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"I'm properly ****** off about that. I don't see any benefit in charging down someone's standing leg, I only see it as a danger or as a potential to get injured. I don't think it's a good tactic. They did it to us at Thomond Park, they got our scrum-half Te (Aihe Toma) with it in the league game and they almost got me a couple of times.


Luckily my leg came out of the ground and I managed to fall over, but if my leg stayed in the ground - especially in that (artificial) surface - you're looking at syndesmosis, you're looking at the cruciate (ligament). I'm not blaming the players. I don't know who told them to do it but it's very dangerous. Thankfully I didn't get injured. They're the only team I've come across that did it." - Conor Murray


Getting a bit precious now Conor! No citings came from it and if that's the first time in his career he's had his standing leg taken out he's lived a charmed existence. Let it go because you're only bringing more of this on yourself in the future. Risk of injury here, especially on a firm pitch, is much lower than he and Munster are making out. In one way its understandable that they're protecting their golden boy but they'd all probably have been better off forgetting it.


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