Munster Team Talk Thread - Beirne After Reading

I presume we'll go with the same 23 as last week - worry is that Benetton have a really strong set piece (scrum and lineout), and then pace to burn.

Id start Scannell for the scrum and hope we've figured out some form of lineout plan.

I think if our pack put in the same effort as the last day against Ulster we should beat them. If our lineout improves even 50% I'd be even more confident.

Treviso are no walkover though, no room for complacency at all. Should be a great atmosphere at this one, especially with a final send-off for the stalwarts.

I think if we improve the lineout even up to 75-80%, we'll win. Benetton have the backs to hurt us, but we've got plenty of gas with Abrahams, Nash and Kilgallen too. Farrell and Nank seemed to gel a bit more in the last couple of games too.

There'll have been an emotional element to last week, so hopefully that won't affect things and we'll get to the right pitch early.

This season, he's our top try scorer too.

I was concerned when Frisch left that we'd struggle to replace him, such was his importance to our attack, but if anything Farrell has been an upgrade, he's had an absolutely brilliant season. Two jackals and a couple of brilliant tackles as well last week on the other side of the ball.

You'd think he's a shoo-in for our player of the year, which is serious going when you consider the season Gavin Coombes has had.

Yeah Munster has been unlucky. Chris Farrell could have been that guy all along but he had to go through no fault of Munster.

Farrell has been class. One they van rely on to carry hard and make meters when they need it. He's so aggressive, great to watch.

Casey making his 100th Cap, that snuck up on me.

And Kleyn his 150th

Is Haley injured or dropped?

Benetton team named - as strong as available:

15 Rhyno Smith (74)
14 Ignacio Mendy (40)
13 Tommaso Menoncello (60)
12 Ignacio Brex (101)
11 Paolo Odogwu (19)
10 Jacob Umaga (56)
9 Alessandro Garbisi (68)
8 Lorenzo Cannone (56)
7 Manuel Zuliani (70)
6 Riccardo Favretto (56)
5 Federico Ruzza (132) (C)
4 Scott Scrafton (22)
3 Simone Ferrari (123)
2 Siua Maile (36)
1 Thomas Gallo (76)

A disposizione: 16 Bautista Bernasconi (40), 17 Mirco Spagnolo (33), 18 Tiziano Pasquali (140), 19 Niccolò Cannone (90), 20 Sebastian Negri (95), 21 Nicolò Casilio (2), 22 Tomas Albornoz (66), 23 Malakai Fekitoa (30).

A team named for connacht gsme tomorrow

Munster: Ben O’Connor; Liam Coombes, Fionn Gibbons, Gordon Wood, Andrew Smith; Tony Butler, Jake O’Riordan; Mark Donnelly, Jonathan Byrne, Luke Masters; Conor Ryan, Evan O’Connell; Michael Foy, Ruadhán Quinn (C), Brian Gleeson.

Replacements from: Arron Roulston, Daniel McCarthy, Edwin Edogbo, Joseph Coffer, Andrew O’Mahony, Tom Wood, Eoghan Smyth, Shay McCarthy, Patrick Campbell.

Strong team, and great to seen Edogbo back in a team.

Farrell is definitely worth a look at internationally, he's been brilliant. Interesting that Seán O'Brien, who has put in some super performances for us, isn't getting game-time on the wing. Kilgallon must be highly rated. He looked fantastic the other day.

Great to see Edogbo back in action. He'll be like a new signing for us next season, serious heft and grunt work that will free up the likes of Coombes to do his thing with ball in hand even more, Tom Aherne too. Is the younger brother injured or just not in the frame?

He's young enough to be a proper option at the next world cup, that's all that matters in the current cycle.