Munster Team Talk Thread - Beirne After Reading

He did go to SA after the main tour, same as Zebo and Coombes I think

I think Casey posted something at the time like that Grandpa Simpson thing where he walked in and straight back out

Wasps won't know what hit them if we can start strong and make a few big hits and hopefully get the first points on the board

Our Centres of DDA and Farrell with experienced halfbacks should allow us control the middle of the park in open play, so if we can keep it simple at set piece, hold our own at scrum time, and keep our own lineout simple, we mightn't have a platform to attack, but we need to not be coughing up posession on our own set piece

Carberry's boot may be doing an awful lot of the heavy lifting on the scoreboard, and Murray's box kicking is going to be really useful to get us out of tight spots and to hopefully gain territory

The team that wasps have named is not exactly the stuff of nightmares. Obviously they've a lot more experience than our lads will have, but they're mostly experienced premiership level players rather than ERC and Internationals.

15 Marcus Watson (59)

14 Zach Kibirige (56)

13 Michael Le Bourgeois (65)

12 Jimmy Gopperth (136)

11 Josh Bassett (158)

10 Jacob Umaga (58)

9 Sam Wolstenholme (22)

1 Tom West (57)

2 Dan Frost (5)

3 Biyi Alo (22)

4 Sebastian de Chaves (5)

5 Elliott Stooke (9)

6 Alfie Barbeary (16)

7 Brad Shields (61) (c)

8 Tom Willis (49)

Replacements

16 Gabriel Oghre (53)

17 Robin Hislop (9)

18 Jeffery Toomaga-Allen (53)

19 Tim Cardall (37)

20 Nizaam Carr (63)

21 Thomas Young (147)

22 Will Porter (37)

23 Francois Hougaard (4)

I think the Quality we have from the Munster internationals along with the raw talent and motivation to play the game of their lives could make this a close game. I still think Munster will probably lose, but we have a chance, with nothing to lose, to pull something amazing off this weekend