Munster Team Talk Thread - Beirne After Reading

Fully agree with this on both counts.

Also, Scannell is a strong scrummaging hooker.

I think the assistant refs are no more assisting the ref. The name change from touch judge was just that. Like all they do is look across the line. They should be taking pressure off the ref who is looking for loads of things at once. Just police the offside line. I was at the game, and the amount of times sarries were offside was incredible. Fair play to them, of course you are going to keep doing it when not being pinged.

Just on Daly also, his positioning and decision making in defence under pressure was extremely good last night. One example was when sarries had a break in the second half and I think it was haley was struggling to get across, daly was watching the last man but with some really spot on positioning and movement, managed to slow the sarries carrier, allowing haley to make the tackle, while daly also kept his own man under tabs. It was perfectly done and something I'm not sure gets picked up on tv.

Niall Scan is a level above Rory in fairness. He has a decent number of Ireland caps to his name and deservedly so. Strong scrummager, good worker and I feel more confident about our lineout when he's throwing than I do with Barron. He's a nuts and bolts hooker, but a fine one at that. Still has plenty to offer us

Munster's bench outperformed Sarries'. Itoje took early retirement after his line break early on. Munster's D did enough, but will need to get better as they progress.

Great win.

The nucleus of a great team is still there! Great to see Murray back, the guy has just so much experience and almost forgotten about! I thought Crowley played well, his confidence is coming back.

For anyone to scoff at the Munster Coach role and that it's beneath them, shame on you! This team has and always will be a top team in Europe. However our fan base is a country mile ahead of them all!!

Maybe you think this is a dig at O Gara. It's not, it's a dig at all ex players who for some strange reason think Munster is beneath them. What's O Connell doing?? Second fiddle to the Irish mgmt. Surely the man being a Stalwart for Munster can see this job is perfect for him! Let's face it Rog and O Connell owe Munster nothing, we are forever in their debt. But OMG the Munster role is such a perfect fit for either of them!!

I wouldn't want POC near the munster job tbh - he has had limited exposure to rugby coaching and his area of remit with Ireland has been creaking. ROG is a whole different story, but he has been honest with his viewpoint and what he wants in his career - I fully respect that.

You are spot on re POC.

RE Rog I watched both the Munster match and La Rochelle match. Sorry but there's no contest here the Munster match oozed blood from the crowd. Its an Irish thing no French side would compete!!

I remember O Gara giving an interview one time more or less indicating that playing for Munster way surpassed the Irish Jersey. All I'm saying is respect that same Jersey

I know.It's just a general observation that our second tier of player need to be of a higher quality-easier said than done of course.

Hopefully we're going in the right direction with the Edogbos,Brian Gleeson,Quin,O'Connell etc,-I'm confident their ceiling could be quite high.

I's say have a look over on MFs or the Saints fans site for a ticket. If it's not too much hassle I'd nearly travel and try pick up a ticket over there.

Yeah loved it! Kick was perfect and those passes were crisp.

Saracens players scrambling and then skittling into themselves!

Williams tap tackle was a great effort and the Hodnett tumble try finish was terrifically entertaining.

Just to add it was great to see Munster score a try like that.

Didn't need set-piece. Good kicking. Good chasing. Good ruck speed. Good shape and organisation. Good hands (excl Hayley!) and a great finish.

A reasonable squad update for once.

On the injury front, Conor Murray (elbow), Jack O’Donoghue (shoulder) and Diarmuid Barron (shoulder) all made successful returns against Saracens and came through the game with no issues.

Diarmuid Kilgallen (wrist) also trained fully last week with no issues.

Shane Daly failed a HIA on Saturday evening and will enter the graduated return-to-play protocols.

Peter O’Mahony (calf contusion) will increase his training load and a decision on his availability will be made later in the week.

Mark Donnelly has recovered from the ankle injury he sustained on Emerging Ireland duty and returns to full training this week.

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Kilgallen (or McCarthy) my come straight into the 15 if Daly doesn't make it through RTP protocols.

Daly didn't have his best game for us on Saturday but he'll be a huge loss if not available to us.