Munster Team Talk Thread - Beirne After Reading

Medical joker. I can't imagine they'd have signed that crock killer on again unless they had no choice. And he has proven to be a crock. Who is that benefitting?

Just let them sign a hooker and a loosehead. No way would they have signed abrahams as a niq if they could have addressed the ten year old problem in front row.

Policy starts next season but they haven't been allowed sign a front row in years and years

Great atmosphere pre match!! The crowd tried their best. Munster just rudderless and wherever the new coach comes from it MUST NOT BE FROM THE STATUS QUO that's there already

Donnacha touted Declan Kidney, would be my choice also

Same thing ya.

You've taken my points where I said Slimani was great this eve and that the irfu policy re niq props is nonsensical (both the new one and nucifora not sanctioning) and replied extremely defensively about how great the irfu are and how they have treated everyone so well and definitely not treated leinster any better.

IIl repeat myself - no issue with niq front rows for any province. Incoming ban is stupid. Leinster (or indeed any province) having the leeway to sign a niq front row by nucifora while munster were being denied by the irfu for front row position is something i do not agree with. I dont think it makes a blind bit of difference to lads development being blocked. No coincidence that roman salanoa was available for the run in when we won the urc. You need ballast and replacement ballast to win trophies generally.

Your points about prior players are irrelevant in the context. You are talking about lads signed in 2016 or earlier. Bj Botha type signing now at loosehead for Munster would be class. Same for hooker.

I won't be saying anymore on it as it's been talked about enough.

Absolutely agree on pillar D. Thought it cost two tries but to be fair, on vdf try in 2nd half, kelleher clearly takes out the pillar.

First try was criminal though

And the solution going forward is??

Equally the front NIQ ban from nxt year is not viable either

Actually has that been set in stone re NiQ front rows?

We already have a DOR in Costello

It looks like Mike P is getting it, if that's the case then just announce it & move on

Rowntree was v old school by my contacts, flogged in training & then made a shambles of the POM contract, that caused a big divide.

Add on the car crash of injuries again this season & you end up with a straw that breaks the camels back situation on the trip to SA.

How can any of this management get the full time job

How stuck for money are Munster?

Never mind the extensions handed out.

Munster have had plenty of signings in the last 10-12 years not just front row but in general.

They have and no one is disputing that.

But no one can convince me that sanctioning an NIQ signing in Abrahams, say, is more beneficial to either Munster or Ireland than an NIQ front-row would’ve been. That’s exactly the point.

Sorry - did youse not get an SA prop? While Ulster had to get Corrie Barrett?

reality is that Ireland will remain a quarter final or less RwC team while pursing a Leinster first strategy.