Edinburgh vs Munster, Sat 20th Feb, 7:35pm

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Edinburgh Rugby:
15. Damien Hoyland (77)
14. Jack Blain (8)
13. Mark Bennett (48)
12. Chris Dean (103)
11. Eroni Sau (17)
10. Jaco van der Walt (67)
9. Henry Pyrgos CO-CAPTAIN (44)

1. Pierre Schoeman (56)
2. David Cherry (31)
3. Lee-Roy Atalifo (3)
4. Andrew Davidson (10)
5. Grant Gilchrist CO-CAPTAIN (155)
6. Nick Haining (18)
7. Luke Crosbie (48)
8. Viliame Mata (81)

Substitutes:
16. Mike Willemse (31)
17. Boan Venter (0)
18. Murray McCallum (58)
19. Magnus Bradbury (89)
20. Ally Miller (19)
21. Charlie Shiel (26)
22. Nathan Chamberlain (6)
23. Matt Currie (0)

Unavailable through international selection (8): Simon Berghan, Rory Darge, Willem Nel, Jamie Ritchie, Rory Sutherland, George Taylor*, Duhan van der Merwe, Hamish Watson.

Munster:
Mike Haley; Andrew Conway, Chris Farrell, Damian de Allende, Shane Daly; JJ Hanrahan, Craig Casey;
James Cronin, Niall Scannell, John Ryan; Jean Kleyn, Billy Holland (C); Jack O’Donoghue, Chris Cloete, Gavin Coombes.

Replacements: Kevin O’Byrne, Jeremy Loughman, Stephen Archer, Fineen Wycherley, Jack O’Sullivan, Nick McCarthy, Ben Healy, Rory Scannell.

A strong looking Munster side with our returning Ireland squad players included.

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Hooker David Cherry – who made his Test debut in the national side’s Calcutta Cup win over England at Twickenham – second-row stalwart and co-captain Grant Gilchrist and stand-off Jaco van der Walt will all start the Guinness PRO14 clash following their fallow week release from the international championship.

aloooof

Pretty strong looking team. Great to see Conway back, think that's his first game in awhile?

yerrahbah

aloooof wrote: »

Pretty strong looking team. Great to see Conway back, think that's his first game in awhile?

Great to have him back

Played again Harlequins Dec 13th, hasn't featured since

The likes of Coombes, Casey and Daly will be looking to catch the attention of Farrell ahead of the Italy game

greenkiwi1

yerrahbah wrote: »

Great to have him back

Played again Harlequins Dec 13th, hasn't featured since

The likes of Coombes, Casey and Daly will be looking to catch the attention of Farrell ahead of the Italy game

Would have started KOB for the above reasons to maybe get a look in at Irish camp. Hope it’s not going to revert back to the NScannell show with our best hookers KOB & Marshall having to share 5 minutes off the bench.

Sabre0001

Strong team. Great to see Conway back and hopefully himself and Daly go well. Would have liked to see O'Byrne at 2 - he's been great this season. Maybe he'll get a run against a tiring team and get to show off the silky hands

phog

Delighted to see Conway back, probably too late for him to make claim for a 6Ns spot but here's hoping.

thomond2006

No experimenting in that lineup by Munster. Connacht aren't mathematically gone yet and I don't think we can count on the season ending in March given the current Covid situation.

TomsOnTheRoof

Delighted for Conway but disappointed overall. I don't see how Scannell deserves to be starting ahead of O'Byrne and having Archer on the bench, especially considering his last performance, is a wasted opportunity. Likewise, given that we have fly half covered on the bench I think Rory is fortunate enough. I know the lads just signed two year contracts but I find it hard to fathom personally.

bayern

No Crowley?

.ak

Good looking backline. Should make easy work of Edinburgh.

Sabre0001

.ak wrote: »

Good looking backline. Should make easy work of Edinburgh.

Ah, you've fallen for the classic Munster ruse - we'll likely win in the final few mins with a dropgoal or clutch try!

razorblunt

Decent starting XV for Edinburgh, backs on the bench not so much.
Big fan of Crosbie.

thomond2006

A 10 point wind I'd say!

theVersatile

Bump.

Cloete involved early

razorblunt

Cloete pinged early.

Neck roll on Farrell not pinged.
Stall set out by the ref early.

Dave_The_Sheep

Edinburgh starting pretty well, to be fair to them.

sioda

How many times have you to be asked to use it by the ref.

The Inbetween is mine

Use it..use.it...use it...refs need to cut that out.. penalise the delay and that will end it pdq

greenkiwi1

Watched RK play this morning with the Force in Super Rugby AU. Commentator mentioned that there is a new hard 5 sec rule for box kicks etc from the first Use It. Hardly any box kicks....

The Inbetween is mine

The wind really held JJ's kick up there

razorblunt

I thought they might play this in mini Murrayfield.

aloooof

Some good stuff in the last 10 mins.

razorblunt

Schoeman offside by a mile.

The Inbetween is mine

That was the second try we scored there I'd say

sioda

Set pieces looking excellent tonight tbf

The Inbetween is mine

O'Donoghue touched the line there?

sioda

The Inbetween is mine wrote: »

O'Donoghue touched the line there?

I thought so

The Inbetween is mine

Keep up the workrate here and we could really hurt them tonight

sioda

Surprised no yellow for Edinburgh at this stage

razorblunt

Munster are getting a good return on counter rucks too many Edinburgh lads just setting for the sake of it.

razorblunt

Crucial tap by Coombes.

aloooof

Some very good stuff in that first half, particularly in the final 20 mins, the bouncing re-start form Edinburgh aside. JOD going well and it felt like he should have 2 tries for himself, would like to see a replay of that.

Boscoirl

The ref was giving the try but Jack placed it back to recycle it.

yerrahbah

Good half after a very ill disciplined first 10 minutes.

Set piece looks solid.

Thrashssacre

Don't have any volume on have they said why Edinburgh aren't using their new ground?

budhabob

Messy start to the second half, Munster putting themselves under pressure

razorblunt

Thrashssacre wrote: »

Don't have any volume on have they said why Edinburgh aren't using their new ground?

I’m guessing it was only officially finished midweek.
Might not have wanted to setup TV coverage there on short notice.

razorblunt

Poor from Haley he messed that up. Had more time than thought.

Boscoirl

Edinburgh offside all night. Ref tells 1 to go back onside. Doesn’t bother. Play on. Worse than the “ use it” calls.

Lost Ormond

Thrashssacre wrote: »

Don't have any volume on have they said why Edinburgh aren't using their new ground?

Only very recently completed building the venue. Theyre going to use it primarily for training in short term and use it for games when crowds are back

thomond2006

He scores every week does Coombes.

razorblunt

12 phases there or what we. All sealed off. Every time.

Not to mention schoeman taking it to ground twice on his carries.

Squidgy Black

They really need to bring the 5 second rule for use it that's being brought in for Super Rugby. Outrageous amount of time at the base for some of the forwards there.

The Inbetween is mine

Changing 4 players when you are defending scrum on 5m..could be trouble here

Lost Ormond

Squidgy Black wrote: »

They really need to bring the 5 second rule for use it that's being brought in for Super Rugby. Outrageous amount of time at the base for some of the forwards there.

You mean enforce existing laws?
Never going to happen...
Not watching so cant comment but is it just much worse than normal. Only way you could stick to the 5 second law when ball is available is ref to count aloud to 5 but i wouldnt agree to that

razorblunt

Adamson really is making a mess of this half. This scrum passage is never ending, he hasn’t got a notion of what he’s looking at here.

razorblunt

Take a scrum Munster!

irelandrover

The last 20 minutes had been painful watching

The Inbetween is mine

Quick scrum here please

thomond2006

razorblunt wrote: »

Adamson really is making a mess of this half. This scrum passage is never ending, he hasn’t got a notion of what he’s looking at here.

That suited Munster perfectly. Once they managed to clear their lines, that was the end of the game as a contest.