QuoteAwesome performance by Munster, save for some poor decisions from the ref they could have held out (amazing how the All Blacks get away with murder at the breakdown).
Munster 16 New Zealand 18. FT
Rokocoko scored with 3 minutes left. Great performance by Munster against half the team that started against Scotland. I thought they would overrun Munster in the second half but the ABs were lucky to win in the end.
Awesome performance by Munster, save for some poor decisions from the ref they could have held out (amazing how the All Blacks get away with murder at the breakdown).
Great game, Munster i thought really had it. Fair play to them, just sooo unlucky in the end up.....disappointing, but, was a brilliant game and were not giving up easy!!!
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I think Munster did very well at the breakdown compared with Ireland who were beaten up in that area. In fairness the breakdown is IMO the ABs biggest strength - they recycle the ball faster than any other team.Originally Posted by centre mid
Disagree, I thought the ref was excellent and very, very fair. He interfered less than any ref I've seen in a long time.
Completely agree.
Munster's aggression was the big difference between today's performance and Ireland's on Saturday. They hit every ruck like their lives depended on it and protected and re-cycled the ball extremely well.
As well as the seasoned players like Sheahan, O'Driscoll and Stringer, Ronan, Dowling and Murphy gave Kidney a timely reminder.
Dual-haka was brilliant.
Shame..
Last edited by Angus; 18/11/2008 at 9:33 PM. Reason: Slightly OTT and in heat of moment
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Couldn't agree more
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i got in too late for the dual Haka - i was looking forward to it all day.
any links to it? YouTube dont have it up yet.
Great performance from Munster,you could see how much the NZ lads in the team wanted to overturn the ABs.
Roll on Saturday and hopefully the Ireland players can take something from this game,like how to throw yourself at a tackle!
Not sure about that. The AB's missed 3 relatively easy penos which should have left Munster playing catch up rugby.
Very enjoyable game, marred even so slightly by some Munster players feigning injury to break up the game. No one can fault the commitment of the players and it was a great spectacle. Pity I had no choice other than to listed to Rhyl "Yah" Nugent.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
Massive occasion. Massive performance. Everything about the whole occasion was memorable.
As regards the game, Munster possibly deserved more. It was sickening to lose to a late try, although the Blacks should have been ahead by that stage. Sublime performances by Stringer, O'Driscoll and Warwick. Bad bad error by Mafi gave them the try at the end, but nobody was pointing the finger. I just wish Warwick had a go on the last play rather than kicking it dead, which made no sense. A couple of drives, central position and a drop goal to win? Now that would have been incredible.
Yeah but Ireland were playing the actual All Blacks.
There's no real difference to be honest. The ABs use squad rotation in most games anyway and their talent pool is so deep that it makes no difference what team they put out.
Put it this way, Munster were infinitely more weakened than New Zealand.
Munster had some players making their debuts. If they wanted they could easily have beaten Ireland by another 20 points. Half the AB team yesterday started against Scotland.
More than half the Munster team played the last Henieken Cup game. Whats the point in this stoopid argument?
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One of the best images shown on TV was when Munster were held up on the line & they showed a women jumping up & down with a "Try" banner. She was at least 30 seconds behind the other 24,000 odd people in realising it was not a score.
She was probably at the make-up counter in Brown Thomas today boasting about how she seen great goal scored by 'the claw'One of the best images shown on TV was when Munster were held up on the line & they showed a women jumping up & down with a "Try" banner. She was at least 30 seconds behind the other 24,000 odd people in realising it was not a score.
End of the day All Blacks A's beat the Munster reserves. Whoopeee.
Murphy in for Dempsey, Flannery in for Best and Ferris for Quinlan (suspended for 3 weeks) are the only changes, I've heard from the team. O'Kelly on the bench.
G Murphy, T Bowe, B O'Driscoll capt., L Fitzgerald, R Kearney, R O'Gara,
T O'Leary, M Horan, J Flannery, J Hayes, D O'Callaghan, P O'Connell, S Ferris, D Wallace, J Heaslip.
Replacements: R Best, T Buckley, M O'Kelly, A.N. Other, E Reddan, P Wallace, K Earls.
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