Munster Team Talk Thread - Beirne After Reading

much as i like the guy, and im sure it wasnt his all his fault, but munster's back play was woeful under jones. why he thought using 5'10 rory scannell take pretty much every first phase ball into contact was a good idea was beyond me, especially when we had 6'4 chris farrell outside him. the backline wasn't exactly the reason why SA won the rwc either (as good as they were)

id like him to do well but he strikes me as more of a head coach/DOR probably

Happy out with that, good timing as well as it will give a lift before this weekends game, both for the squad and the fans so there'll probably be a few more bums on seats, it's like it was planned...

Happy with that, but you'd have to think the backroom team appointments will be pretty crucial.

Stadium holds 25,600 which means less than 80% of tickets are sold 5,000 tickets at an average of €35 a pop (assuming the pricier tickets are sold) is 175k just on the ticket value alone

Could Rob Howley come into the equation as an experienced backs/attack coach. Has worked with Rowntree previously at Lions level.

Was interviewed back in 2019 for the role with Munster before Larkam got it.

Obviously around the same time he was banned for coaching for 2 years im not sure if that was announced before or after larkam got the gig.

He has Obviously served his suspension and I believe he is currently involved with Canada.

What about Johne Murphy as attach coack? He knows Rowntree from Leicester and has been doing well coaching in the schools game with Newbridge.

That's true but in seasons before covid some pool home games had attendance of 25k. There might be an asterix over those figures including season ticket holders but with people not being able to attend games for a while with covid and not having a 3rd home pool game would be great if it's as close as possible to a sell out. That said there's still a few days for people to pick up tickets.

Yeah get ya, meant it more the last time there weren't restrictions on full attendance. Also issue of cost of tickets, price of petrol etc with rising cost of living. At least it's a decent time for anyone getting public transport or bringing kids. Either way should have decent support for only guaranteed home knock-out game up to now.

I wouldn't say Howley would be the most inspiring appointment but he is going to need some experienced coaches around him too. Additional coaches will be available post world cup too..

Id imagine Ian Costello will be on the ticket which would be great considering his knowledge of the acemedy players coming through and there was talk of the NZ 7's coach Clark Laidlaw too. A young irish forwards coach could learn alot from Rowntree if they got on the ticket like o'Brien, Coughlan, muldoon or Don Ryan.