Munster Team Talk Thread - Beirne After Reading

Would you expect any current player to come out publicly to back him after he was gone tho, even if they were in favour of him staying?

I wouldn’t for fairly obvious reasons.

Not sure what your point is here but it's interesting that you see the players as the problem rather than Rowntree or Munster management.

It was widely reported that players' dissatisfaction with Rowntree and his broken relationship with senior players is exactly what led to his removal. So yes, I'm guessing they did indeed raise it with club hierarchy.

Yeah good man Conor, easy to write it after the event to get some traction for book sales.

He's hardly going to write a tell-all book while still playing.

Murray’s book was blandness personified, but no worse than any of the other rugby autobiographies we’ve been “treated” to over the years. I think it’s a tie for me between Dricco’s and ROG’s for the worst I’ve read in recent years, but Willie John McBride’s is the worst I’ve ever read. The problem with almost all recent rugby books is you can tell the players are far too concerned with future off-field earning opportunities to say anything remotely controversial, and for similar reasons there’s a strong reluctance to offer anything but the mildest criticism of former colleagues, management, clubs etc.

Eddie O’Sullivan’s book is if nothing else, brutally honest, and one of the better rugby books I’ve read.

I have heard of this personal issue from someone very close to the squad.

I heard him give an after dinner speech many years ago and he was engaging. His autobiography however is atrociously bad.

We are absolutely useless in every facet of the game. So fed up this

Its just a terrible squad lads. Cant handle any level of injury stress. Not enough talent being brought through. Hierarchy and structural issues have let all other provinces move away.