Edinburgh V Munster

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Edinburgh Rugby   v   Munster
Saturday 3rd May 2014, KO 17:00
Meggetland

Referee: Marius Mitrea (FIR, 28th competition game)
Assistant Referees: Peter Allan, Bob Nevins (both SRU)
Citing Commissioner: John Kirk (SRU)
TMO: Ian Ramage (SRU)

Live on BBC Alba and TG4

Head to head:

Played 22
Munster with 22 wins to Edinburgh's 6 wins
Munster with 69 tries to Edinburgh's 40
Munster with 641 points to Edinburgh's 431

Saying that, when Edinburgh last played Munster at home they beat them in the HK!

Teams:

Edinburgh

15 Jack Cuthbert
14 Tom Brown
13 Matt Scott
12 Andries Strauss
11 Tim Visser
10 Carl Bezuidenhout
9 Greig Laidlaw CAPTAIN

1 Alasdair Dickinson
2 Ross Ford
3 Willem Nel
4 Grant Gilchrist
5 David Denton
6 Mike Coman
7 Tomas Leonardi
8 Cornell Du Preez

Substitutes
16 James Hilterbrand
17 Wicus Blauuw
18 Simon Berghan
19 Ben Toolis
20 Dimitri Basilaia
21 Grayson Hart
22 Piers Francis
23 Sam Beard


Munster

Simon Zebo, Gerhard VD Heever, Johne Murphy, Denis Hurley, Andrew Conway, JJ Hanrahan, Conor Murray
James Cronin, Duncan Casey, John Ryan, Donncha O'Callaghan, Paul O'Connell Capt., CJ Stander, Tommy O'Donnell, Paddy Butler.

Replacements: Damien Varley, Dave Kilcoyne, Alan Cotter, Dave Foley, James Coughlan, Duncan Williams, Ian Keatley, Luke O'Dea..

VinceWLB wrote:

RDW_Scotland wrote:Does anyone else think Denton's tweets about being fairly unenthusiastic about the prospect of playing in the 2nd row were fairly unprofessional?

I know he was just joking and I'm sure he'll give it his best shot, but doesn't really give out the best message.

That was foolish no doubt about it and he came across as a bit of show ponny in saying so. What's the problem about playing in the row when you are 196 cm 115 kg?

Yes. For all you can make fun of the likes of Kellock, there's no way he would have done something like that if asked to move out of position. I'm sure it seemed light hearted when he wrote it but he will inevitably be assused of clearly preferring to stand in the backline polishing his tiara. His team need him to pony up and start walloping POC and he's played with Gilchrist in the boiler house before. If I detect the slightest indifference to playing today, then I'll suggest very strongly on these boards that he should p!ss off and leave the players who actually are interested in playing to take the team shirts.

Denton worried about his hairdo ?

I randomly found £30 in a pair of my jeans this afternoon. Must be my lucky day, Edinburgh to win!

This is the most attack orientated Edinburgh have been all season - paying off so far!

Jaysus... Didn't take long

And here comes the Edinburgh implosion...

got to be a try

Crikey O'Blimey Edinburgh! It's like the Edinburgh of 2011-12: they can't defend for toffee, but my goodness they look good going forward!

Good game so far, Laidlaw needs to nail these kicks..

Munster dominating at the breakdown.

Poor defence there, Beard looked like the only one who cared.

Very soft and disappointing try to concede just before half time. Why didn't Visser find touch?

GLove39 wrote:Very soft and disappointing try to concede just before half time. Why didn't Visser find touch?

My 1st thought as well, probably sliced it..

If we'd held them out I would have said we stood a chance.

As we didn't, we don't.

There were 3 penalties at the breakdown for Edinburgh in the lead up to that try. Ref didn't pick up any. 

That's a game breaker that. I cant see Ed hitting back now.

Watching back the Munster's tries, Cuthbert needs to work on his tackling...

John Ryan looks great in the lose! Only Munster forward who is running direct with ball in hand! Don't think I've ever seen the Munster tight 5 offload in contact so much!

Cuthbert's tackling is normally strong.

If we can get a lbp from this it will be a miracle.

Becoming a route.

And now there's a van on fire!

EDINBURGH ARE ON FIRE!!


No wait, correction...

EDINBURGH'S ON FIRE!!

Ahhh, Edinburgh pulling the classic van in fire trick to catch a breather there.

I'm assuming it's a burger van - that's the 2s pitch down there!

That ball boys not getting a contract!

FFS Denton... We can cut some slack for playing out of position, but not for being unable to catch!

Made the mistake of checking the score in the laughable belief it might cheer me up.

Well it's turning out as we feared   

This is humiliating. So many average players who don't qualify to play for Scotland. What's the point?

This TBP win is exactly what Munster needed. I kind of felt that Munster would hit back hard after last weekends loss.

Did Edinburgh turn up at Murrayfield? They haven't turned up at Meggetland.

So unbelievably squishy in defence...!

With all the love in the world for my Eastern brothers, sometimes watching Edinburgh is more painful than getting Deep Heat in your eye.

Edinburgh clearly saving themselves for next weekend. Operation 'Send Off Laidlaw in Style & Make Glasgow Top' is still on...

Harsh...

Don't worry, Francis has come on to save the day

Great. Piers Francis is on.

Gilchrist has got the right idea. I'm not sure I would want to stay on either.

funnyExiledScot wrote:Great. Piers Francis is on.

Does the enjoyment ever start?   

funnyExiledScot wrote:Great. Piers Francis is on.

  

So having the ball passed at your hand as your arms are outstretched to make a tackle is a YC and penalty try, but a kick is only a talking to?! FFS

I will not be renewing my season ticket next year. I'm fed up.

Shudder to think what Leinster will do to us next weekend   

Pathetic. Utterly pathetic.

Utterly abysmal.

How can you give the man of the match to someone on a team that have been horsed by 40 points?

Well that was Poopie

12-53? Really? Really and truly?

Laidlaw is absolutely raging - if everyone in the squad had his determination and desire to win we wouldn't have been horses by 50 points.

In the words of Sven-Goran Eriksson "First half good; second half not so good"



I do feel Edinburgh are in the middle of a rebuilding and they actually have the coach who can pull it off. Still not a very good side but Solomons is entitled to point to green shoots and I think once they've had a full pre-season under him you'll begin to see Edinburgh be more competitive with regards to qualifying for the ERcC.

Keep the faith Edinburgh fans.

Denton shouldn't tour in the summer. Form doesn't justify it. Beattie and Wilson should tour as the options at 8.

Matt Scott should find a better club, and one that plans to use him in the correct position.

We are back where we started this season, and Solomons should consider his position.

Very hard to notch, very hard.