Munster Team Talk Thread - Beirne After Reading

This is huge for Munster. Over 40,000 fans at Munster game in the province. Anyone thinking Munster should just fulfill the fixture is not on this planet.

I booked a day off work today, came to Cork early and since before lunchtime there's a steady flow of fans arriving and milling around the city and it's great to see.

did i mishear the commentary? thought it said that munster havent played a touring team in cork for 50 or so years, must be forgetting the aus game in 92 for one

Henco van Wyk was badly caught out in defence in the run up for that try.

Really enjoying this game. And it's Thursday!

That's dreadful from JOD. Butchered a certain try.

They'd conceded three pens in a row at that stage.

Some stop put to that maul.

We're playing into a very strong wind in the second half, keeping them scoreless just before half time could be huge for us, we may need the 14point cushion.

Great night so far

Well this is great fun. Enjoyable game to be honest especially in those conditions.

I believe that it was 2013 when then Leinster CEO Mick Dawson addressed the idea in a Q&A. While it was a long time ago Dawson was the CEO in Leinster until recently so his opinions are still quite relevant.

He was of the opinion that it wouldn't make sense for Leinster. Basically Leinster have to rent the RDS. Leinster would have to pay a match fee for the touring team.

While hosting a touring side would appear profitable in simple terms he felt that a significant number of ticket sales would be casual fans that would buy tickets for a game less during the season. As such the profit would be a false economy and hosting a touring game would not be financially worth it.

He also said that Leinster would need a rock solid case for a game to get IRFU approval to host a touring side as Leinster playing an international side would compete with Ireland Autumn internationals to a greater extent than other teams hosting a touring side as the games would be Dublin.

This has been class so far.

Shane Daly playing really well. Delighted for Zebo with the try. And Barron, lineout maul try was quality. Going for the corner twice was really brave and paid off.

Frisch looking really good with the bit of ball he’s gotten. Gav Coombes and Healy going well too, and Edogbo seems to be attracting a little bit of attention from SA.

Unusually high number of scrums, and still going in with that scoreline is a real positive. Improvement in the scrum as the half went on hopefully we can keep it close there. Small bit worried about our bench, but this is tee’d up beautifully.

Fortune favours the brave

Half backs for Munster playing brilliantly.