Munster Team Talk Thread - Beirne After Reading

Nope.

And madrid.

It's hardly JVGs fault that Snyman got instantly injured, twice, or that Jenkins has barely played half an hour since signing, or that carberry can't string together 5 games without random long term injuries either

Munster started really really poorly last night. I was absolutely dreading the final result, but fair play to them, something shifted and they started to play

They still made some mistakes, understandable given the conditions but they were clearly trying to play positive rugby and that is the only reason we won. Ulster seeme to have a gameplay of either kicking it away or giving it to Dwaine but we did up the intensity and put them under a huge amount of pressure with our linespeed so I genuinely think we made them look bad rather then them under performing

I think you're skipping over the fact that they played horrible, limited, unimaginative and unambitious rugby again. And then would be a good time to introduce the conditions as a mitigation for the individual instance and an excuse for the fact that that's just how Munster plays these days.

Who knew that going down to 14 men was the way to kick-start a performance. We didn't play with the flair we did in that Glasgow match but there was something that just seemed to spark a determination to win. Down to 14, poor conditions, you win how you win. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't great for the blood pressure but it was a win.

Wish we'd stop using our centres as additional forwards all the time and let the backs play like backs. Chris Farrell (and DDA when fit) are more than battering rams.

I'm ready for JvG to leave, I'd love to see Rowntree get the main job, bring Costello back into the senior fold too.

Ulster played the game they were allowed to play

I'm so sick of the narrative that every single time Munster win, its because the other team played badly, and every time we lose, it's because Munster played badly

Reports this morning that we're signing Malakai Fekitoa from Wasps to replace DDA. Michael Corcoran saying de Allende is off to Japan.

No, not at all. I'd prefer if munster had ambition to play God rugby or at least win things. But if you're you're happy with your team playing as they are, that's grand.

Why would you prefer if munster had ambition to play good rugby ?

I don’t really care if other clubs have ambition to play good rugby

No one here (and also the players and coach’s) is saying they are happy with the way munster play at times.

but id say every club and coach could say the same.

but of course we celebrate our wins. That’s ok, is it ? Or do you have to play a certain way to be happy with a win.

Error-strewn and inaccurate, in part because the handling skills of the forwards isn’t quite where you’d like it to be.

I agree it was entirely unambitious last weekend. Here, it was limited for large spells, in large part out of necessity due to conditions and the red card.

But the same claim has been made on here in games where we’ve seen Archer pop passes from the deck, John Ryan offloads and Kleyn tip on passes.

I’m not saying we’re running from our own try line, but we’ve been trying to play an awful lot better than has made out on here at times. If it’s not sticking, that’s something else entirely.