Preseason - Munster v Crusaders (Feb 4th)
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Crusaders: 15 Leigh Halfpennny, 14 Chay Fihaki, 13 Levi Aumua, 12 Dallas McLeod, 11 Macca Springer, 10 Taha Kemara, 9 Mitch Drummond, 8 Cullen Grace, 7 Tom Christie, 6 Dominic Gardiner, 5 Tahlor Cahill, 4 Quinten Strange (c), 3 Owen Franks, 2 George Bell, 1 George Bower
Replacements: 16 Ioane Moananu, 17 Kershawl Sykes-Martin, 18 Seb Calder, 19 Jamie Hannah, 20 Christian Lio-Willie, 21 Noah Hotham, 22 Rivez Reihana, 23 Ryan Crotty, 24 Josh Southall, 25 Heremaia Murray -
Munster: Shane Daly; Seán O’Brien, Antoine Frisch, Alex Nankivell, Shay McCarthy; Joey Carbery, Ethan Coughlan; Josh Wycherley, Eoghan Clarke, Stephen Archer; Gavin Coombes, Fineen Wycherley; Ruadhán Quinn, Alex Kendellen (C), Jack O’Sullivan.
Replacements: Scott Buckley, Mark Donnelly, John Ryan, Kamil Nowak, Jack Daly, Daniel Okeke, Neil Cronin, Tony Butler, Rory Scannell, Colm Hogan.
https://www.munsterrugby.ie/preview/team-news-munster-side-to-face-crusaders/#preview
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Crusaders playing like it's their first game of the season which is to be expected, bit sloppy at the breakdown and missing first up tackles etc
Leigh halfpenny didn't last the first half , has his arm in a sling
Munster targeting Chay Fihaki with plenty of high balla -
Dumb by Gardner there.
Scrappy game
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Both Crusaders tries have been well worked through numerous hands, thatbwas a pearler finished by McLeod
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Reihana pulls a wide conversion on FT to miss the a draw.
2nd half was much better.
A few odd calls or non calls, but overall the ref was good.
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Strange with a dumb yellow. No surprise there
Munster the better side, probably should’ve scored more tries. Crusaders took their handful of chances well.
It was always going to be difficult with one side mid season and another in their first match of the preseason
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@Chris said in Preseason - Munster v Crusaders (Feb 4th):
@Duluth said in Preseason - Munster v Crusaders (Feb 4th):
Any update on the Halfpenny injury?
Not good I hear having scans to determine.
Poor bastard
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@MiketheSnow said in Preseason - Munster v Crusaders (Feb 4th):
@Chris said in Preseason - Munster v Crusaders (Feb 4th):
@Duluth said in Preseason - Munster v Crusaders (Feb 4th):
Any update on the Halfpenny injury?
Not good I hear having scans to determine.
Poor bastard
So unluckyYeah it’s shit for him, hopefully the scans turn out not as bad as they think.
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@Bovidae said in Preseason - Munster v Crusaders (Feb 4th):
Is Coombes a regular starter for Munster? He was part of the Irish squad that toured NZ. They have both Synman and Kleyn in their squad but both were unavailable due to injury.
Sky NZ is obviously doing in-studio commentary for these pre-season games.
Coombes usually starts at 8. He's a try scoring machine but not in Andy Farrells plans for whatever reason.
This is Snymans 3rd season with Munster and he's played about 11 games. Been injured all the time. Just happened to be injury free for the world cup. Lucky Rassie! Then got injured again.
