URC 24/25 Season Munster v Leinster Friday 27th Dec 7:35 Kick-off [Build-up / Match Thread] PS2&TG4

As a neutral, it's been well reffed. Good to see.

Billy Burns is the least of their worries. They're losing every scrum and lineout.

Dire

Leinster had a bit of luck on who got the yellow. Could easily have been Doris.

Let's relax a bit... a second row keeping pace with him from 50 out and the red sea parting for a couple of run-inntries is not an indication of Bryan Habana-incarnate wearing 10

Two poor enough displays here, Munster with more territory and possession maybe but doing nothing with it. Leinster far more clinical.

Don't see either side winning anything this year, maybe Leinster the league.

Hope Prendy gives them the hairdryer at half-time

Leinster have put in ropey second half performances in our recent fixtures against Clermont and Connacht. Need a much better display for this next 40.

Munster haven't taken their chances yet, but they have been in our 22 a fair bit already. We won't always be able to shut them out.

There is no reason he could not have played both matches. Irish rugby, and the individual provinces would be a lot better served with the best players playing the big matches rather than the “winnable” matches

Yes, luckily for Billy Burns, his forwards have been the losing of this game, otherwise people might be realising he isn't very good either.

Jesus.

I disagree. He was stepped very easily and left for dead by Prendergast. Jimmy O'Brien made a poor decision subsequently and left Prendergast isolated for the turnover.

One area Munster have definitely had the advantage is their territory management. Burns made some very good kicks finding a lot of space in Leinster's back field. They generated a few penalties from it and despite coming away with nothing, if they keep plugging away at that they'll definitely score.

That should be a leinster scrum now for the dummy

it’s two weeks to the next game and two more to the 6 nations. God help the poor lad having to play 4 matches in 7 weeks.