Munster Team Talk Thread - Beirne After Reading

Nanks on the bench, interesting. Coombes to come on also. Good impact off the bench overall, better than last year anyway. Pity Haley, Casey, Jager and Aherne aren't free.

Delighted for Edogbo, hope he goes well. Scrum a bit of a worry but it was always going to be with Jager gone.

Just saw the Leinster team, they've gone full bore. I'm an optimist at heart, if we cut out the mistakes of the last week and play more like in Round 1 I'd be hopeful. If we don't, it will be hard to snatch a win. Form goes out the windows for interpros though.

We'll be sending everyone down the 10 channel and they'll be pressurising our 9!

0 Limerick players in the 23….

8 from the Leinster schools system (one is Wycherly who is from Cork though)

4 from Cork Schools, 1 from Cork clubs

4 foreign

3 from non Cork Munster clubs

2 from Tipp Schools

1 Leinster clubs

What is going on with Limerick schools not producing players? Is it due to the period of success by the hurling team?

I was going to post this in the Ireland thread but it’s been such a mess the last few weeks I thought better of it.

Coming from a Leinster supporters perspective, 8/9 front rows in the Irish squad isn’t sustainable. The 50/50 call of Milne/McCarthy being Leinster vs Leinster pathway anyway. Arguably the starting Munster front row moving forward could be all from Leinster, with Connachts front row squad being a good chuck from Leinster aswell.

Is there any up and coming young front rows coming through at Munster? Find it crazy that for a club with such a massive history of excellent forwards and front rows that there seems to be nothing there.

I ask the above in good faith so just looking for an answer of if any good prospects are coming through and not looking for an argument about academies, Leinster private schools, IRFU bias or anything else that can derail a question like the above.

What a performance. Great defence work, over twice as many tackles as Leinster. Should be a good few Irish headaches after this. The Crowley question should now be considered settled and let him develop into a complete No 10 over the season.

Let that be the standard for the season. We have more in us. Hope the lads who went off injured will be ok and not serious. What was encouraging today was that we had a strong 23 and my god did we hunt them down. Our three centers were also magnificent.

A lovely win and beautiful performance. Didn't expect it but totally chuffed for everyone. The defensive work rate was immense, loved that. Got to make sure we beat Connacht next week and keep the momentum going.

Fineen's problem has always been silly penalties. When he doesn't do that he's very effective, does the grunt work that allows others. Can see him taking the Billy Holland role, leader of the pack on the dirty nights in Wales when the internationals are in camp