Munster V Edinburgh - GPro 12 Round 1

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Munster V Edinburgh

Friday 5th September 2014
KO 19:35
Thomond Park

Referee: Leighton Hodges (WRU, 41st competition game)
Assistant Referees: Nigel Correll, John Carvill (both IRFU)
Citing Commissioner: Eddie Walsh (IRFU)
TMO: Jude Quinn (IRFU)
Live on TG4 / BBA ALBA

23 Wins 6
75 Tries 42
696 Points 443
27 Average age 26

Results last year:

Munster 34 - Edinburgh 23
Ednburgh 12 - Munster 55

Pre Season form:

Munster 17 - London Irish 5
Gloucester 45 - Munster 8

Edinburgh 10 - Leicester 11
Newcastle 15 - Edinburgh 21

Teams:

Munster
  
15 Ronan O'Mahony
14 Andrew Conway
13 Johne Murphy
12 Andrew Smith
11 Simon Zebo
10 Ian Keatley
9 Duncan Williams

1 John Ryan
2 Kevin O'Byrne
3 BJ Botha
4 Donncha O'Callaghan
5 Billy Holland
6 CJ Stander
7 Sean Dougall
8 Shane Buckley

16 Duncan Casey
17 Alan Cotter
18 Stephen Archer
19 Dave Foley
20 Tommy O'Donnell
21 Cathal Sheridan
22 Johnny Holland
23 Ivan Dineen

Edinburgh
 
15 Jack Cuthbert
14 Dougie Fife
13 Sam Beard
12 Andries Strauss
11 Tim Visser

10 Greig Tonks
9 Sean Kennedy

1 Alasdair Dickinson
2 Ross Ford (Captain)
3 John Andress
4 Fraser McKenzie
5 Ollie Atkins
6 Tomas Leonardi
7 Hamish Watson
8 Cornell Du Preez

16 James Hilterbrand
17 Rory Sutherland
18 W P Nel
19 Ben Toolis
20 Mike Coman
21 Sam Hidalgo-Clyne
22 Nick McLennan
23 Phil Burleigh

That yellow has galvanised Munster - they definitely don't deserve to be going into the lead at half time.

Stupid from Leonardi!

That was a poor kick as well. Just need to run down the half now, they deserve to be in the lead.

Keatley agrees that they don't deserve to go in ahead!

Lovely finish by Visser, but that looked forward!

Miles forward!

And by some distance!

Jez that was a risky pass. I hope it was not forward. Viss thought it was forward!

9-5 HT - definitely deserved

"Great feed by the quarterback & Visser touches down for the Edinburgh Red Skins"

3 out of 4 for Heathcote. 80% successful kicks wins you games, almost there!

I bet Foley will be giving Munster a right kick up the arse at half time!

BigGee wrote:Jez that was a risky pass. I hope it was not forward. Viss thought it was forward!

NFL scouts were looking interested

To be honest any other than a win here and Edinburgh should be disappointed. This is not Munster and they are there for the taking unless they can find another few gears in the second half. If Edinburgh had taken their chances then it would have been done and dusted by now.

That's the only worry really, they did not take them!

Notch wrote:

BigGee wrote:Jez that was a risky pass. I hope it was not forward. Viss thought it was forward!

NFL scouts were looking interested

I was more worried about the interception when I first saw it, but on second look it was not even close!

Absolutely - there's never been a better chance to beat Munster away.

Ohhh, foul play by DOC? If that's a kick to the head that's got to be a red card surely?

Irish TMO chanceof card. zero

Would it be cynical of me to suggest that would have been a yellow if it was Edinburgh 4??

Hard to judge what we haven't seen. But excessive use of the boot and contact with an opposing players head surely has to be a card?

Typical Irish TMO...

Poor from Kennedy there, but he didn't have many options.

If we can stay on top and get back to XV we've got a great chance.

Its fair to say that Munster have had a very easy ride from Hodges and crew. Mainly in the scrums.

Hard to comment on the DOC incident really.

Yessss Big Jack!!!!!

Cuthbert.....

Great try Jack Cuthbert! I was about to shout don't kick!

Oh holy moly.

True Edinburgh style we Baws up the restart!

I love the 45 degrees rule now!

Destroyed the Munster scrum again

Then made a Horlicks of getting our own ball away!

Poor game management though - we pushed it too far and made life difficult

The Edinburgh defence is just unrecognisable from last year, ever so impressive. Munster playing better now though, the half time rocket has done the trick. Need to play smart and not in our half!

Kennedy hasn't had a great game.

Would be gutting if we lose this game - momentum Munster

What a jammy roly poly

Needless from Cuthbert!

Basic mistake from Cuthbert and suddenly we're on our own line

Very lucky not to be a yellow

That was a turnover not a penalty!

Arghhhhh, that familiar feeling of panic setting in.
C'mon Edinburgh!!!

I'm going to disagree with you RDW - Coman was the primary tackler, and for the life of me I can't see what he has done wrong there.

Hurray! It's Inigo Montoya-Clyne

One point game. Tense last 10 minutes - real shame they got lucky with the clearance - we need to get that sustained pressure back now.

One point game now, squeaky bum time. S H-C comes on, looking forward to see what he can do

Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Tom Heathcote??

Why kick the thing away?

IanBru wrote:I'm going to disagree with you RDW - Coman was the primary tackler, and for the life of me I can't see what he has done wrong there.

Wasn't a comment on the decision - it was poor from the red to give a pen but no yellow!

I reckon he wasn't sure himself

Been a big fan of TH, but he has not had a great game either. Burleigh looks a good player though.