Munster Team Talk Thread - Beirne After Reading

Is it Burns or Crowley that have kicked those awful restarts?

Or one each?

It’s been a very poor display though overall by Munster. Some shocking play, between the scrums, lineouts, throws into touch, intercepts, restarts, I mean where do you start. The management have an awful lot of stuff to clean up.

A glaring drop in quality from the bench, a massive capitulation in the key facets of defence and game management.

2/5, three pretty callow losses on the road. Rowntree better start offering some answers.

That was pretty awful Munsters basics are shocking

Don't think this management team has the know how to clean this mess up

Coaches aren't necessarily to blame if the players struggle in a one off game. Those kinds of things happen from time to time.

But if the same issues arise across multiple games then the coaches deserve criticism. Munster's lineout has been poor this season and imo hasn't been great for multiple seasons either.

Watched on RTE2 +1 and sorry I did. We're a complete rabble at the moment. Lineout is an appalling mess, not sure it was a demolition job by Leinster last week. Looks like that it's down to ourselves.

Crowley was abysmal, which is fine, provided it's a once off. Throwing 2 intercepts in one game is unforgiveable. And a poor miss from a conversion. Under pressure now for the green shirt from Frawley.

Why we brought in Billy Burns is beyond me. He's useless, and has been proven to be useless at several clubs.

The squad is very weak, front row has huge mileage on the clock. Kieran Ryan did well, but he's an AIL player.

Too many fellas have time and again shown they're not up to it. Jack O'Donoghue with a brain dead penalty for obstruction, leads to a try. He's at it all his career.

They're better be a huge reaction next week because otherwise the season will slip away.

Wrong thread.

crowley was poor today but was the better 10 by far last week. frawley definitely has potential but some of his kicking last week was very, very loose and he hasnt shown enough control of games yet to warrant overtaking crowley for now. having said that, the european final and the 2nd SA test show that he at least has balls, even if he has some other work ons

Why is it acceptable to start slow. Doing it for one season and getting away with it fair enough. Surely lessons would be learned

negatives - Crowley had a worryingly poor game. 2 no- look passes were schoolboy errors, failed to kick 10 metres another mistake.
no dog in the lineup who is going to grab people by the scruff of the neck like OMahony does when the opposition crosses the line e.g. entering a ruck from the side like Clarke suffered

Ref was appalling from start to finish- within the first 5 minutes he missed a penalty for Munster when the Stormer player failing to release a Munster player in the tackle late tackle on Haley should have resulted in more than a penalty. No way OMahoney would stand for that.

A few forward passes out to the winger like against Leinster

No strategy to beat the rush defense by breaking the line and getting in behind

Positives - Sean OBrien, Abern played well, Kleyn back and in good form. Depressing TBH