Celtic League

Nukem

Tonights matches
Llanelli Scarlets v Edinburgh
Munster v Border Reivers
Glasgow Warriors v Dragons


Munster Team
Shaun Payne; David Wallace, Trevor Halstead, Rob Henderson, John
Kelly; Paul Burke, Peter Stringer; Marcus Horan, Jerry Flannery, Federico
Pucciariello; Trevor Hogan, Mick O'Driscoll; Stephen Keogh, Denis Leamy, Anthony Foley capt
Replacements: Frank Roche, Frank Sheahan, John O'Sullivan, Alan Quinlan, Frank Murphy, Jeremy Manning, Barry Murphy.


*David Wallace at 14*

RuggieBear

is there another d wallace :eek: ??????

Amz

Munster are so short of backs at the moment that they have to shove David Wallace out on the wing ...

It'll be ... "Interesting" at the very least.

GreenHell

I doubt their short, Devlin and Mossie are there if they needed them. Experimentation against the Borders is fine in my books.

buzz55

Is tonights game being shown on tv? what channel if it is please?

thanks!

GreenHell

Setanta 7.30 I think.

GreenHell

Actually its not. I think its on www.live95fm.com though.

[Jackass]

Amz wrote:

Munster are so short of backs at the moment that they have to shove David Wallace out on the wing ...

It'll be ... "Interesting" at the very least.

Agreed, and Leinster are absolutley screwed this season. about 7 first team squad players out, and only one in.

*sigh* It's going to be a long season. I think the fantastic IRFU strategy, and the management at international and provincial level is falling apart. The gravey train is derailed im afraid...it's the start of a critical period in Irish rugby. Unless somebody steps up and makes big decisions in the IRFU this season, we'll be in the same boat as Scotland before long.

Amazotheamazing

The talent is still there, but they run the business badly. One section (Munster) need backs, but have surplus forwards, another section is running low on forwards but has a spare backs (Leinster).
They've more or less destroyed Paddy Wallace's career, nearly destroyed Jeremy Staunton's career (certainly they've damaged it), Casey and Brennan were pushed all the way out too. No wonder players like Duffy, Humphries jnr and Jennings are getting out of the system before it works it's magic on them.

KnowItAll

Kidney is a far too conservative coach imo. There are some good attacking players that are not getting in the team because they aren't the best tacklers.

Munsters real problem though has been their poor skill level. Every 5th pass you'd expect the ball to be fumbled. Compare Munster to Wasps and it shows the difference. Wasps havn't the big name players like Leicester but they can throw the ball left to right to left again and you know they'll not drop the ball.

Leinster will miss Jennings and Byrne and espically Holwell but all the others were only fair players. Leinster could have the 15 greatest players in the world but they'd win nothing because of their unbelievably weak, losers mentality. The clearout will freshen the team up and help them start afresh. Cheika is said to be a no-nonsense coach which is what they badly need after last years mess left by kidney.

Nukem

KnowItAll wrote:

Kidney is a far too conservative coach imo

Huh? He's starting to play flankers on the wing! and he doesnt need to. For the first time in god knows how long Munster actually have some backs. There are a load of new players coming through as well,most noteable is Devlin he's a big enough wing at 15st.
Will admit Kidney needs to throw caution to the wind his year and start doing something different Munsters play was very easy to read last year. Flannery picked ahead of Sheahan is htis a big U-Turn?

KnowItAll

Nukem wrote:

Huh? He's starting to play flankers on the wing! and he doesnt need to.

Thats what I'm saying. Why dosn't he play a winger on the wing. I actually think Wallace could be a big success on the wing with his power and pace but he's only there because he's better at defending than any of the younger players at the moment.

Nukem wrote:

For the first time in god knows how long Munster actually have some backs. There are a load of new players coming through as well,most noteable is Devlin he's a big enough wing at 15st.

I agree about the talent coming through. I hope he'll play some of these players.

Jilm

Fri 2 Sep 19:10 Llanelli Scarlets 15-21 Edinburgh Gunners, Stradey Park att: 5,688

Fri 2 Sep 19:10 Munster 9-7 Border Reivers, Thomond Park att: 3,500

Fri 2 Sep 19:30 Glasgow Warriors 15-21 Dragons, Hughenden att: 2,034

Sat 3 Sep 14:30 Connacht 13-9 Cardiff Blues, Sportsground att: 1,800

Sun 4 Sep 17:10 Ospreys 22-20 Leinster, Morfa Stadium att: 10,131

RuggieBear

blaney is a muppet

[Jackass]

Leinster can't even win a game ospreys tried desperatly to lose.

[Jackass]

Good game by Munster Vs Ospreys.

It's a shame Munster didn't get the bonus, but they looked the part in that match.

They're my team to win the CL this year.

(Leinster to win the HC though, of course )

Amazotheamazing

they did get a bonus point, Payne scored the fourth try after 70 minutes.

Steffano2002

DubGuy wrote:

(Leinster to win the HC though, of course )

You don't really believe that now do you DubGuy?

Jilm

Fri 16 Sep 19:10 Leinster 33-14 Dragons, Donnybrook att: 3,700

Fri 16 Sep 19:30 Ulster 30-23 Edinburgh Gunners, Ravenhill att: 7,799

Sat 17 Sep 17:30 Llanelli Scarlets 25-17 Connacht, Racecourse Ground att: 3,042

Sat 17 Sep 19:30 Glasgow Warriors 32-10 Munster, Hughenden att: 1,884

Sun 18 Sep 16:00 Border Reivers 16-6 Ospreys, Netherdale att: 1,023

Steffano2002

Does anybody know how the Glasgow Warriors prop is doing after what happened to him on Saturday evening? Poor lad looked bad...

[Jackass]

Steffano2002 wrote:

You don't really believe that now do you DubGuy?

Now that you mention it, no

Steffano2002 wrote:

Does anybody know how the Glasgow Warriors prop is doing after what happened to him on Saturday evening? Poor lad looked bad...

It was pretty nasty but according to the Glasgow physio "It's not as bad as it looked". That's good news anyway, although I'd imagine he'll be out for a while.

There's interesting article here about how the injury spurred Glasgow on to a pretty impressive performance.

Steffano2002

I'm glad he's ok. We couldn't really see much on TV but we could hear him shout and the people in the stands looked pretty shocked. Fair play to Glasgow for sticking together and winning the match! By far the better team on the night I thought.

The whole incident reminded me of when I got knocked out on a tackle (in exactly the same conditions actually) last year. I don't remember a thing but it wasn't a great feeling when I came to...

Jilm

Fri 23 Sep 19:10 Munster 14-13 Llanelli Scarlets, Musgrave Park att: 5,000

Sat 24 Sep 14:30 Connacht 15-17 Border Reivers, Sportsground att: 650

Sat 24 Sep 17:30 Dragons 19-22 Ulster, Rodney Parade att: 5,112

Sat 24 Sep 19:30 Glasgow Warriors 23-28 Cardiff Blues, Hughenden att: 1,404

Sun 25 Sep 15:00 Edinburgh Gunners 24-18 Ospreys, Murrayfield

KnowItAll

The Welsh clubs fixtures are handicapping them. They will suffer at the end of the season.

Funkstard

Sorry for dragging this back up, but what exactly happened the Glasgow prop?

Nukem

Watched the Ospreys yesterday in the Powergen and they looked very tired at the end of the match. Reckon it will really fla them come the end of the season!

Nukem