Munster Rugby v Edinburgh Match Programme
United Rugby Championship | We take a look at tonight's URC opposition and get the lowdown on their season so far with a tough challenge ahead come kick-off at Thomond Park. Get the latest news from around the province on and off the field with the activities stepping up each week as restrictions lift across the country. We hear from Academy prop Mark Donnelly on his journey so far and take at look at the representative sides in Six Nations action. The positive updates continue on the contract front with the latest players signing up to Munster, and finally we get the inside track from Stephen Larkham and Simon Zebo as we look forward to returning to Thomond Park tonight.
United Rugby Championship | We take a look at tonight's URC opposition and get the lowdown on their season so far with a tough challenge ahead come kick-off at Thomond Park.
Get the latest news from around the province on and off the field with the activities stepping up each week as restrictions lift across the country.
We hear from Academy prop Mark Donnelly on his journey so far and take at look at the representative sides in Six Nations action.
The positive updates continue on the contract front with the latest players signing up to Munster, and finally we get the inside track from Stephen Larkham and Simon Zebo as we look forward to returning to Thomond Park tonight.
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THE<br />
INSIDE<br />
TRACK<br />
STEPHEN LARKHAM<br />
On Tadhg Beirne…<br />
“First and foremost, he is a rugby player, so he<br />
understands the game exceptionally well. He<br />
has really good skills and he shows tremendous<br />
leadership. He has a thirst for improvement<br />
both as a team and individually. He has been a<br />
pleasure to work with. You don’t get many guys<br />
like that who are top of their game and hungry<br />
to get better.”<br />
On the defeat to Glasgow Warriors last<br />
weekend…<br />
“No there's nothing that we can really put<br />
our finger on except that combination is very<br />
important and cohesion in in team selection<br />
is very important. Our lesson as coaches is to<br />
make sure that we don't complicate the week<br />
too much. We make sure that we are very good<br />
with the basic protocols of our game and as you<br />
could see on the weekend, we had a number<br />
of areas that weren't quite up to scratch. We<br />
probably focused too much on stuff that we<br />
wouldn't normally focus on when we've got<br />
cohesion and in combination.”<br />
On scrum-half selections…<br />
“Ethan Coughlan’s away with the U20s at the<br />
moment. We have Craig Casey away, Conor<br />
Murray away. We have got Neilie (Cronin) and<br />
Patrick Patterson as well. We normally have<br />
good stocks, but we have quite a few guys<br />
away at the moment. I think Patrick (Patterson)<br />
was very good off the bench, added a lot of<br />
speed around the breakdown. I think by the end<br />
of the game as well we had started to find our<br />
rhythm and our combination. If you contrast<br />
the halves, the first 20 minutes of the first half<br />
was pretty much as bad as it gets for us. We<br />
started to click into gear after that and then in<br />
the second half everything seemed to go our<br />
way, but we just couldn't pick them back in<br />
time. Patsy coming on 15 minutes to go, we<br />
started to dominate most of the collisions. He<br />
was good, he helped with that speed around<br />
the ruck, his passing was mostly good and then<br />
he's quite an attacking threat when he carries<br />
the ball as well.”<br />
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