Pro12 FINAL - Glasgow Warriors v Munster Rugby, 30 May

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31 GLASGOW WARRIORS v MUNSTER RUGBY 13
Saturday 30 May 2015
KO: 18:30
Ravenhill, Belfast

Live on Sky Sports/TG4/BBC Sport Scotland

Referee: Nigel Owens (WRU, 127th competition game)
Assistant Referees: 1) Ian Davies, 2) Sean Brickell, 4) Gwyn Morris, 5) Wayne Davies (all WRU )
Citing Commissioner: Stefano Marrama (FIR)
TMO: Derek Bevan (WRU)

A. Head to Head - Aggregate

25 Played 25
9 Wins 15
15 Losses 9
1 Draws 1
46 Tries 63
36 Conversions 42
64 Penalties 54
1 Drop Goals 1
491 Points 564
25 Avg. Age 27

B. Head to Head - Recently

Sat 28 Feb 2015 - Munster Rugby 22 - 10 Glasgow Warriors

Sat 20 Dec 2014 - Glasgow Warriors 21 - 18 Munster Rugby

Fri 16 May 2014 (PO) -  Glasgow Warriors 16 - 15 Munster Rugby

Sat 12 Apr 2014 - Munster Rugby 5 - 22 Glasgow Warriors

Fri 25 Oct 2013 - Glasgow Warriors 6 - 13 Munster Rugby

C. Run-In

Glasgow Warriors

22/05/15 - Glasgow 16 - 14 Ulster

16/05/15 Glasgow 32 - 10 Ulster

08/05/15 Ospreys 21 - 10 Glasgow

Munster Rugby

23/05/15 Munster 21 - 18 Ospreys

16/05/15 Munster 50 - 27 Dragons

09/05/15 Ulster 23 - 23 Munster

D. Teams

Glasgow Warriors

Stuart Hogg, Tommy Seymour, Richie Vernon, Peter Horne, DTH van der Merwe, Finn Russell, Henry Pyrgos, Gordon Reid, Dougie Hall, Rossouw de Klerk, Leone Nakarawa, Jonny Gray, Rob Harley, Ryan Wilson, Josh Strauss (captain).

Replacements: Fraser Brown, Jerry Yanuyanutawa, Jon Welsh, Al Kellock, Chris Fusaro, Niko Matawalu, Duncan Weir, Sean Lamont.

Munster Rugby

Felix Jones; Keith Earls, Andrew Smith, Denis Hurley (captain), Simon Zebo; Ian Keatley, Duncan Williams; Dave Kilcoyne, Eusebio Guinazu, BJ Botha; Billy Holland, Paul O'Connell; Donnacha Ryan, Paddy Butler, CJ Stander.

Replacements: Duncan Casey, James Cronin, Stephen Archer, Sean Dougall, Jack O'Donoghue, Cathal Sheridan, JJ Hanrahan, Ronan O'Mahony.

All Glasgow at the moment!

Did Earls knock that ball dead on purpose??

Surely this could be a penalty try?

I think Munster are missing O'Mahony here. He would be perfect for slowing things down for Glasgow, and also to get Munster going in attack.

Was that another case of the outcome making the intent irrelevant? Just because the ball came of DTH first does not take away from Earls intent of breaking the laws.

Owens bottled it!

Earls & Munster are very very lucky

Does he slap it out or was he trying to tackle DTH and hit the ball in the process?

No arm around DTH for me. competing for the ball. Not trying to ground. Trying to slap it out.

Poor ref decision. Very poor.

Swinging arm knocked the ball into touch. Should have been a penalty at lest.

unreal

Don't leave DTH!!!

forward though i think

Nakarawa is really putting his very large paws up for the MOTM award.

I think we've kept the right Fijian

although it may have been forward

Does Owens not feel like paying attention today or what. Clear knock on there. DOnt know where Nige was looking.

Glasgow are showing they can play great even without Matawalu

Glasgow are tearing Munster apart!

Ive a real soft spot for Hogg!

Hello? Is it Munster? It's Glasgow here. We're just wondering when you're going to turn up to this final. Give us a call back when you get this message

Score please for those of us stuck at work.

Munster 3-21 Glasgow

21-3, tmo for munster possible try

Right focus up glasgow.

Very lucky it's not a yellow

Dreadful defending at the end which was disappointing

tigertattie wrote:Hello? Is it Munster? It's Glasgow here. We're just wondering when you're going to turn up to this final.  Give us a call back when you get this message

Think they may have heard you. Talk about tempting fate!

The length of that TMO was a joke.

clivemcl wrote:The length of that TMO was a joke.

Yeah seemed a pretty straightforward decision to me.

Anyone else getting really bad sound on BBC2?

Jason White. Legend

My childhood hero!

Can't help but think that first half almost went too well for Glasgow (if you know what I mean) - hopefully that try has kept their minds on what is going to be a tough 2nd half

Jason White shouldn't wear coats like that. Jason White is supposed to be tough.

123456789 wrote:Jason White shouldn't wear coats like that. Jason White is supposed to be tough.

Do you want to tell him to take it off?

Come on glasgow! Let's empty the farking locker.

Just keep doing the same Glasgow. If it ain't broken, then don't fix it!

tigertattie wrote:

123456789 wrote:Jason White shouldn't wear coats like that. Jason White is supposed to be tough.

Do you want to tell him to take it off?

No I want Jason to wear sober colours not cream

123456789 wrote:

tigertattie wrote:

123456789 wrote:Jason White shouldn't wear coats like that. Jason White is supposed to be tough.

Do you want to tell him to take it off?

No I want Jason to wear sober colours not cream

Ecru more like and very camp.
Penalty try coming up.

This is one of my pet hates in rugby - if the scrum isn't going anywhere they should be told to use it, not wait for it to drop.

What a relief to see Munster opt for the points

Odd decision from Munster

I don't get that decision at all

Munster have come out strongly, Glasgow really need some points on the board soon.

In other news I've recently graduated from the Andy Nicol school of stating the bleeding obvious

Zebo totally took out Seymor there, with the ball & line at Tommys mercy

Is just me or does Zebo have an almighty beer belly on him?

Stunned how Glasgow are neutralizing Munster's rolling mauls