Pro12: Munster vs Edinburgh - Friday 29th April

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Form:
Munster
16/4/16 Connacht 35 - 14 Munster
2/4/16 Leinster 16 - 13 Munster
25/3/16 Munster 47 - 0 Zebre

Edinburgh
15/4/16 Leinster 30 - 23 Edinburgh
1/4/16 Edinburgh 29 - 0 Zebre
27/3/16 Dragons 15 - 16 Edinburgh

Head to head
Not including all the stats here, but this one caught my eye:
Played 27
Munster Wins: 21 vs Edinburgh wins: 6.  

Lovely try Tovey! Poor Munster tackling

PhilBB wrote:It would be lovely if somebody could organise a 9-9 all draw for this game.

Thanks.

Would a 10-10 all draw be ok, Phil?

Matt Scott looking fit and strong - making ground every time he touches the ball

Hoyland missed tackle leads to a try.

His tackling is awful!

Exciting game!

Try made by Conway. Baws Edinburgh defence as usual.

Oops. Spoke too soon. 

Lovely footballing by Conway for the break out and well done Zebo for finishing off. Good match. 

Connacht v Treviso is a tight game too.

Our wide defence has been awful - Munster should go wide every time

Munster backs running riot!

Munster attack looking sharp but we're making it far top easy for them!

They could have the BP sorted out by half time

Johnny Holland and Andrew Conway are playing inspiring rugby. Great to see. 

Holland is one for the future. Growing in confidence.

Ref is constantly at their tighthead but is yet to actually penalise him

And Edin get their penalty.  

And here comes the rain.

And Holland makes a bad fumble just before half time. 

Edin scrum on half way

And a free kick results

Pot Hale wrote:Johnny Holland and Andrew Conway are playing inspiring rugby. Great to see. 

Holland is one for the future. Growing in confidence.

Why couldn't you have played Keatly instead??

And it's half time

RDW_Scotland wrote:

Pot Hale wrote:Johnny Holland and Andrew Conway are playing inspiring rugby. Great to see. 

Holland is one for the future. Growing in confidence.

Why couldn't you have played Keatly instead??

Wait and see what happens when he does......  

Our scrum has been on top so why didn't we keep going for a penalty?

Tackling has to get better, and ball retention - every time we were turned over Munster scored!

Come on Edinburgh! Blues could really use you guys winning.

Unbelievable end to the Connacht match. 

Connacht only leading by two.  Treviso get a long range penalty with time up and get it. 

Treviso win and move above Zebre to possibly take the European spot. 

All to play for next week. 

Should be a cracking final weekend.

Pot Hale wrote:Unbelievable end to the Connacht match. 

Connacht only leading by two.  Treviso get a long range penalty with time up and get it. 

Treviso win and move above Zebre to possibly take the European spot. 

All to play for next week. 

Should be a cracking final weekend.

Crazy, bottom beating (joint) top

Good start from Edinburgh - hopefully we can reign in the mistakes.

Rein

Glasgow take the lead in the league with their BP win over Zebre. 

They head to Sportsground for final match. 

Juicy.

Come on ref he flopped all over that on the deck!

Munster losing it at the scrum.

Very little in that. Penalty probably fair but a soft one!

Holland has lost his first half sparkle.

Munster counter rucking effectively - we're not securing rucks well enough

Well well not that one.

Scrum is keeping us in this.

We stand a chance if we keep within a score but I can't see us coming back if Munster score next.

Side entry?

Mike sherry dances into a catch and looks like a plank

Munster have been poor this half - we're never gonna have a better chance! Need to score asap

Edin have Munster on toast at the scrum.  Shameful.

One point game. 

Foley is staring into the abyss.

Good to see the scrum dominance has continued with Sutherland and McInally on.

Let's just hope Munster bound andress stays on the bench!

This is the game...

RDW_Scotland wrote:Good to see  the scrum dominance has continued with Sutherland and McInally on.

Let's just hope Munster bound andress stays on the bench!

He is on, good news for Munster!

It really is a strange one - if he contributes to an Edinburgh win he won't be playing too European rugby next season!

Nervous end to this game from both teams!

Andress comes on and we lose our first scrum penalty!

This is the worst Munster team i have ever seen.

TheMildlyFranticLlama wrote:Nervous end to this game from both teams!

I can't watch!

We're not gonna come back from this

Think the decision against Scott was maybe harsh though - especially given the ref hasn't given many ruck penalties thus game

Can't see anything there?

Was always going to be tough ask after some seriously wet tackling in the first half, why have we been consistently awful in the first 40 minutes recently?

Munster get the bonus point win whilst looking unbelievably average.

Edinburgh ultimately paying the price for dreadful defending in the first half.

And paying the price for a dreadful run of results in the middle of the season.