Bath v Munster

[Which Tyler]

Ref: Jeremy Rozier (Fra)
TJs: Thomas Charabas (Fra), Benjamin Hernandez (Fra)
TMO: Eric Gauzins (Fra)


Bath Rugby: 1 Beno Obano, 2 Tom Dunn, 3 Will Stuart, 4 Quinn Roux, 5 Charlie Ewels, 6 Josh Bayliss, 7 Guy Pepper, 8 Miles Reid, 9 Ben Spencer ©, 10 Finn Russell (50), 11 Henry Arundell, 12 Cameron Redpath, 13 Max Ojomoh, 14 Joe Cokanasiga, 15 Tom de Glanville
Replacements: 16 Kepu Tuipulotu, 17 Francois van Wyk, Thomas du Toit, 19 Ross Molony, 20 Ted Hill, 21 Tom Carr-Smith, 22 Santi Carreras, 23 Sam Underhill​


Munster Rugby: Shane Daly; Diarmuid Kilgallen, Tom Farrell, Dan Kelly, Thaakir Abrahams; JJ Hanrahan, Craig Casey; Michael Milne, Diarmuid Barron, John Ryan; Jean Kleyn, Tom Ahern; Tadhg Beirne (C), John Hodnett, Gavin Coombes.
Replacements: Lee Barron, Jeremy Loughman, Michael Ala’alatoa, Edwin Edogbo, Ruadhán Quinn, Ethan Coughlan, Alex Nankivell, Alex Kendellen


Good to see a large number of academy graduates out for Bath

[paddy no 11]

Player for player bath should win by 25

Crowley is a big cog in the munster wheel and that backline has never played together before

I will be at a gig and happy to miss this

[FKAS]

Player for player bath should win by 25

Crowley is a big cog in the munster wheel and that backline has never played together before

I will be at a gig and happy to miss this

Is that a 6:2 bench split with no 10 cover for Munster as well?

[paddy no 11]

Player for player bath should win by 25

Crowley is a big cog in the munster wheel and that backline has never played together before

I will be at a gig and happy to miss this

Is that a 6:2 bench split with no 10 cover for Munster as well?

Yeah no 10 cover, and our 10 is 35 with a terrible injury profile.... . Nothing could go wrong!

[FKAS]

Player for player bath should win by 25

Crowley is a big cog in the munster wheel and that backline has never played together before

I will be at a gig and happy to miss this

Is that a 6:2 bench split with no 10 cover for Munster as well?

Yeah no 10 cover, and our 10 is 35 with a terrible injury profile.... . Nothing could go wrong!

Wow, risky. I'm guessing Dan Kelly would be pushed into 10 were Hanrahan to go off then. Big ask for a makeshift 10 to take on Russell or his backup Carreras. Big ask for Hanrahan to be honest.

[paddy no 11]

Is that a 6:2 bench split with no 10 cover for Munster as well?

Yeah no 10 cover, and our 10 is 35 with a terrible injury profile.... . Nothing could go wrong!

Wow, risky. I'm guessing Dan Kelly would be pushed into 10 were Hanrahan to go off then. Big ask for a makeshift 10 to take on Russell or his backup Carreras. Big ask for Hanrahan to be honest.

There's that and the fact that our tighthead john ryan is a sound fella but he can't scrummage going up against obano and du Toit, we'll be competitive elsewhere but no over coming the lack of depth at 3 and 10

[Which Tyler]

A change to the Munster team named yesterday sees Edwin Edogbo come into the starting XV as Jean Kleyn withdraws for personal reasons. Fineen Wycherley comes into the squad among the replacements.

[Which Tyler]

Nailed on PT and yellow.

ETA: Are Munster still using the lineout playbook from JvG's days?

[Which Tyler]

Underhill out after HT, Pepper walking a little gingerly over to the bench

[Which Tyler]

Will Stuart coming off with a concerning injury after a scrum collapses on top of him

[Which Tyler]

Credit to the commentators today btw. Despite one of them being Dallaglio.


​TV commentary was getting through to the ref, and they immediately shut up.

And a few times now, when the ref is explaining what he wants of the players, they shut up and let us hear it too!


TNT could learn a thing or two. The personnel are obviously capable.

[Which Tyler]

Commentators being a bit harsh on Bath IMO.
Off to a fantastic start, and then just controlled the game. Commentary bemoaning that we didn't carry on at a point a minute

[Beasties]

Yeah no 10 cover, and our 10 is 35 with a terrible injury profile.... . Nothing could go wrong!

Wow, risky. I'm guessing Dan Kelly would be pushed into 10 were Hanrahan to go off then. Big ask for a makeshift 10 to take on Russell or his backup Carreras. Big ask for Hanrahan to be honest.

There's that and the fact that our tighthead john ryan is a sound fella but he can't scrummage going up against obano and du Toit, we'll be competitive elsewhere but no over coming the lack of depth at 3 and 10

John Ryan didn’t get much use out of his studs during that game. Took me back to my first year of playing tighthead

[paddy no 11]

Player for player bath should win by 25

Crowley is a big cog in the munster wheel and that backline has never played together before

I will be at a gig and happy to miss this

Missed out on the 26 point win there bloody useless