Cardiff V Munster Saturday

Munster Team

Munster: Felix Jones; Andrew Conway, Casey Laulala, Ivan Dineen, Johne Murphy; JJ Hanrahan, Cathal Sheridan; James Cronin, Damien Varley, BJ Botha; Dave Foley, Billy Holland; Dave O'Callaghan, Sean Dougall, CJ Stander.

Replacements: Mike Sherry, Dave Kilcoyne, Stephen Archer, Donncha O'Callaghan, James Coughlan, Duncan Williams, Johnny Holland, Denis Hurley

Strong looking team....plenty of experience on the bench...

Has Cronin passed Kilcoyne out or is it just rotation?

How has Conway been playing?

Conway has mostly been injured but looks good when he plays. Cronin is catching up with Kilcoyne very quickly and could be No.1 soon enough

When does Keith Earls return?  How long is he out?

Rory_Gallagher wrote:When does Keith Earls return?  How long is he out?

He and Ryan are hoped to be back for the HC game...

15.Tom Williams 14.Richard Smith 13.Gavin Evans 12.Dafydd Hewitt 11.Chris Czekaj 10.Simon Humberstone 9.Lewis Jones
8.Robin Copeland 7.Josh Navidi 6.Andries Pretorius 5.James Down 4.Macauley Cook 3.Taufa’ao Filise 2.Kristian Dacey 1.Sam Hobbs (c)

16.Rhys Williams 17.Thomas Davies 18.Benoit Bourrust 19.Thomas Young 20.Rory Watts-Jones 21.Luke Hamilton 22.Tomos Williams 23.Gareth Williams

Blues Team.

Is this the end for P Davies terrible display again, defence is a joke and poor scrum half just like Williams for Wales slow service.

Jj hanrahan is stealing the show! We look like scoring every time he gets the ball in mid field!

He's 24 from 25 this season to boot! Sheridan playing a stormer also. Cardiff are very poor it has to be said

Job done by munster but seriously that must be the worst Cardiff team in history....

BlueMuff wrote:Jj hanrahan is stealing the show! We look like scoring every time he gets the ball in mid field!

He's 24 from 25 this season to boot! Sheridan playing a stormer also. Cardiff are very poor it has to be said

96% of kicks successful then, thats rather tidy.

You can only play what's in front of you is the old saying with cobwebs on it. But it's true and Munster, always pragmatic, did that.

The panelists didn't seem to like what they saw but for me, I was impressed with a kind of game they've been trying to get to grips with under Penny actually looking very sweet at times.

So when are these recruitment coming from the Blues that they have been on about for months.
It's clear they are needed now more than ever,

Apparently joining from next season, Jhamer, and i think i've read before that the blues have a policy about announcing player signings in the new year. Although i could be wrong.

Awful performance from the blues, all this fuss about HEC doesn't make a difference if we don't qualify. If PT ever needed to make a swift decision it would be to send big phil down to churchill way and ask him to sign on.

Now remember, this is from the western mail in the article about Bradley leaving for wasps:

"With fellow lock Lou Reed also on the sick list, the Blues are planning to bring in an experienced second row on loan in the next week."

I wonder who it could be, maybe Derwyn Jones?  

Full team:

Munster: Felix Jones; Gerhard van den Heever, Keith Earls, James Downey, Denis Hurley; Ian Keatley, Duncan Williams; Dave Kilcoyne, Mike Sherry, Stephen Archer; Donncha O'Callaghan, Paul O'Connell; Billy Holland (Capt.), CJ Stander, James Coughlan

Replacements: Damien Varley, James Cronin, BJ Botha, Ian Nagle, Barry O'Mahony, Cathal Sheridan, JJ Hanrahan, Ivan Dineen

A humorous and sobering match report;

http://www.cardiffrfcfans.co.uk/matchreport.php?matchdate=2013-11-23