Munster v Glasgow Warriors, 2 October

                  
Munster Rugby v Glasgow Warriors
Friday 2 October 2015
KO 18:00
Thomond Park, Limerick

Live on Sky Sports 3

Referee: Ben Whitehouse (WRU, 9th competition game)
Assistant Referees: Nigel Correll, John Carvill (both IRFU)
Citing Commissioner: Tim Lowry (IRFU)
TMO: Marshall Kilgore (IRFU)

A. Head to Head

26 Played 26
15 Wins 10
10 Losses 15
1 Draws 1
64 Tries 50
43 Conversions 37
56 Penalties 65
1 Drop Goals 1
577 Points 522

B. Form

Sat 30 May 2015
Munster Rugby 13 - 31 Glasgow Warriors

Sat 28 February 2015
Munster Rugby 22 - 10 Glasgow Warriors

Sat 20 December 2014
Glasgow Warriors 21 - 18 Munster Rugby

C. Teams

Munster Rugby

15 Felix Jones
14 Andrew Conway
13 David Johnston
12 Tyler Bleyendaal
11 Gerhard van den Heever
10 Ian Keatley
09 Duncan Williams

01 James Cronin
02 Duncan Casey
03 Stephen Archer
04 Mark Chisholm
05 Dave Foley
06 Dave O'Callaghan
07 Jack O'Donoghue
08 CJ Stander

16 Mike Sherry
17 Dave Kilcoyne
18 BJ Botha
19 Robin Copeland
20 Jordan Coghlan
21 Cathal Sheridan
22 Rory Scannell
23 Shane Monahan

Glasgow Warriors

15. Rory Hughes
14. Junior Bulumakau
13. Hugh Blake
12. Fraser Lyle
11. Lee Jones
10. Rory Clegg
9. Grayson Hart

1. Alex Allan
2. Pat MacArthur
3. D’arcy Rae
4. Rob Harley (Captain)
5. Scott Cummings
6. Tyrone Holmes
7. Chris Fusaro
8. Adam Ashe

16. Fergus Scott
17. Jerry Yanuyanutawa
18. Zander Fagerson
19. Kieran Low
20. James Eddie
21. Mike Blair
22. Gregor Hunter
23. Robbie Fergusson

Do Glasgow have 23 available and fit players able to play in something like their normal positions?

If we can get a losing bonus out of this it will be, well, a bonus!

No, we don't.

Forgot about this...should be a strong enough Munster team with all the foreign element fit...

Er...why is Dylan Moran pictured for Munster?

Because he's Irish and funny and I wanted to use Kevin Bridges for Glasgow. 

Sometimes it's really quite difficult to pick people with accurate provincial ties whom I haven't used before. So please don't tell me that he wasn't born in Munster, etc. I know. I know.

Fair enough but it would be like putting Rory Bremner (ugh) up for Glasgow. He's from friggin Leinster. Put up The Rubberbandits (i.e your average Limerick person)

ME-109 wrote:Fair enough but it would be like putting Rory Bremner (ugh) up for Glasgow. He's from friggin Leinster. Put up The Rubberbandits (i.e your average Limerick person)

Can you name anyone specific? I'll put them up. Please don't make me put up POM's big shiny face. I come to these boards for a pint of banter, a half of sarcasm and a bit of light eye candy.

George Carlin wrote:

ME-109 wrote:Fair enough but it would be like putting Rory Bremner (ugh) up for Glasgow. He's from friggin Leinster. Put up The Rubberbandits (i.e your average Limerick person)

Can you name anyone specific? I'll put them up. Please don't make me put up POM's big shiny face. I come to these boards for a pint of banter, a half of sarcasm and a bit of light eye candy.

Dylan Moran? Each to their own I suppose.

Mrs GC likes Dylan Moran about fifty times more than she likes me. Maybe I should take up smoking and look like I've just rolled out of a hedge.

Fun fact for the day - Dylan Moran lives in Edinburgh! Clever man.

He's often seen frequenting the cafes and bars of Stockbridge and the New Town.

Mrs fES is similarly enamoured with Dylan Moran. We watch the entire Black Books at least once a year.

Una Healy (now Foden) is a Munster woman with dodgy taste in men.

http://www.independent.ie/incoming/article29609686.ece/ALTERNATES/h342/181283866.jpg

You could go for Terry Wogan who is a Limerick man.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01809/wogan_1809036c.jpg

Why not Effin Eddie Sin....from your neck of the woods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOS-XQ0oZYM

Sin é wrote:Una Healy (now Foden) is a Munster woman with dodgy taste in men.

http://www.independent.ie/incoming/article29609686.ece/ALTERNATES/h342/181283866.jpg

You could go for Terry Wogan who is a Limerick man.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01809/wogan_1809036c.jpg

You had me at 'Terry Wogan'.

Hugh Blake starting at 13 tomorrow night, obviously another Richie Vernon in the making...

Munster:
Felix Jones - capt.; Andrew Conway, David Johnston, Tyler Bleyendaal, Gerhard van den Heever; Ian Keatley, Duncan Williams; James Cronin, Duncan Casey, Stephen Archer; Mark Chisholm, Dave Foley; Dave O'Callaghan, Jack O'Donoghue, CJ Stander

Replacements: Mike Sherry, Dave Kilcoyne, BJ Botha, Robin Copeland, Jordan Coghlan, Cathal Sheridan, Rory Scannell, Shane Monahan

Very different looking side to the one which battered the Ospreys.

Munster fans care to comment?

RDW_Scotland wrote:

Meh, not bad. Strong bench, relatively speaking.

The pack is a bit lightweight with Boab at lock, but we knew that one was coming.

Sherlock and Fozzy both playing, so we should get some purchase at the breakdown.

I don't know why he's been persisting with Hart over Blair - he's been gash so far.

The Glasgow Warriors team to face Munster, Thomond Park, Friday 2 October (kick-off 6pm) – live on Sky Sports 3

15. Rory Hughes
14. Junior Bulumakau
13. Hugh Blake
12. Fraser Lyle
11. Lee Jones
10. Rory Clegg
9. Grayson Hart
1. Alex Allan
2. Pat MacArthur
3. D’arcy Rae
4. Rob Harley (Captain)
5. Scott Cummings
6. Tyrone Holmes
7. Chris Fusaro
8. Adam Ashe

Replacements
16. Fergus Scott
17. Jerry Yanuyanutawa
18. Zander Fagerson
19. Kieran Low
20. James Eddie
21. Mike Blair
22. Gregor Hunter
23. Robbie Fergusson

Not available due to injury: Glenn Bryce (ankle), Alex Dunbar (knee), Peter Murchie (elbow), Mike Cusack (back).

Jeez, Glasgow in dire trouble if Blake is the best 13 available!!

That pack is going backwards as well: 4-8 is very lightweight indeed.

An LBP would be a massive achievement for that group of players.

This game should come with a graphic warning, this could really get ugly if the Munster of old show up against that lightweight pack.

We're 0-3 up.

Stop the game now and let's all go to the pub.

If it was a game of scrums only we would win no problem. As it requires Munster to also play some rugby then I wouldnt go away too soon...

We need probably about two more yellow cards to go our way. We might win then

I suspect this is a question of who can outscore whom - the Munster forwards or the Glasgow backs.

Mother of !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Didn't know Matawalu was back in Glasgow colours

Unable to watch this, so getting text updates only.

How has it been going? 13-9 away to Munster is not bad given that we've had to soak up a yellow.

Anyone watching? Bueller? Bueller?

13-15 to the soapdodgers, suddenly.

18-13 Glasgow. 20 players down and Glasgow still playing with perpetual motion, Munster looking a bit lost!

How much longer to go BigGee?

20-18 Munster, 7 mins to go

Drop goal Glasgow. 21-20. 5 mins to go

Munster penalty 23-21. 2 mins to go

Final score 23-21. That was really tight, could have gone either way.

Well done both sides but I am happy enough, I saw a lot to be encouraged about from the the Glasgow kids, the future is bright enough!

Gutting for Glasgow, but far exceeded our expectations!

Glasgow deserved to win....except for about 90 seconds played by far the better rugby.

RDW_Scotland wrote:Gutting for Glasgow, but far exceeded our expectations!

Your expectations maybe, but us Glasgow fans always expect to win, even with 20 missing!

Annoyed we let a lead slip (and Toonie will be too) but I would definitely have taken an LBP before the game.
That was a very much stronger Munster side than ours, relatively speaking.

BigGee wrote:

RDW_Scotland wrote:Gutting for Glasgow, but far exceeded our expectations!

Your expectations maybe, but us Glasgow fans always expect to win, even with 20 missing!

Yeah yeah!

ME-109 wrote:Glasgow deserved to win....except for about 90 seconds played by far the better rugby.

Munster ground it out in the end, in the traditional red shirted way and fair play to them. On paper though they were a much stronger side than Glasgow and should have won this comfortably. I am very happy with what we have got from our first three games, it is a long season and we are only going to get stronger. I just love it that we still play this way even with such an inexperienced side, Glasgow remind you that rugby can be a beautiful game!

Respect Glasgow. No team with Blake at 13 has any right to be so competitive in Munster.