Munster Team Talk Thread - Beirne After Reading

I wonder is Andy Farrell watching, probably not , but Playing a SA team with a much better scrum and lineout and Munster are still winning, playing the game in the areas they can win it in. 

Andy could learn a lot from this

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2 big games coming up now. The champions cup will tell us where this team is going!! The pairc will be rocking in 2 weeks time, can't wait!! You can't win them all, that's a fact in all league type games!

disappointing result. Took the foot off the das at ~30min. Then when the stormers made the bulk changes at 45min we were blown away up front.

Eh. No, he learned little. Aherne worth a shot. But most of us knew that anyway. Once the Stormers ramped up their intensity the scrum was done in the second half.

The game of rugby is in trouble. The scrum is no longer a contest for possession, it's just a way to milk penalties now. The feed needs to be refereed properly, make the hookers actually hook the ball FFS. Better off playing 3 props now as there is no need for a hooker. The TMO also is gone too far, every half call is scrutinised to the nth degree.

But on the bright side this is a team that can now compete with the top teams. Playing great rugby. But we are short a few too players in the front row. Against these huge SA packs we have no scrum. Lineout was very good but we had no scrum. Very reminiscent of the Ireland v SA game.

Got to keep playing Tom Aherne at 4. He was outstanding tonight. Coombes was great too until his brain fart. Crowley didn't have a great game. Still has a way to go. Looking forward to the next 2 CC games though. Need a proper TH lock playing from now on. Fineen is an honest pro but agaisnt these huge packs he's not at the races. Need Edogbo or Kleyn playing all these games from now on.

I wouldn’t be so critical of Crowley, he was trying to spread the ball wide and get to the space on the fringes a lot, higher risk higher reward and it opened up space in the middle that Beirne made pay. He has legitimate options outside him in Farrell and Abhrams, if anything nanks was quiet tonight.

His knock on for the disallowed try was unlucky and that play could have been the winning of the game. Not a complete performance from Crowley but he did well.

Needed to control the game better though in the 2nd half. We had their number in the lineout with Tom Aherne being a constant threat on their throw. Once we were up at HT we needed to kick the corners a la prime O'Gara. Make them beat us, pin them in and make them play from their own half. He didn't do that. In fact it's an issue with the national team too. We aren't tactically savvy enough at half back.

To be honest I'm so sick of SA rugby over these last 7 days! Kleyn away to play some mockey-ah international going over to drum an embarrassing Wales side.

Yea, fair point he had a very good chance of a 50/22 at one stage and didn’t kick it properly.

More team need to take a page out of George fords book and be quick to take a DG of 4/5 phases in the opposition 22 isn’t going anywhere. Keep the scoreboard going.