ProX Round 3 - this is also on

[The Seeker]

Glasgow played great in the first half, and then fell apart in the second. Ospreys won 23-15.

 

[The Seeker]

Scarlets @ Benetton was a real snooze fest until the last ten minutes or so. Scarlets won 10-3.

 

[Groundhog]

Munster

15. Mike Haley
14. Calvin Nash
13. Dan Goggin
12. Rory Scannell
11. Darren Sweetnam
10. Ben Healy
9. Craig Casey
1. James Cronin
2. Kevin O'Byrne
3. Stephen Archer
4. Fineen Wycherley
5. Billy Holland (capt)
6. Jack O'Donoghue
7. John Hodnett
8. Gavin Coombes
Replacements:
16. Rhys Marshall
17. Josh Wycherley
18. Roman Salanoa
19. Jean Kleyn
20. Chris Cloete
21. Nick McCarthy
22. JJ Hanrahan
23. Damian de Allende

Cardiff Blues

15. Matthew Morgan
14. Aled Summerhill
13. Rey Lee-Lo
12. Willis Halaholo
11. Hallam Amos
10. Jarrod Evans
9. Lloyd Williams (capt)
1. Corey Domachowski
2. Kristian Dacey
3. Dmitri Arhip
4. Ben Murphy
5. Rory Thornton
6. James Ratti
7. James Botham
8. Olly Robinson
Replacements:
16. Ethan Lewis
17. Brady Thyer
18. Scott Andrews
19. Sam Moore
20. Alun Lawrence
21. Lewis Jones
22. Jason Tovey
23. Garyn Smith

 

[big ginger 8]

Has to be one of the stupidest yellows you'll see.

 

[Groundhog]

Munster playing some good stuff so far. Varying the play, offloading. Love the decision to go for 7 with a young team. Coombes' ancestors definitely rode a viking. Big boy. Call earlier against Hodnett was nonsense. He's playing well

 

[munstermuffin]

Munster playing some good stuff so far. Varying the play, offloading. Love the decision to go for 7 with a young team. Coombes' ancestors definitely rode a viking. Big boy. Call earlier against Hodnett was nonsense. He's playing well

He was undersized 2 years ago too.
Ben Healy will be capped in next 12months if this trajectory continues.

Big plus is its all younger lads performing. James Cronin having super game

 

[Groundhog]

Kevin O'Byrne was the kid who was told he couldn't be a back because he's too big but he never gave up the dream. Just look at the hair and the hands.

Good first half. Penalties are killing us a bit. Cardiff fired out the gates but have only benefited from our mistakes since. Agree with you Muff Cronin is playing very well. Some ballsy passes from Healy I'd be calling idiotic if they'd gone wrong.

 

[munstermuffin]

Kevin O'Byrne was the kid who was told he couldn't be a back because he's too big but he never gave up the dream. Just look at the hair and the hands.

Good first half. Penalties are killing us a bit. Cardiff fired out the gates but have only benefited from our mistakes since. Agree with you Muff Cronin is playing very well. Some ballsy passes from Healy I'd be calling idiotic if they'd gone wrong.

Just to add KOBis ahard nosed forward.
Don't let lovely hair, beard and face mixed with skills of AllBlack back and build of a god fool you

 

[munstermuffin]

Coombes Hodnett and CJ backrow could be scary

 

[Groundhog]

What. A. Try

 

[munstermuffin]

That is Monday Night Rugby.

Are ye not entertained.

Cardiff concede 13 points before tonight

 

[Groundhog]

Hope the Cardiff boys stock up on pads and tampons in duty free. They'll make a fortune back home.

 

[Groundhog]

Ref doesn't want to call a penalty even though Josh Wycherley is using their tighthead as a welcome mat in the scrum.

 

[Groundhog]

Yuppa. Love a bonus point win against a decent enough side. Cardiff played well, their centres are extremely dangerous. Our pack was well on top though. We played some good stuff even if the end result was usually through the pack. Happy with everyone today. Cronin, Witch-erley (bit of a clean Halloween joke for ya there) the entire back row especially Coombes, Damo and Casey all very good.

Think a lot of our defensive woes came from Scannell playing a bit too wide and leaving a forward to defend too much grass. He was top notch going forward again though.
JJ did great off the bench too.

 

[sugary tae]

An awful lot to be happy with. Coombes is some man to stop in the 22. Hodnett sharp too
All the young lads are looking very comfortable at this level. Wherever the season takes us blooding these lads is the most pressing issue.
healy and Casey are very Composed. Great to see Cronin play so well.
Loved the fact that our back up props were annihilating their opponents in the last scrums.
The maul was so effective with salanoa and kleyn in there.
Far from perfect but good all round.

 

[munstermuffin]

And for all the crap we get lets factor in of the starting 15 - All 8 forwards and 6 out of 7 backs were Munster lads.

 

[Tooting Carmen]

Second round out of three where all four Irish provinces won.