a look at the young lads. Delighted!

sydthebeat

That's a decent Treviso team, but they are playing like a drain this season

arsebiscuits1

Paddy Patterson straight into the fire.

Hope it goes well for him.

His passing and kicking for Leinster A were not good the other week. But he brings a lot of tempo

thomond2006

There is a lot of experience coming off the bench for Munster, I'd like to think they can win this comfortably even if it becomes a dogfight.
It's only Nick McCarthy's second start of the season and it's a big series of games for him.

yerrahbah

Salanoa out. Archer starts with Ryan on the bench.

That's a real shame

thomond2006

https://twitter.com/Munsterrugby/status/1355559386299707393

Munster:
Mike Haley; Liam Coombes, Dan Goggin, Rory Scannell, Darren Sweetnam; Ben Healy, Nick McCarthy;
Josh Wycherley, Niall Scannell, Stephen Archer; Fineen Wycherley, Billy Holland (C); Jack O’Donoghue, Chris Cloete, Gavin Coombes.

Replacements: Kevin O’Byrne, Jeremy Loughman, John Ryan, Thomas Ahern, Tommy O’Donnell, Paddy Patterson, JJ Hanrahan, Damian de Allende.

The Inbetween is mine

yerrahbah wrote: »

Salanoa out. Archer starts with Ryan on the bench.

That's a real shame

The one player I was looking forward to seeing getting a good run

thomond2006

Absolute gift of a try.

yerrahbah

That first penalty was fortunate enough too. Great start

arsebiscuits1

thomond2006 wrote: »

Absolute gift of a try.

Hayward marginally unlucky but made an absolute dogs dinner of it

thomond2006

Benetton on 3 penalties conceded already I think.

thomond2006

Good play off the turnover after losing the ball near the line earlier.

Akrasia

Nice broken play try there

arsebiscuits1

Very little change on the maul for Munster

aloooof

What a try that is.

yerrahbah

Maul hasn't been great so far. Some nice offloading there for the 2nd try

arsebiscuits1

Lovely try!!

3 top quality offloads in a row.

arsebiscuits1

At first glance Coombes and Goggin look extremely similar

letowski

Lol who does a box kick when your 20 yards from the try line off a maul.

MaddChris

Mccarthy charged down twice already.

Also, tv director needs to cop on. Nobody wants to see coach's faces in the middle of a line out throw.

aloooof

Liam Coombes having a very good game so far.

Akrasia

A more switched on side would have kept that penalty in field. Healy living dangerously

yerrahbah

You get a buzz cut and you get a buzz cut

yerrahbah

Scrappy 10 mins there. Trying to do too much

aloooof

Sweetnam looked much too narrow there where we had numbers?

arsebiscuits1

Fluid rugby there by Bennetton. Great try.

Akrasia

Nicely worked try from Benneton there. Haley made a big mistake in the end

arsebiscuits1

Ooof. Baby toe in touch there??

Very close

aloooof

arsebiscuits1 wrote: »

Ooof. Baby toe in touch there??

Very close

Just on the whitewash, I thought, but you'd be raging if that was ruled out for yer own team.

The Inbetween is mine

James Downey is coming across very well, intelligent input

MaddChris

Headless stuff in attack, no cohesion whatsoever.

arsebiscuits1

aloooof wrote: »

Just on the whitewash, I thought, but you'd be raging if that was ruled out for yer own team.

Agree. One of those moments where "clear and obvious" direction gets you a get out clause

aloooof

Munster will be very disappointed with this period with Benetton down to 14.

thomond2006

Not a great last 10-15.

yerrahbah

Good job we got those two early tries because its been pretty poor stuff since

The Inbetween is mine

Time to move out of second gear now

yerrahbah

Why Cloete? Why?

thomond2006

That's just awful from Cloete.

MaddChris

And there's 1st of the obligatory Cloete penalties.

budhabob

MaddChris wrote: »

And there's 1st of the obligatory Cloete penalties.

Time to move him on, all the potential but just a liability for these days.

Akrasia

Remind me, which team is top of the conference and which are bottom again?

Akrasia

budhabob wrote: »

Time to move him on, all the potential but just a liability for these days.

He’s a player built for the new breakdown interpretations but his discipline just keeps letting us down

arsebiscuits1

Without derailing the match thread.

Is Hodnett considered a 7? If so the sooner he takes over from Cloete the better.

yerrahbah

This is really poor stuff