Rainbow Cup Rd 1: Saturday, 24 April: Leinster v Munster – KO 7.35pm, RDS Arena

[wixfjord]

Our backline is so flat. Nobody coming at depth at all and Hawkshaw is just standing and passing.

[Lock9541]

Backline is non functional

Neither is the pack

[Laighin Break]

Leinster steal so many lineouts, barely a mention from commentary - in fact Toland went on and on about Munster's defence and after one and claimed it was a Leinster lineout.
POM steals one Leinster lineout and they're in awe.

[Fan with smartphone]

Dan Sheehan is going to be a bit special isn’t he? This is a good experience for a good few Leinster players imo.

[Lock9541]

de Allende is by far the best player on the pitch

[Dave Cahill]

Well that was par for the course

[wixfjord]

Our pack has a bit to answer for here.

9/10 are pretty poor, but the pack, with a lot more senior guys in it, have allowed Munster to make a total mess of our attacking ball.

HOS was asked to clean out Beirne there.

[OTT]

Good man Fards

[blaker]

Big diff between 3-13 and 20/27-3. Latter is ugly enough

Absolutely fine losing this given teams but it’s getting scrappy now

[Dexter]

de Allende is by far the best player on the pitch

Jesus, you'd hope so for Munsters sake, given the players on the pitch, otherwise he'd be a colossal waste of money.

[Dave Cahill]

Well now we have no scrum half

[OTT]

Their back aren’t they

Show Spoiler:

Munster are back

[cormac]

Embarrassing performance

[wixfjord]

Really disappointed with Baird, Penny and Murphy. Total lack of aggression and fight from all of them. Completely out fought in ruck. Should be a big lesson for all three.

[Theleinsterlad]

Embarrassing performance

It’s like when Connacht turn us over when we send out a young team in fairness

[yellabelly1961]

Totally pointless game

[joooooe]

Embarrassing performance

It’s like when Connacht turn us over when we send out a young team in fairness

This is what it must feel like to be a Munster fan for the past 5 or 6 years. Completely failed to fire a shot.

[Serb]

Not a good performance, must be hard to get up for a game like this. If Munster score any more points here it’ll be a record win for them.

[OTT]

Ringrose, Porter, Ryan etc off in cotton wool ages ago, POM and Stander still pounding the pavement at 80mins. Says it all about what the game means to both groups.

[alanair]

The only good thing about tonight is that Ringer & JR got a run out seemingly injury free - apart from JR’s ‘nads of course