ceemec wrote:simonokeeffe wrote:Zebo out for 10 weeks according to Sinead Kissane on the twitter
Luckily Munster might pick their form back three now because Zebo certainly shouldn't be in it.
Yep, he looks like he was coasting a bit, while Murphy really hit the ground running.
Murphy is a much better player than people give him credit for, at least in my opinion. When he arrived at Munster for the 2010-11 season he was – again, in my opinion – their best and most threatening back up until Christmas [10 of Doug Howlett's 14 tries that season came from February onwards], and I think he was picked in every jersey from 11 to 15 over the course of fourteen or fifteen games. It didn't seem to matter to him what position he was selected in. He had come from that hard-working Leicester background, and he just got on with things.
He never got much respect for it though – he was on of these Premiership orphans, who provincial crowds don't really get behind to the same extent as somebody who came through the academy, or even somebody who arrived from another province. It's strange, sometimes people seem to either put aside or not really pay much attention to what happens on the pitch and instead invest all their time arguing about a narrative that isn't all that accurate.
The guy has played almost 150 first class matches [i.e. HEC, ACC, AP & Pro12] for two of the biggest clubs in Europe in Leicester and Munster [source:
http://www.itsrugby.co.uk/player_5760.html ]. He started the 2009 Premiership final [source:
http://www.leicestertigers.com/rugby/1282.php ] and had an extremely solid four seasons at Leicester: 77 starts, 22 appearances off the bench and 28 tries [source:
http://www.leicestertigers.com/rugby/le ... ef=dynamic ]. He can play.
