HCC Round 4 - Munster vs. Wasps - Sunday, Jan 23rd @ 3.15pm - BT Sport 2

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When Heineken first sponsored the European Cup I'm 99% sure they gave out a man of the match award.

Its not very important what they call the best player but it is being PC in my opinion.

As I said, they played some very nice stuff

We secured the tbp after about 40 minutes. The game was full of stoppages that ruined the flow and made it seem like the game dragged. The players played good attacking rugby. A 12 min stoppage just before half time was nobodies fault. The referee Constantly calling time off every few mins didn't help at all

This was a dupe post but may as well ask here now

At the game ref seemed very slow in getting Wasps to use the ball when we stopped their mauls. There seemed to be a few that never even got going but ref allowed then time to get moving then we stopped them again and they got time to get momentum again. Was ref telling them to use it at all?

Ref was telling them to use it, but then forgetting he told them that and allowing the maul to continue for ages afterwards

Happened in at least 3 mauls (all wasps mauls)

The laws are clear. If the maul is stopped, the ref calls it as stopped. the mauling side can try to push forward one more time, and if they're stopped again, they have to take the ball out of the mall or else it's a penalty to the defending team

Very simple laws, that this particular ref decided to not enforce

Doesn't matter because it didn't affect the game, but on another day..

My view at the game was he gave them too much time, way too much at times to get the maul moving or to use it.

LO hasn't seen the game so he's probably defending the ref for the sake of the ref being right.

Same here, delighted with the performance as was everyone around me. The second half was very scrappy at times but there were two if not three long stoppages. Hope those Wasps players are alright.

We bossed them throughout, bar a couple of occasions of them on our line and bit of concern about the sub scrum towards the end maybe, think they got two penalties in a row against us. Thought Murray, Beirne, JOD, Healy, Conway all had fine games. Zebo looked sharp also. Barron impressed me too.

It wasn't a full 80 minute clinical performance but lots to be positive about, some lovely interplay and offloading going on.

How does that work? Munster wouldn't have had as many points if Castres had beaten them.

It's taking advantage of a chance for PR after they would have been going to change it anyway. That's what it looks like to me.

Why else does it happen at the same time other comps are changing to gender-neutral terms? Why not 10 years ago. Heineken have been the sponsor for a long time.

makes you wonder how this kind of thing goes over in France where every arbitrary object is given a gender.

I could be mistaken as my french has rusted over the years but a star would be Une etoile which is feminine. So instead of a masculine “man of the match” in mens rugby we have a star of the match which is feminine in french.

its a mad world sometimes.

If Castres had won their match, then Quinns would have finished below Munster

Wasps look poor because they are poor, like Bath looked poor against Leinster becasue they are crap. Wasp this season shipped 56 points V Saracens, 34 V Newcastle, 55 V Leicester at home, 35 V Glochester at home and 35 and 45 V Munster. They have had a handfull of victories against good opposition. If you mean a serious team capable of winning a cup then you are mistaken.