Munster Team Talk Thread - Snymans are(n't) Forever

I remember seeing him and hearing his name in September 1997 when I started in CBC in cork and he was involved helping the school. He seemed like a decent guy and him and Greg ahern were running the senior cup team in Christians for the majority of my six years there.

Officials for our game on Friday evening v Zebre

Zebre vs Munster at Stadio Giovanni Mari, Legnano
Referee: Dan Jones (Wales)
Assistant referees: Manuel Bottino (Italy), Rhys Jones (Wales)
Television match official: Sean Brickell (Wales)

yerrahbah wrote: »

Players who are fit and didn't play against the Kings so could be in line to feature against Zebre

L.O'Connor
Barron
Archer
O'Shea
Oliver
O'Sullivan
O'Donnell
Casey
Arnold
Sweetnam
L.Coombes
Wooton

I wouldnt expect they would all be involved. I reckon we will lose JOD/Farrell from last week.

Wont see wholesale changes really

https://www.munsterrugby.ie/2020/02/20/munster-trio-sign-contract-extensions/

Conway: 3 year deal
Loughman: 2 year deal
Holland: 1 year deal

Delighted for Billy Holland. Terrific player.

We badly need to grow a, mad monster of a Limerick tighthead prop...

Burkie1203 wrote: »

Kilcoyne and KOB the only 2 who stay from that list?

One of Parker or Scott will stay, probably Parker given Scott's injuries.

Caranica wrote: »

Stunning but he's a very recent convert from back 3 to second row (2 years afaik) rather than being a freak

Did he have a growth spurt? :pac: strange that he’d be left playing back three being that big.

https://www.munsterrugby.ie/2019/01/17/video-introducing-the-academy-thomas-ahern/

Interview on Munster site from January 2019. He says he changed "last year" but also early 2017. They talked a lot about it when he scored that wonder try for Ireland v Scotland the first weekend of the under 20s, after a blistering run down the field. I'm sure they said 2018 which would tie in with "last year".

yerrahbah wrote: »

12 games played so far this season
Munster have used 46 players
Kevin O’Byrne and Archer have played all 12 games
Rory Scannell, JJH and JO’D have played in 11 games
In terms on minutes played Rory Scannell is top with 766 minutes, JO’D with 717, Haley with 705,
Holland with 674 and JJH with 648

30 trys with 20 different try scorers
15 trys from the forwards and 15 from the backs
Botha, Mathewson and Conway all have three each

Three yellow cards
Haley, Cronin, Marshall.
One Red Card
Botha

Players yet to feature:

Carbery, Sean O'Connor, Parker, Scott.

Players who have since left the club, Mathewson and Holloway
Player Mins played after 12 games Minutes in the last 6 games
R.Scannell 766 326
JOD 717 303
Haley 705 320
Holland 674 338
JJH 648 339
Archer 599 294
S. Daly 538 138
Botha 494 138
C. Farrell 480 400
Goggin 475 187
Stander 455 389
TOD 452 194
Whycherly 438 147
KOB 425 135
J Loughman 381 145
J Cronin 373 202
Conway 363 283
J. Kleyn 355 307
N. Scannell 343 277
TB 340 80
C. Nash 335 160
POM 320 240
Earls 320 320
C. Murray 304 280
Alby M 262 33
Sweetnam 240 0
Cloete 235 87
J. Ryan 207 154
Nick McC 202 78
LOC 192 88
Darren O'Shea 191 61
S. Arnold 179 93
R. Marshall 178 68
L. Coombes 177 80
Beirne 159 159
Knox 123 32
Wooton 120 80
N.Cronin 116 25
Holloway 98 9
C. Casey 76 64
JOS 66 0
Healy 61 61
Kilcoyne 55 55
Oliver 37 15
G. Coombes 34 9
Barron 19 0

18 games played so far this season
Munster have used 49 players
Kevin O’Byrne and Rory Scannell have played in 17 games of those games
With Archer, JO’D and JJH 16 playing in 16 of those games
In terms on minutes played Rory Scannell is top with 1188 minutes, JO’D with 1109, Haley with 1091, JJH with 1000 and Holland with 980

52 trys with 27 different try scorers
24 trys from the forwards and 28 from the backs
Botha has 6 tries, JO’D, Daly and Conway all have 4 tries

Four yellow cards
Haley, Cronin, Marshall, Cloete
One Red Card
Botha

Players yet to feature:

Sean O'Connor, Parker, Scott.

Players who have left the club: Mathewson and Holloway

Player Mins played after 6 games Mins played after 12 games Mins played after 18 games
R.Scannell 440 766 1188
JOD 414 717 1109
Haley 385 705 1091
JJH 309 648 1000
Holland 336 674 980
Archer 305 599 803
S. Daly 400 538 780
Whycherly 291 438 774
Goggin 288 475 770
Botha 356 494 717
C. Farrell 80 480 640
N. Scannell 66 343 639
Stander 66 455 615
KOB 290 425 594
C. Nash 175 335 555
TOD 258 452 541
POM 80 320 540
J Loughman 236 381 536
C. Murray 24 304 510
Conway 80 363 493
S. Arnold 86 179 482
J Cronin 171 373 480
Earls 0 320 480
J. Kleyn 48 355 425
Cloete 148 235 410
J. Ryan 53 207 392
TB 260 340 340
Darren O'Shea 130 191 326
Sweetnam 240 240 315
Nick McC 124 202 291
Kilcoyne 0 55 273
Alby M 229 262 262
N.Cronin 91 116 232
JOS 66 66 217
Knox 91 123 214
LOC 104 192 192
R. Marshall 110 178 178
L. Coombes 97 177 177
Beirne 0 159 159
C. Casey 12 76 145
G. Coombes 25 34 124
Wooton 40 120 120
Carbery 0 0 104
Holloway 89 98 98
Healy 0 61 97
Hodnett 0 0 63
Oliver 22 37 37
Barron 19 19 34
Flannery 0 0 5

Caranica wrote: »

Surprised that Alby hasn't been picked up by another club yet

Ulster bound apparently