by dolf_lundgren on Fri Feb 03, 2017 10:49 pm
Tovey was very poor, the worst I have seen him.
The forwards stuck to the task well, but they were knackered. Munster were being Munster and going off their feet and taking men out all over the place so it takes it out of forwards. We really shoudl have used our bench. It is really not on to flog a 20 yr old prop like that, fair enough a grizzly older player but not a youngster. No idea what is going on with Beavon but it is a waste of time him being there, they should just pay up his contract andlet him get on with his life, if I was him I would be raging and tell them to stick it.
is Ritchie injured? Given the opposition, the conditions and the fact Hardie was never going to play 80mins it would have made more sense to have him on the bench rather than Mata, not his sort of game at all.
I dont think the centres did a lot wrong, they didnt get much ball and what they did was poor, just not a night for them. I would also dispute that it was anything like a 3rd choice Munster team, a fair few second choice players but not that poor a team, given our injuries etc probably not much in it. They still had an AB, a Saffer international a a heap of Irish squad players.