seen it all now. george kicking the ball

A Win here is very possible....come on boys!!

From what I can make out on Munster's site, there's no West Terrace tickets available at all. Will there be many Connacht fans on the East side?

Contrary to the title of this thread I think that kick off this evening is at 7:45

same as that, i wouod like to know this also.nobody on twitter in last couple of hours from clan

Anyone here know if tickets are still available for the bus to Thomond?

jesus i was shocked when i saw this. paddy power giving away free money for christmas.
they think munster will beat us by 14 points


Munster.. draw..... Connacht

1/14.....30/1.......7/1

Munster

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draw

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Connacht

(-14.0) 10/11 (-14.0) 25/1 (+14.0) 10/11

I'm a little surprised with Munster's bench. Their usual M.O. for this fixture is to have the likes of ROG and POC sitting in reserve in case Connacht make things uncomfortable. Maybe the likes of Botha and Coughlan will be enough to get the job done, but there is certainly an opportunity here for Connacht.

For me this game is all about NOC. Will he build on his performance in the last Gloucester game or does he revert to his uneven form? The scrum should be solid so he can do himself a world of good if he wins the battle of flyhalves. What better way to get us to forget about the one that got away than to beat him head to head?

Heading down to it but experience from the last few years at Christmas time mean that I won't be hopefull, especially seeing as Munster have fielded a reasonably weakened team. This is exactly when Connacht DON'T perform.

great to see we are more or less putting out our strongest team.

re ref, same idiot we had down in limerick last season, brought play back 60 metres when we scored a try and he said there was crossing about 3mins before hand when we were getting on munsters tits.

this can be a great win, fingers crossed. pity i cant make it but ill be on here and stuck in front of the fire and tv with a few cans.

Thats still a strong Munster team and compare the two benches and Munster have a options in the pack. Most of that side are there or therabouts on HC weekend. Main weakness I see is Denis Fogarty but they have good lineout options so mightn't be a huge disadvantage for Munster. O'Dea did well in the last Rabo game he played. They always put out this kind of team against us and we fail to make them pay.

If we build on the Gloucester performance I'll be happy enough. Can't see us winning this one though. Being realistic Aironi away is our next major opportunity of a result.

He's a fan of the penalty try. We need to be angels on our own 5m line.

Ref updates are every Tuesday before match weekends.

I thought that you did those after the game. Well Philips is experienced enough, but let's hope he's not going to be giving too many penos out of sentimentality.

You don't read my weekly ref updates, Diom? I'm disgusted, I really am.

Referee: Dudley Philips (IRFU, 21st competition game)

Jees... that's some statement with the squad they've put out. No big backup on the bench either. Strange.

Good to see Vainikolo getting a chance as well. Let's hope that it fires him up a bit.

Anyone know who the ref is? It'll be IRFU so I would imagine he will be looking to give Hayes an easy time in the FR.

Lads we're going to get a win eventually. It's either this game or the Leinster one