URC Round 9 - Connacht vs Munster - Saturday, Jan 1st @ 5.15pm - Premier Sports, TG4, URC TV

Furthermore how many times does the ref have to tell Casey to "use it" before he actually does or the maul gets penalised, there does appear to be communication problems with Scannell, if the maul is going towards the touchline making it very difficult for Casey to find his OH, make the pack hit the deck and force the Opp to reset.

Yeah but they haven't. That's my point.

Their best team has won 2 from 5 games. They haven't improved the quality or made it more competitive at all. Just added 4 more sh*t teams.

Yes because in the Premiership and Top 14, every team plays against the same teams the same number of times. That's fair.

The URC can't do a round robin format because they've added too many teams, there'd be a 30 game season before the playoffs which is too many, so instead of kicking out the South African and Italian dross who add nothing, they come up with the silly, overly complex, confusing for casual fans and unfair format we have.

Eh yeah....not sure what you're point is there. I never said last nights game was more damaging than the Saracens thing. Odd.

And people seriously need to stop giving Munster a free pass and using rust as an excuse. They've played sh*t rugby all season apart from the Wasps game. As if anything is going to change next week. Leinster's first game of the season was a comprehensive win over the Bulls where they played great rugby.

Are they going to have any home games this season outside of the derbies?

Well then you were watching a completely different game to me. The breakdown was a complete and utter mess. As it is every game he referees.

Yeah and when Leinster played sh*te nobody made up excuses like rustiness. They were rightly criticised.

And I stand by my opinion that Leinster won't win Europe if Sexton gets injured, I don't think that's a controversial opinion at all. Thus making the season a write off because nobody really gives a fcuk about the URC.

Leinster could win the URC at a canter, but if they don't win the Heineken Cup it will be considered a poor season. We've won the URC every year for the last 4 years and people are saying Cullen and Lancaster have underachieved. That's the standard.

Speaking as a Leinster fan, I most certainly care about the league. You may not but I would say you’re in a small minority. Maybe saying nobody like you cares, would be more accurate.

So we have only had 4 successful years in the last 25 or so. Sucks to be you.

Hugely reductive and binary view of things!? On the internet. Well I never……

Why is there 263 posts on a match that got called off and never happened?

shows the foolishness of awarding 28-0 shorelines for walkovers, as bad as Munster were connacht wouldnt have scored 28 points by now if they kept playing.

True enough, Munster wouldn't have scored any if Connacht weren't on the pitch to gift them a few.

It's extremely annoying that refs ignore blatant offside anywhere else on the pitch but then when one team is 5m out offside becomes the most important thing in the world, they're checking hands are behind the line etc. And that's not specific to this game or Busby.