Edinburgh Rugby vs Munster, 11 April

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Edinburgh Rugby vs Munster

11 April @ Murrayfield Stadium - Kickoff 19:30, Live on TG4 and BBC ALBA (19:25 - 21:30)

Last meeting:

Munster 13 - 14 Edinburgh Rugby

Munster are positioned 3rd in the table with Edinburgh 7th.

Edinburgh XXIII

15            Greig TONKS

14            Dougie FIFE

13            Phil BURLEIGH

12            Andries STRAUSS

11            Tim VISSER

10            TOM HEATHCOTE

9              Sam HIDALGO-CLYNE



1              Alasdair DICKINSON

2              Ross FORD (captain)

3              WP NEL

4              Anton BRESLER

5              Ben TOOLIS

6              Roddy GRANT

7              Hamish WATSON

8              David DENTON



Substitutes

16            Stuart McINALLY

17            Grant SHIELLS

18            John ANDRESS

19            Fraser MCKENZIE

20            Tomas LEONARDI

21            Nathan FOWLES

22            Sam BEARD

23            Tom BROWN


Munster XXIII

Munster: Felix Jones; Keith Earls, Andrew Smith, Denis Hurley, Simon Zebo; Ian Keatley, Conor Murray; Dave Kilcoyne, Duncan Casey, BJ Botha; Billy Holland, Paul O'Connell; Peter O'Mahony - capt., Tommy O'Donnell, CJ Stander.

Replacements: Eusebio Guinazu, James Cronin, Stephen Archer, Donnacha Ryan, Dave O'Callaghan, Duncan Williams, JJ Hanrahan, Ronan O'Mahony.

2015-04-09
19:33:25

alive555 wrote:anyone got link ?

It's on Alba on the BBC website

No SHC and no Denton. I missed the 1st 10 mins, what happened?

You say the nicest things rory...

Jebus can Keatley just keep the ball in hand instead of kicking it away in the red zone...

Annoying, that try all comes off the back of a man sausage up at the lineout in Munsters 22. Followed by a kick out on the full by Tonks.

Edinburgh finding it a bit hard with 2 openside on the pitch at the same time

If the ref is going to penalise for lifting legs in the maul, then why the hell didn't Edinburgh just change their tactics and drop it immediately when defending a lineout from 10 metres?

Looks like TOD has had passing coached out of him by his time in the Irish setup..two times now a pass was on and he looked for contact.

Far too many mistakes by Edinburgh - aimless kicking too

Any bit of luck and a rugby game might break out in the second half

Nachos Jones_1 wrote:I have a feeling that it will be a long night for you RDW. The Munster pack is very solid and the backs are very attacking. Munster will go for it tonight.

It hasn't quite gone this way.

Fastest maul ever called..

Munster grinding this out

Good tactics...keep the ball away from Keatley...

Grim.

How can he advance 10m when the captain is talking to him??

Bit harsh on Visser...

Visser yellow career for 'slowing the ball down' in the ruck. Never thought I'd see the day

I don't really understand that one.. surely he came through the gate, was on his feet and he was perfectly in his rights to steal the ball?

Can someone tell me why that was brought forward 10m when the captain was talking to the 'ref?

The ref was intent on penalizing us for anything there.

You know it's not your day when Keatley nails kicks from the corner..

Clearly not a try

RDW_Scotland wrote:Can someone tell me why that was brought forward 10m when the captain was talking to the 'ref?

Anyone?

RDW_Scotland wrote:

RDW_Scotland wrote:Can someone tell me why that was brought forward 10m when the captain was talking to the 'ref?

Anyone?

I think it is because he annoyed him in the first half and once more early in the second and the ref was losing patience with him....

Well I'll be damned

GLove39 wrote:Clearly not a try

Oh really?

How was that downward pressure??

That was never a try by Zebo. How could the TMO get that wrong?!

Rory_Gallagher wrote:

GLove39 wrote:Clearly not a try

Oh really?

Doesnt need control...just downward pressure...

Rory_Gallagher wrote:

GLove39 wrote:Clearly not a try

Oh really?

Shades of last year's game..

Well I was in line with that and he was definitely in front of the kicker!

So anyone want to start a thread for the Dragons match?
Yeah at least we've got a European game to play next weekend!

This has been awful.

Not helped by some controversial TMOs!

Anyone know why particularly Ross Ford is so p....ed off (other than the Ref generally annoying him)

Some great scrummaging from Archer/Cronin and Guinazou since they came on....(with D Ryan as well)

ME-109 wrote:Anyone know why particularly Ross Ford is so p....ed off (other than the Ref generally annoying him)

I've never seen a ref march a captain back 10m, so he must be really annoying him

ME-109 wrote:Anyone know why particularly Ross Ford is so p....ed off (other than the Ref generally annoying him)

Maybe cause of his teammates showing.

The home side have their minds on next week by the looks of this game. I am not sure about the Zebo try he looked as if he completely missed the ball even he did not claim the try. Downward pressure is not needed as long as the ball is on the ground when the ball is touched, there was no evidence the ball was touched.

Apart from the iffy try the ref has been fair and could have given out more yellows.

Naughty from Cronin, thought it looked suspect live

Is that our first penalty this half?

That should have been at least a yellow.

glamorganalun wrote:That should have been at least a yellow.

In some parallel universe maybe..

glamorganalun wrote:That should have been at least a yellow.

A yellow would have been harsh, more would have been completely ridiculous.

It was clumsy, and should be penalised, but a red would have been crazy. The body check on Murray in the 1st half was worse..

So why was munster 7 allowed to pluck the ball it of the scrum like that?

Dont know but the ref was going to give a penalty to Munster at the same time..

Rory_Gallagher wrote:I don't really understand that one.. surely he came through the gate, was on his feet and he was perfectly in his rights to steal the ball?

Ruck was formed. Fair enough pen - yellow for persistent infringement

Rory_Gallagher wrote:

Nachos Jones_1 wrote:I have a feeling that it will be a long night for you RDW. The Munster pack is very solid and the backs are very attacking. Munster will go for it tonight.

It hasn't quite gone this way.

I hate Paul O'Connell. He is just too good at setting a maul off a lineout. Hate the bugger (today)

We were on the receiving end of a good old Munstering there, and certainly deserved to lose  that, but some of those decisions stick in the throat.

There's no way in any universe that zebo score was a try, and as I said earlier Earls was in front of the kicker for his try.

I also don't see how visser got a yellow given he didn't really disrupt the ruck in any way.

But these decisions didn't affect the ultimate result - Munster did what Munster do well, and we were poor.

Very unimaginative with the ball, aimless box kicks, numerous attacking lineouts messed up and 3 scrums turned over even though we had a nudge on.

injuries to Hidalgo-Clyne and Denton didn't help, but it's probably fair to say the players had one eye on next week.

It was also bloody Baltic at Murrayfield tonight.