Munster v Saracens

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This place really is going to the dogs...1:00pm the day before a huge European night with the teams named for over 2 hours and no tread up yet?!?!

Munster
Jones, Conway, Smith, Hurley, Zebo; Keats, Murray; Cronin, Casey, BJ; Foley, PO’C; P O’M (capt), TO’D, CJ Stander

Replacements: Guinazu, Kilcoyne, Archer, B Holland, Copeland, Williams, JJ, GvdH

Saracens
15. Alex Goode, 14. Chris Ashton, 13. Marlcelo Bosch, 12. Brad Barritt ©, 11. David Strettle; 10. Owen Farrell, 9. Neil de Kock; 1. Richard Barrington, 2. Jamie George, 3. Petrus Du Plessis, 4.George Kruis, 5. Jim Hamilton, 6. Kelly Brown, 7. Will Fraser, 8. Billy Vunipola.

Replacements; 16. Scott Spurling, 17. Rhys Gill, 18. James Johnston, 19. Mouritz Botha, 20. Jackson Wray, 21. Richard Wigglesworth, 22. Charlie Hodgson, 23. Duncan Taylor.

GunsGerms wrote:Really hope Munster win this. I think they could but will need to bring the pain and be smart. Munster can out smart this team of Barbarians so hopefully thats exactly what they will do.

Given you will probably start throwing up your cornflakes on this idea..but its time to get the Thomond park factor back. The atmosphere except for the odd occasion has been sadly limp...its like we binged on too much viagra up to a couple of years ago and are now feeling the after effects. Its Munster at home, its an English team....its time...#SUAF....as the saying goes.

NB...I still find it a little strange that a little light opera is our get up for it song....

secretfly there are always going to be "weaker" sides but I would say this new top tier competition in it's first week was more competitive than the old HC.

We'll see in the next rounds if this trend continues but it was a good start.

It was the Lunsters that made the atmosphere in Thomond Park good. They are gone now so not much you can do about it.

GunsGerms wrote:It was the Lunsters that made the atmosphere in Thomond Park good. They are gone now so not much you can do about it.

Maybe they were good at light opera?

GunsGerms wrote:It was the Lunsters that made the atmosphere in Thomond Park good. They are gone now so not much you can do about it.

Still plenty of Lunsters around.

I was sitting right beside a physiotherapist from Cellbridge at a HC match last year.

What makes you think they've all gone?

Maybe Lunster should have a team of its own...so that we can demand more places at the fat-cat Euro table.

MunsterMac wrote:

GunsGerms wrote:It was the Lunsters that made the atmosphere in Thomond Park good. They are gone now so not much you can do about it.

Still plenty of Lunsters around.

I was sitting right beside a physiotherapist from Cellbridge at a HC match last year.

What makes you think they've all gone?

Did you meet him on Tinder?

epic fail guns....but sure we wouldnt expect anything different from you.

Am I glad I had to look up what Tinder is!

I'm officially a sub-cultural App-tasticless outcast.

Haha just bringing the humour back Dod you know you love it.

Surprised an auld dinosaur like you has heard of tinder.

Guns is an expert apparently...you should ask him about it.

Had to look up what 'Tinder' was.    

And 'he' was a 'she'.

Women are allowed work now Guns.

MunsterMac wrote:Had to look up what 'Tinder' was.    

And 'he' was a 'she'.

Women are allowed work now Guns.

Thats a common mistake and not necessarly an indication of conscious sexism.

Have you ever heard this riddle:

Father/son riddle?

A father and his son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene and the son is rushed to the hospital. At the hospital the surgeon looks at the boy and says "I can't operate on this boy, he is my son" .... How can this be??

ME-109 wrote:Guns is an expert apparently...you should ask him about it.

Grinder would be more your style?

SecretFly wrote:

HammerofThunor wrote:Not sure he'll be that fussed about an advert recalling a game from nearly 30 years ago. Please don't tell me the Munstermen are turning Welsh? Ready to regale us with tales of the 70s?

We still hear about 1966 whenever that football world Cup turns up...on whatever continent.  Oh the English got long memories t  ................................ now what was I talking about?

Actually i think this last world cup was noteable for the almost total lack of reference to '66, infact a lot of the media seemed to go to pains to not mention it.

MunsterMac wrote:Had to look up what 'Tinder' was.    

And 'he' was a 'she'.

Women are allowed work now Guns.

Oh it's all becoming clearer now...............

You kinda flinched a little about five minutes after she told you she was a physiotherapist?

It's just........................... no, I'm okay... it's just an old rib injury that...................... it flares up now and again, sometimes pretty badly............. can't seem to........I've been to a lot of specialists but...................... no, wouldn't worry you about it, no..... I'll be o................. there it is again.....

yappysnap wrote:

SecretFly wrote:

HammerofThunor wrote:Not sure he'll be that fussed about an advert recalling a game from nearly 30 years ago. Please don't tell me the Munstermen are turning Welsh? Ready to regale us with tales of the 70s?

We still hear about 1966 whenever that football world Cup turns up...on whatever continent.  Oh the English got long memories t  ................................ now what was I talking about?

Actually i think this last world cup was noteable for the almost total lack of reference to '66, infact a lot of the media seemed to go to pains to not mention it.

True. The seemed to have been a specific media ban on the idea. Which is progress.

The father and son in the car weren't 'father' and 'son' to each other.

If you know what I mean.

GunsGerms wrote:

ME-109 wrote:Guns is an expert apparently...you should ask him about it.

Grinder would be more your style?

I thought that was just for lonely muck savages from meath....for swapping details on your Massey Ferguson no?

The surgeon didn't know his 'son's name so therefore it's his delusions that prevent him from operating not the fact that he thinks the stranger kid is his 'son'.

MunsterMac wrote:The father and son in the car weren't 'father' and 'son' to each other.

If you know what I mean.

No, you got it wrong for the same reason I assumed your physiotherapist was a man. The surgeon was the boy's mother. Subconsciously we are all prejudiced.

ME-109 wrote:

GunsGerms wrote:

ME-109 wrote:Guns is an expert apparently...you should ask him about it.

Grinder would be more your style?

I thought that was just for lonely muck savages from meath....for swapping details on your Massey Ferguson no?

Westmeath tonto. Used to love Massey Ferguson's when I was a kid. My neighbours had one. Great wagon.

Gunsgerms wrote:MunsterMac wrote:
The father and son in the car weren't 'father' and 'son' to each other.

If you know what I mean.

No, you got it wrong for the same reason I assumed your physiotherapist was a man. The surgeon was the boy's mother. Subconsciously we are all prejudiced.

Doesn't mean I am wrong. I never speculated as to the sex of the surgeon.

GunsGerms wrote:

ME-109 wrote:

GunsGerms wrote:

ME-109 wrote:Guns is an expert apparently...you should ask him about it.

Grinder would be more your style?

I thought that was just for lonely muck savages from meath....for swapping details on your Massey Ferguson no?

Westmeath tonto. Used to love Massey Ferguson's when I was a kid. My neighbours had one. Great wagon.

either or....still a hole...

MunsterMac wrote:

Gunsgerms wrote:MunsterMac wrote:
The father and son in the car weren't 'father' and 'son' to each other.

If you know what I mean.

No, you got it wrong for the same reason I assumed your physiotherapist was a man. The surgeon was the boy's mother. Subconsciously we are all prejudiced.

Doesn't mean I am wrong. I never speculated as to the sex of the surgeon.

You did get it wrong. You said "The father and son in the car weren't 'father' and 'son' to each other" Thats wrong.

You would have easily got it right if your subconscious didnt identify surgeons as being predominantly a male profession. Thats the whole point of the riddle. Most people get it right when the profession is switched to nurse.

SecretFly wrote:Oh it's all becoming clearer now............... Wink

You kinda flinched a little about five minutes after she told you she was a physiotherapist?

It's just........................... no, I'm okay... it's just an old rib injury that...................... it flares up now and again, sometimes pretty badly............. can't seem to........I've been to a lot of specialists but...................... no, wouldn't worry you about it, no..... I'll be o................. there it is again.....

You've no idea but in my case instead of ribs it's wrist, elbow, shoulder, both knees and one big toe.

I play tennis...badly.....very badly.

Going back to our brief allusion to remaining tickets yesterday I wonder what effect Munster's new 'dynamic' ticket pricing has had on the remaining tickets.

I bought 4 tickets for friends on Tuesday at €45 each and there are currently 15 left but now at €50 each.

Also as far as I'm aware the terrace tickets went from €20 to €30 over the last couple of days.

Will it make it harder for them to shift the remaining 100 or so tickets?

Was just looking at that...its certainly slowed over the last 24 hours. I would put the few hundred down to the friday evening kickoff....i.e try getting from Cork to Thomond for 7.45 leaving work at 5 on a bank holiday.

Good luck both sides. Hope it's a good game.

yappysnap wrote:This probably isn't particularly sporting, and isn't the done thing...

...But I really really hope Sarries smash Munster on Friday.

Not sure why but I just really don't like them and watching them lose would be the perfect start to my weekend.

Isn't sport odd in how it can bring out these feelings for places and people you've never met?

I know what you mean- I have nothing against Munster as such but I find myself wanting them to lose - I think it's because they seem to get more than their fair share of luck in this competition - last week being a case in point where Sale were denied what would probably have been the killer try because the ref blew his whistle too early ...

It's because Saracens are everyone's second team

hmmm

any way i can watch this in UK without BT sport?

quinsforever wrote:any way i can watch this in UK without BT sport?

Quins - try the link that I just PMd you.

Nice choke tackle. In both meanings of the word.

Indeed, odd that refs let that go

Couldn't quite see what that was for. Nice to hear the traditional Munster silence.

Is that BOD commentating who just claimed that Conor Murray was the best 9 in UK/Ireland at the moment?

Nice to see that Big Jim's anger management courses are paying dividends.

Well he said he'd be selected by the Lions.

I didn't think Fraser was involved in that (other than giving away the penalty because the Munster player was holding him place with his knee.

i like the way both teams are trying to play the advantage from knock-ons

saracens scrum looking solid

I've said it before, and I'll say it again:

There are few things finer in life than watching a match between European heavyweights, and doing it as a neutral.

George Carlin wrote:Is that BOD commentating who just claimed that Conor Murray was the best 9 in UK/Ireland at the moment?

That's true, unless Mike Phillips comes home .

IanBru wrote:I've said it before, and I'll say it again:

There are few things finer in life than watching a match between European heavyweights, and doing it as a neutral.

...albeit with 3 Scottish internationalists in the Sarries 23.

bit too aerial for my liking so far. am sure it will settle down once the scoreboard starts moving.

Botha boring in at every scrum. Garces doesn't want to ping the scrum whilst the ball reaches the number 8. George needs to be a little less efficient with the hook and they'll grab some penalties.

Fiesty and error strewn so far.

So very cagey

formerly known as Sam wrote:Botha boring in at every scrum. Garces doesn't want to ping the scrum whilst the ball reaches the number 8. George needs to be a little less efficient with the hook and they'll grab some penalties.

Fiesty and error strewn so far.

Botha can't scrum and hasn't been able to since he left Ulster. The guy is a huge liability for Munster.

Goode deliberately going for the guy in the air there.