The I'll Start a Munster Thread Before ... Thread

[BBD]

Between your teeth?

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Jack O'D MOTM and ROM in for the 6th try at the death. Turned out a bit like Linda Lusardi's baps at the death.

[SerjeantWildgoose]

How we're trotting in within 2 points of them, I don't know. We spent 35 minutes clinging on to their shadows. Ospreys have been superb; we've been shyte enough.

[SerjeantWildgoose]

That is a huge win - and I've no idea how we dogged it out. The stats will look hideous.

[BBD]

Yep, our worst first 20 all season, the Ospreys looked brilliant on the front foot, then when that third try got pulled back for a forward pass they just fell away and we were clinical with our only couple of chances
Second half we had them under the cash and just kept at them. Thought we'd scored a minute too soon though!

[paddy no 11]

Grat win, ROM will be slaughtered in the defensive review but he's a good one. Someone will really have to go some to beat us in the HCUP

[hellovating]

Munster: Jaco Taute; Darren Sweetnam, Francis Saili, Dan Goggin, Ronan O'Mahony; Tyler Bleyendaal Capt., Duncan Williams; Dave Kilcoyne, Rhys Marshall, Stephen Archer; Dave Foley, Billy Holland; Dave O'Callaghan, Tommy O'Donnell, Conor Oliver.

Replacements: Kevin O'Byrne, Peter McCabe, Brian Scott, Darren O'Shea, Fineen Wycherley, Abrie Griesel, Ian Keatley, Andrew Conway.

jacko, scannell, copeland all injured. oliver at 8 will be interesting. he'll be a feckin small 8.

[SerjeantWildgoose]

2nd week running that we've seen the best and the worst of our 2nd string. Taking nothing away from Scarlets who were good value for their win, but that 3rd quarter from Munster was abysmal. I can only think that they thought they had the game wrapped up - criminal given the obvious quality of this Scarlets side. So much for Fortress Thomond.

[BBD]

I wasn't able to see the game, but to concede 24 unanswered points in the second half is abysmal
Well done to the Scarlets for fighting back and teaching us a lesson (hopefully)

[SerjeantWildgoose]

It was quite a spanking in the 2nd half. On 30 minutes we were pushing for a BP try and it and the win seemed a mere matter of time. By the time Scarlets ran their first try in, it looked inevitable that we'd throw the game. That we were so dire in the 2nd half should not detract from the Scarlets performance, which was superb. They made us look Italian!

[Buggaluggs]

It was quite a spanking in the 2nd half. On 30 minutes we were pushing for a BP try and it and the win seemed a mere matter of time. By the time Scarlets ran their first try in, it looked inevitable that we'd throw the game. That we were so dire in the 2nd half should not detract from the Scarlets performance, which was superb. They made us look Italian!

We made you ugly fecks look good looking?

[SerjeantWildgoose]

It was quite a spanking in the 2nd half. On 30 minutes we were pushing for a BP try and it and the win seemed a mere matter of time. By the time Scarlets ran their first try in, it looked inevitable that we'd throw the game. That we were so dire in the 2nd half should not detract from the Scarlets performance, which was superb. They made us look Italian!

We made you ugly fecks look good looking?

Ah now, hey! We're feckin' gorgeous looking, so we are!

[hellovating]

here we go....

i'd go with

killer, scannell, ryan
ryan, holland
POM(c), stander, tommy
murray, bleyendaal
scannell, taute
earls, zebo, sweetnam

marshall, cronin, archer, DOC, JOD, williams, o'mahony, conway

rory covers 10. keith covers midfield. hard to imagine any changes to the pack but the bench cover will be interesting. too soon for deysel?

we're missing sherry, chisholm, foley, kleyn, toma, keatley and saili from consideration

[francoisfou]

The Toulouse team hasn't been announced yet, but whoever plays, they're going to be in for a pasting.
This is their worst season since time began - currently lying 10th in the Top14 and will miss the top 4 play-offs for the first time in 41 years along with next season's European Cup (unless they win this year's!!!)

[SerjeantWildgoose]

here we go....

i'd go with

killer, scannell, ryan
ryan, holland
POM(c), stander, tommy
murray, bleyendaal
scannell, taute
earls, zebo, sweetnam

marshall, cronin, archer, DOC, JOD, williams, o'mahony, conway

rory covers 10. keith covers midfield. hard to imagine any changes to the pack but the bench cover will be interesting. too soon for deysel?

we're missing sherry, chisholm, foley, kleyn, toma, keatley and saili from consideration

Francis fit enough to take the bench. Hard on ROM who I think is having a blinding season, but that is as strong a 23 as we've put out for some seasons and with twenty six and a heff thousand of us in song, I hope it should be enough.

I should be more confident; I wish I was brimming with it, but quarter finals are gut-knotting things, so they are. And look at the Toulouse line-up FFS! They might be having a crap aul run of it in their league, but that is a potent bunch of big-names.

Baille, Ghiraldini, Census J
Mrs Gray's lankier but not quite as good son, Maestri
Terry Dosy-twat, Obscura camera, Francois Cros
Bezy, Dozen
Flowery-Fritz, Gael Fuckyou
Perez, Huge-get, Bilbo Bagins

Marchon, Steempunk, Agadoo-degheri, Mrs Grey's Aussie love child, Paula Fasasasasasasasasaelelelele, Joe Tekori, Some random Kiwi, Arty Goodstuff

[francoisfou]

here we go....

i'd go with

killer, scannell, ryan
ryan, holland
POM(c), stander, tommy
murray, bleyendaal
scannell, taute
earls, zebo, sweetnam

marshall, cronin, archer, DOC, JOD, williams, o'mahony, conway

rory covers 10. keith covers midfield. hard to imagine any changes to the pack but the bench cover will be interesting. too soon for deysel?

we're missing sherry, chisholm, foley, kleyn, toma, keatley and saili from consideration

Francis fit enough to take the bench. Hard on ROM who I think is having a blinding season, but that is as strong a 23 as we've put out for some seasons and with twenty six and a heff thousand of us in song, I hope it should be enough.

I should be more confident; I wish I was brimming with it, but quarter finals are gut-knotting things, so they are. And look at the Toulouse line-up FFS! They might be having a crap aul run of it in their league, but that is a potent bunch of big-names.

Baille, Ghiraldini, Census J
Mrs Gray's lankier but not quite as good son, Maestri
Terry Dosy-twat, Obscura camera, Francois Cros
Bezy, Dozen
Flowery-Fritz, Gael Fuckyou
Perez, Huge-get, Bilbo Bagins

Marchon, Steempunk, Agadoo-degheri, Mrs Grey's Aussie love child, Paula Fasasasasasasasasaelelelele, Joe Tekori, Some random Kiwi, Arty Goodstuff

Any fecker who calls Thierry Dusautoir Terry Dosy-Twat will incur the wrath of yours truly! I would have thought Giraldini could have been the butt of your humour, but wtf!
This Toulouse line-up looks good on paper, except Doussain (who could do with a couple of seasons in Ireland) and shouldn't be within 1000km of the side, but they ain't got the balls to beat your boys. So Serj, you can sleep soundly tonight with the knowledge that your boys are home and dry.
So having said that ................. Toulouse by 3 and to go on and win a 5th European Cup!

Edit - and that random kiwi can feck off back from whence he came (wherever that was). But then again, he's off to Toulon next season to top up his pension.

[SerjeantWildgoose]

Got to admit, Frankie, I think Tel is one of the best back rows to ever grace the jersey and I can't see how a team with him, Maestri, Fritz, Ficou, Huget and Medard is struggling - but then I see Census Johnston starting and it all makes sense.

[francoisfou]

Got to admit, Frankie, I think Tel is one of the best back rows to ever grace the jersey and I can't see how a team with him, Maestri, Fritz, Ficou, Huget and Medard is struggling - but then I see Census Johnston starting and it all makes sense.

Y'aul creep!!!
The problem lies not with the players but with the coaches. Ugo Mola (now there's a name you can tinker with!) was on a hiding to nothing following Guy Novès and will surely be packing his bag at the end of the season, and hopefully he'll take that little tw@t Jean-Baptiste Ellisalde, the so-called backs coach with him. However, the ligind William "la bûche" Servat, must stay!
Oh, and Sends us Loopy Johnson can go and play for Ulshter!

[SerjeantWildgoose]

That was the true measure of the man, Frankie. To stand there with a chunk out of his face and on the back of a thumping and just sing the praises of the 'Munstermen'. Thierry is simply class and as Quinny says, one of the greatest to ever play the game.

[francoisfou]

Can't argue with that!

[paddy no 11]

Toulouse are awful

Limerick are going the right way under Kiely, hannon and hegarty could be very good (tough cork are meh too)

What size hurley would Big Joe Tekori take?

[SerjeantWildgoose]

I'd say that he'd take the same measuring technique as any of us; 'course there wouldn't be many ash trees tall enough to craft him a good, lively shaft with a club of a bas on it.

Then again, you could just give him Dinny and tell him to sit and watch.

[paddy no 11]

Another hard win Saturday, we're very tough to beat. Will that be enough against sarries, do we have enough physique to hang in there when they get rumbling and enough behind the pack to use the ball? Deysel could be a big asset for the run in, we'll need to take our chances and catch sarries on an off day

[Eugene Wrayburn]

I think you're better than you suggest. You're also perfectly suited to coping with the way they strangle the game.

[hellovating]

Limerick are going the right way under Kiely, hannon and hegarty could be very good (tough cork are meh too)

really?