Munster Team Talk Thread - Beirne After Reading

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Serious 80 minutes from Gavin "Not Dynamic Enough" Coombes

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Is he a better player than Doris or Conan though? Ireland management not going to pick three 8s in a squad.
He’s a good player alright, just not as good as the other 2.

I don't you'll find many saying that Coombes lacks the dynamism to be extremely effective in home games against the Scarlets.

Conan is a far better player then Coombes. Have you not seen his performances for Ireland in the last 2 weeks

I think the management need to keep 2 out of Coombes / Hodnett / Gleeson on the field together. Probably don’t have the balance with all 3, but when they were all out the in the second half Munster we’re getting over the gainline at will. Even if it means Gleeson at 6, or Coombes in the row to finish the game, need to keep power on the field.

Coombes has been in national squads in the past. Hasn't done enough to get ahead of Doris (and Conan amongst others) to get picked for Ireland simply because he isn't good enough compared to those picked ahead of him at #8 in particular.

It's the same on munsterfans. It's all a conspiracy isn't it, it's all the IRFUs fault (or the D4 media) that Munster, for a long time, weren't producing players and are now crying over the current make up of the national team because another province got their **** together way back when and are producing players.

If Coombes was better then Doris/Conan he would be getting picked. He isn't, so he isn't.

As for the poor play, according to you, and many other Munster fans these players should be getting national selection yet one of your former players on national TV called the first half the worst he has ever seen. But yeah some random lad sayong the same thing on boards is the problem.

I'd agree with that. I'd have Coombes starting at 8 with Hodnett beside him and Gleeson on the bench. When Gleeson is brought on Coombes could switch to lock as he's just as effective there.

I think Kendellen starts because he's a spoiler. He turns every opposition breakdown into a mess and tackles all day. However, he's not the most explosive carrier. In that sense he's probably better as a starter than coming off the bench although I'd still have Hodnett as our best 7 and on from the first minute if it were my choice.

Rory Scannell is there out of necessity and wouldn't be starting but for injuries. A midfield of him and Burns is never going to do too much damage. He's quite good defensively but he's getting on now. Thankfully we've done some decent recruiting in that department and we have a few academy lads coming along at centre as well.

Agreed on Coombes. His carrying tonight was excellent. So too were his hands. He had a couple of lovely out the back passes after tying up two or three defenders. We'd not have had the bonus point without him this evening. We might not even have gotten the win.

Connacht doing us a good favour tonight. Will need a good run of form to crack the top 4. Think Bulls have a tougher schedule than Sharks, and we play them later this season at home.

Gavin Coombes called up to the irish 40 man training camp..

true, except for leinster it is a very believable league table.