Munster Team Talk Thread - Beirne After Reading

Serious line and offload from O'Donoghue. Santi wanted none of that tackle on Coombes.

Every time I see Butler I think he looks a nice player too with a lovely whipped pass. Maybe if Burns is hurt it’ll mean a few starts for Butler over the next few weeks.

Tony hasn't exactly given an exhibition in defence since coming on. Lovely player going forward though and not afraid to try things.

Experience would be good for him personally but can't help but hope that Crowley is given the greenlight soon.

Hairy enough, thought Connacht probably deserved more than 2 points. But I guess you take the TBP win. Need to improve on defence but encouraging enough signs in attack, particurly Nanks and Farrell.

Atmosphere was great in Thomond for the last 30. Very enjoyable

Well that game was interesting... I pity the reporters on Monday morning trying to make sense of it

Really enjoyed that one. Some thoughts:

1. Cracking game of rugby, and a good atmosphere in lovely conditions. Connacht will feel they left that one behind, but very enjoyable all round.
2. That said, Munster's error count just way too high. We shored up the early lineout issues, but other errors continued all game.
3. Nank deserved MOTM, but Haley equally could've gotten it imo. Both had a fine game, just excellent all day.
4. Casey was excellent, the poor bit of defending for Ioane's try aside. Was really in the wars as well, and made some excellent snipes. Clear yellow for Cordero for me, but thought it should've been looked at as a possible penalty try, not sure there was cover in behind.
5. Tom Farrell had a bit of a mixed bag. Some brilliant stuff in attack but 1 or 2 mistakes defensively, biting in.
6. Shane Daly is just routinely solid for us a this point, especially defensively but had some nices breaks for us as well today, like line-break off a set moved on 2nd phase in the 2nd half.
7. Burns didn't have a great game by any means (the 2 kicks to touch, but he threw 2 hospital passes to Barron and Coombes as well) but you'd have to hope the injury isn't too bad. I wouldn't like to have to rely on Tony Butler and probably Rory Scannell until Crowley is available. Butler with a couple of costly missed tackles, but he'll learn from it.
8. Thought Ruadhán Quinn was disappointing, was hoping for more from him.
9. From a Connacht perspective, Josh Murphy had a fine game on both sides of the ball.
10. Feels like I need a 10th point to round it out so…. welcome back Jean Kleyn.

My thinking is that Butler could well be, but bringing Burns in will do little else but stall his (and someone like Hicks, albeit to a lesser extent) development. Obviously the squad is looking a little light on experience at 10 so it might make sense to bring in an older hand to guide the others in their development, i just don't think BB is of a high enough quality for that

Should be looking at wins vs Zebre and Ospreys now, before the Leinster game and trip to SA. Think it's the first time since the SA teams have been added that we have them this early in the season?

Thought Abrahams was quiet, didn't really get into the game much. Decent kick or 2, mixed bag with his tackling, but on that evidence are we expecting the 1st choice back 3 to remain Daly, Nash and Haley? Or where does Kilgallen come into it when back from injury?