Team Named For La Rochelle - Post 49

[McCloud]

Penney out.

To late.....

[Kevy-Wevz]

• 75 Min "The end game confirms the good performance of La Rochelle scrum penalty that gets good when she was on a scrum for Munster at the entrance of 22m Yellow and Black.
• 79 Min.."Big Marcel Deflandre atmosphere for this match! The rochelais do the laundry on the line of Munster.

I think I'll have to get all my match updates like this from now on. Even when we're getting hammered I'll still be laughing.

[LondonMunster]

Match report.

http://eamorugby.blogspot.co.uk/2012...helle-has.html

[Old Dog]

Other results:

Clermont A 49 - 25 Ospreys

Biarritz 40 - 3 NG Dragons (hat trick for Brew against his former club)

Bayonne 15 - 20 Ulster (Late try seals a good Ulster win)

Argentina 31 - 17 SF Paris (The Pumas' final warm up game before the Rugby Championship; Paris had beaten them (25-21) last weekend)

[dropkick]

Bad result for Munster but it could be a sign of big changes to come more than anything else. I'm sure if they went out and played conservatively it would have been a much tighter game. It could take Penney months to get the team playing his style of rugby so maybe the tough fixture list at the start of the rabo season will be good timing.

[con man]

how did ger sla play was he up to this level?

[Lenihan]

We lose 45-10 to Ospreys, but then only by 31-7 to La Rochelle! There is a back-to-back improvement trend there somewhere, however slight

Exactly. This fellah shares a similar logic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=IE&h...FII&nomobile=1

[the_dazz]

Match report.

http://eamorugby.blogspot.co.uk/2012...helle-has.html

Looks like there was plenty positives to take from the game. A first up pre season game, away in France, against a team who played twice recently, with a team of academy/fringe players I wouldnt say many would have expected much more. Next two weeks will tell a bit more but I myself wont be judging anything fully until the 13th of October against Racing.

[MrsMcGahan]

Ok

penney in!!!!!!

[ed7890]

Wouldnt mind the result, but the talk of being second best in the scum is worrisome. Are they a good scrummaging team? Could it be our light second row?

[deltared]

[QUOTE=LondonMunster;1097857]Match report.

http://eamorugby.blogspot.co.uk/2012...helle-has.html[/QUOTE

Happy with that. Green shoots, from small acorns etc..pleased to hear of potency in our back line. A fresh start.

[deadlyBuzz]

You learn more about where you're really at in defeat than you do in victory. With Penney needing to learn his team and a lot of new players needing to learn their teammates, this is not a bad result. I would say himself and Mannix now have a better idea where we are which will play a big part in figuring out how we get to where we want to be.
(very pensive and philospphical this afternoon!)