Munster Team Talk Thread - Beirne After Reading

I do think we'll see the Ahern experiment end once Kleyn and POM return.

With Edogbo now sidelined, Coombes is really the only forward with the height and heft to be the toilet-cleaner.

Buckley isn’t particularly big at all? He’s 6ft and 105kg. On the scales he’s the exact same size as Clarke. If anything the fringe Munster players like Kendellan, O’Donoghue, Daly and both Wycherley’s look underpowered and small for their positions.

My guess is that you then have Ahern and Beirne in the second row, which is a bit weak in the toilet-cleaning department.

I'd go easy on him, given his frame. Took Toner until his mid twenties to really be an asset in that department.

I think either way, Munster’s upper management need to being the process of acquiring medical jokers at hooker and second row. Buckley is the only fit senior hooker atm, and Beirne and Ahern in the second row (with Beirne on international duty soon). We’re just not going to be able to get through these mid season games intact. Its possibly too late anyway for Europe, I don’t know how we go down to Toulon with this matchday squad (minus Jager and JOD) and get a result next week.

As always there are over reactions and "under" reactions.

Lineout should never be like that. Even with the injuries. A hooker who can't throw is just not worth it. Timings were wrong too but hard to know from outside.

We had no direction on the field. Butler is young. Murray is not. The aimless side to side attack was demoralising. With the personnel available, it was absolutely a day for kicking it and trusting defence.

Injuries are catastrophic and we are struggling hugely as a result understandably but you'd hope your 4th choice hooker could throw and that your 3rd choice loosehead is trusted for more than 4 mins? So those criticisms are valid for me. But they'll take time to fix.

On field performance should still be far better than the last month.

Munster injuries:

1.POM

2.Edogbo

3.Barron - foot injury- seeing specialist - no return date

4.scannell

5.Klyne

6.Carberry

7.Wycherley

8.Clarke

9.Jager

10.JOD

11.RG Snyman

12. kilcoyne

13.Nankiveil

14.campbell

15. L Coombes

16. Salanoa

17. Haley

Ahern had a fine game, watch back the contributions be made from pressuring a knock on from the restart by Mccarthy, he was excellent.

Definitely the result 😂

It’s a shame to see Jager injured, I wasn’t expecting much from him but it was refreshing to see a big and fit front row carrying and constantly looking to carry into contact against Leinster.

They should borrow Soroka and Deeny for a month.