Worried about this one. If we had one of our out halfs available would be quite confident but have a nagging bad feeling about this one. For all Munster's faults they were more than a match for Leinster the last day and should have at least drawn. Usually this fixture has been one where we've come in with the chip on our shoulder with a point to prove but in this case Munster are getting slated from all sides but will definitely rally the troops for this one.

While on paper it wouldn't be fatal for our Top 2 hopes to lose here, in reality if we don't win this game I find it hard to see us being in Edinburgh.

Munster name a stronger team than the one that faced us in Thomond. Not a great bench, mind.

Munster: Simon Zebo; Darren Sweetnam, Francis Saili, Rory Scannell, Keith Earls; Johnny Holland, Conor Murray; James Cronin, Mike Sherry, Stephen Archer; Donnacha Ryan, Billy Holland; CJ Stander - capt., Tommy O'Donnell, Jack O'Donoghue.

Replacements: Niall Scannell, Dave Kilcoyne, John Ryan, Robin Copeland, Jordan Coghlan, Tomás O'Leary, Ian Keatley, Andrew Conway.

www.munsterrugby.ie/rugby/22445.php

Connacht team to face Munster, Saturday 16th April, the Sportsground, 19:15

15 Robbie Henshaw
14 Niyi Adeolokun
13 Bundee Aki
12 Peter Robb
11 Matt Healy
10 Shane O’Leary
9 Kieran Marmion

1 Denis Buckley
2 Tom McCartney
3 Finlay Bealham
4 Ultan Dillane
5 Aly Muldowney
6 Sean O’Brien
7 Eoin McKeon
8 John Muldoon (captain)

Replacements:

16 Jason Harris-Wright
17 Ronan Loughney
18 JP Cooney
19 Andrew Browne
20 James Connolly
21 John Cooney
22 Jack Carty
23 Fionn Carr

www.connachtrugby.ie/connacht-team-to-fa...ster-7/#ConnachtNews

We'll be meeting the MRSC Choir at 3.00 in The Dail Bar tomorrow if anyone is around ahead of the match and fancies having a bit of craic with some Munster supporters beforehand. They'll be belting out a couple of tunes too, which should be memorable!

Teams from when we met in November:

Munster vs Connacht
15. Conway vs Henshaw
14. van den Heever vs O'Halloran
13. Earls vs Aki
12. Saili vs Ronaldson
11. Amorosino vs Healy
10. Keatley vs MacGinty
9. O'Leary vs Marmion
1. Cronin vs Buckley
2. Scannell vs Delahunt
3. Botha vs White
4. Ryan vs Dillane
5. Chisholm vs Muldowney
6. Stander vs Muldoon
7. O'Donoghue vs Connolly
8. Copeland vs Masterson
16. O'Byrne (unused) vs Heffernan
17. Kilcoyne vs Loughney
18: Ryan vs Bealham
19. Foley vs Naoupu
20: Coghlan (unused) vs O'Brien
21: Williams vs Porter (unused)
22. Scannell (unused) vs Carty
23. Hurley vs Leader

Tickets is game related and this thread is game related so I said I would put it here just incase sorry

Edward there is already a thread relating to match tickets that you have posted on.

Please dont start spamming other threads.

Eh. Joke. I don't actually believe that the thread affected the match result. Soz again.

What about the semi final tickets thread?

Do we have to apply to you for permission to criticise legitimate issues?

Being a STH for a number of years gives me that right so jog on.

ConnachtCows wrote:
Wow, so we have obnoxious Connacht bandwagonners, and offensive comments now.
People need to stop being so precious.

Not to drag this out, but just for the record I wasn't referring to you CC.

I'm just a bit bothered by people springing up who think that after half a season of winning, Connacht have a right to lord it over a team who made it to the final last year, very nearly won in the Aviva two weeks ago, and who'll have nearly as many Lions starting on Saturday as we've had in our history. And, eh, European Cups. Two of them.

We all saw what happened with that semi final tickets thread.

Anyway, the language used was a harsher than I'd intended. I'm the one being obnoxious. Soz to all.

salmson wrote:

pinky wrote:

salmson wrote:

eezipc wrote: If I were a Munsterman, how would I target a man with a missing spleen? :silly:

You'd sneeze on him. Really.

I hear they're planning to feed him something undercooked :whistle:

Not a Conor Murray box-kick then, they tend towards "de la semelle"

Boom!. Comment of the week right there.

pinky wrote:

salmson wrote:

eezipc wrote: If I were a Munsterman, how would I target a man with a missing spleen? :silly:

You'd sneeze on him. Really.

I hear they're planning to feed him something undercooked :whistle:

Not a Conor Murray box-kick then, they tend towards "de la semelle"

salmson wrote:

eezipc wrote: If I were a Munsterman, how would I target a man with a missing spleen? :silly:

You'd sneeze on him. Really.

I hear they're planning to feed him something undercooked :whistle:

Big D.P. wrote:

Evil_g wrote: Obnoxious Connacht bandwagonners. Never thought I'd see the day.

Agreed.

Accusations (even in jest) of incest aren't even remotely appropriate.

:huh: :huh:

Wow, so we have obnoxious Connacht bandwagonners, and offensive comments now.
People need to stop being so precious.

That's all I'm going to say on these comments. This thread is for the match on Saturday.
Looks like we're slight favorites with the bookies. If the weather stays good for Saturday, I think we'll win by about 8

I'm sure Foley is getting them all worked into a lather for this one. There's enough ammunition in the media about the rise of Connacht and he will be letting them know it's at their expense and it's time to put us back in our place. They'll love to play spoiler while keeping themselves involved in the Champions Cup. The lads will have to weather the early storm and gain the upper hand. It's sure to be a tight game, any talk of a comfortable Connacht win just gets me nervous.