Munster Team Talk Thread - Beirne After Reading

Some important info for MRSC members and the ticket lottery for the Wasps Game

It will be a very very very tiresome 6 months if every time the man opens his mouth he'll have the army of Lunster fans moaning about how he stabbed munster in the back and is acting like a baby and should have been fired and is a terrible coach etc etc

I feckin hope he wins a trophy with Munster this year, and goes on to win the Premiership in his first year at Bath just to see how the levels of salt increase and how its justified

Ha! I would also think the irfu will have to give him a central contract. He must be getting inundated with offers.

Hopefully they are just waiting to announce it around 6N squad time.

Unfair? Why? The initial communication was for 3 matches, two URC and one EPRC, our clash with Leinster in the UTRC was postponed after the initial comms from the MRSC so they issued another one saying everyone would be included in both lotteries. Now they have learnt from the Ulster game and they're asking members to opt in if you want to be in the lottery.

I think they're making the best of a very bad and something not of their doing.

Two different competitions and everyone that want's to be is included. Hardly unfair.

Yes, every single member of the press was calling on JVG to be fired, without fail, even this guy

Instead of being pedantic... I listened to every podcast that I'm aware of who cover the Pro-14 (many of them were broadcast on radio and later podcasted) and in every single one of them there were people bringing up the Keith Wood and Peter Stringer Narrative that JVG should be put on gardening leave and that he wasn't dedicated to munster or was toxic and destroying players potential

Not every 'pundit' agreed, but they all talked about it, and very few of them defended JVG

He's human, he had a very sh1tty week and was treated very poorly by a lot of the rugby press. Even before during and after the Ulster match, a load of the commentary focused on the Connacht match. RTE commentators could barely shut up about Munsters' poor Connacht performance during the Ulster game.

I was very disappointed after that Connacht match. It was a very poor performance, I think JVG got the selection wrong and the strategy wrong and the players were disjointed. But the reaction from the media was absolutely ridiculously over the top

I've seen Leinster have equally poor performances and not once has lancaster' or Cullen been challenged to be replaced or put on garden leave etc

The fact that JVG is moving to a new club next season is not ideal, it puts a spanner in the Munster medium term strategy, which was probably to replace JVG after the world cup anyway. JVG probably knew he had a more secure future at Bath than at Munster and decided to go now on his own terms instead of job hunting at the start of the next world cup cycle.

He made a decision, Munster are dealing with it, the Media can stop all their sh1t stirring now please and let him get on with his job for the rest of the season.