Munster v Edinburgh

[The Feral Goat]

Pack were superb especially backrowand Venter.

Scrum totally dominant yet no YC.

Attack in backs still meh, too many miss passes and going wide quickly.

But away win and try BP in Munster is a great result.

[Pitfitter1105]

Ref wasn’t bad just no guts to yellow a Munster pack, cheers guys, happy supporters tonight.

[liveinhope]

Very disappointing though to concede the late try and two BP's for the. Should have extended the lead earlier when had a few visits to Munster 22.
Great to see Muncaster and Bradbury back and showing their worth.And a pretty good showing from Ross Thomson.
Can theyn repeat at Benetton though? Vital fixture that one.

[doedin]

Well that was a surprise, a pleasant surprise! I will have a very small portion of humble pie for lunch. I agree with previous comments, we out Munstered Munster with our pack dominant particularly in the scrum. Venter was a beast and dominated both their tight heads, he must be best scrummaging LH in Scotland at the moment. It was good to see Bradbury, he is looking a bit fitter and leaner, and Muncaster running riot all night long. However our backs continue to stutter and Thompson struggled all night long sitting far too deep in the pocket, too slow of thought and getting caught with ball or charged down far too often. As a result our back line struggled all night to get attacks going and we were caught too often behind the gain line. Thompson isnt the option going forward I am afraid.

We also have to be honest and recognize that Munster were awful, as bad as we were against Zebra last week. We caught them on a very bad night and they look badly in need of a new coach for some direction. However a win is a badly needed win!

[joe soap]

We also have to be honest and recognize that Munster were awful, as bad as we were against Zebra last week. However a win is a badly needed win!

Munster were worse, much worse. And still conceded 4 tries to them. A nice suprise win but letting in 4 against a rabble inexcusable

[The Feral Goat]

Part of Munster being awful was our pack allowing them zero platform though, scrum and breakdown we dominated and had good pressure on their lineout. Their backs were on the backfoot most of the match.

That was an aggressive pack performance from the cockerill days and needs to be delivered week in week out.

[joe soap]

Part of Munster being awful was our pack allowing them zero platform though, scrum and breakdown we dominated and had good pressure on their lineout. Their backs were on the backfoot most of the match.

That was an aggressive pack performance from the cockerill days and needs to be delivered week in week out.

tries came from Munster errors and missed tackles mainly
Set scrum very dominant I agree and the hunners of scrum pens gave good field position

And despite all that gave up 4 tries to a rabble, that for me is the biggest take away

[Castlecannon]

Ok probably the weakest and least organised Munster side played in recent memory but it’s pleasing nevertheless to win away in Cork and it does confidence no harm. Bradbury and Muncaster were in roaring form and hopefully they will take that with them into the rest of the season .

[dolf_lundgren]

Always two sides in each game, just as Zebre played well and made us look like a rabble, it was simialr against Munster. You can only beat what is in front on you and we did that comfortably.

We need to deliver that week in week out though, we have all seen this film before where we have a big game then sink back to mediocre the following weeks.

Signs of improvement though and the hunger we have all been questioning. The problem we have is that with previous performances, the best we can now realistically achieve is the minimum requirement of top 8 ad that is far from certain.

[The Feral Goat]

I appreciate the league is very tight (9 points between 4th and 15th) but of the games left to play only the Sharks are currently above us in the league so top 8 is almost entirely in our own hands somehow. Only Glasgow have more BPs than us. The players have to go out and perform* with the aggression we saw on Saturday

Benetton away is massive and will be interesting to see what 6N players both teams make available.

Benetton (A)
Dragons (H)
Sharks (H)
Zebre (A)
Connacht (A)
Ulster (H)**

*We of course have the ability to lose all remaining games with spectacular implosions.
**I would hate to go into the Ulster game needing to get a any number of points to make the playoffs, fairly confident we would LawrenceBryce it up probably last play

[bignose]

**I would hate to go into the Ulster game needing to get a any number of points to make the playoffs, fairly confident we would LawrenceBryce it up probably last play

It is the Scottish way.

[liveinhope]

I wonder if we will see some of the 6N players included in the trip to Benetton (who may do likewise) and then rested the next weekend for the home game against Dragons?