Updated at 15.53
IRISH INTERNATIONAL DAVID McGoldrick was on target as Mick McCarthy’s Ipswich rose to the top of the Championship on Tuesday night.
The Tractor Boys beat Burnley 2-0 at Portman Road, with substitute McGoldrick’s 71st minute strike sealing their victory against the recently relegated side.
Jonathan Douglas and Daryl Murphy also started for the hosts, with the latter taken off at half-time.
Former Ireland U21 striker Joe Mason also scored, as Cardiff drew 1-1 with Blackburn at Ewood Park.
In addition, Anthony Pilkington played 90 minutes for the visitors, while Shane Duffy was in the Blackburn side.
In Derby’s 1-1 draw with Middlesbrough, Richard Keogh and Jeff Hendrick both started, though the latter went off injured after 43 minutes. Alex Pearce, meanwhile, was an unused sub.
Dubliner Joe Murphy was in goal for Huddersfield, as they drew 1-1 with Brighton to claim their second point of the season.
Samir Carruthers and Darren Potter both played the full 90 minutes for MK Dons, as they beat Bolton 1-0 to go fourth.
Meanwhile, Greg Cunningham featured, as Preston drew 0-0 away to Rotherham, while Alan Browne was a late substitute. Former Ireland B international Lee Frecklington started for the hosts, while Aidy White and Paul Green were introduced as second-half substitutes.
Last night, former Ireland U21 full-back Derrick Williams was part of the Bristol City side that pulled off a dramatic late comeback to draw 2-2 with Leeds.
David Meyler played all of Hull’s 2-1 victory over Fulham, for whom Sean Kavanagh was an unused sub. Steve Bruce’s side moved up to second in the table as a result.
Finally, Paul McShane and Stephen Quinn both featured, as Reading conceded late to draw 1-1 with Sheffield Wednesday, while Simon Cox was on the bench.
First published Wednesday at 11.13am
Ahhh here, dont we ever learn. Niall would be more effective coming out of Tesco with his shopping bags Swinging.
@Kevin O’brien: always about “not having enough passion” etc, it’s killing me… especially when we have the skill sets and player pool. Have to take the next step
I like Scannell but for me Kevin o Byrne is munster best Hooker. He’s all round game is superior and we could do with he’s skillset this weekend.
@Anthony O Connell: A fully fit Marshall is ahead of NS too. Wouldn’t even have him on the bench this weekend.
@thesaltyurchin: agreed. Marshall has never really let us down to be fair.
Just up the Pashun, that will do it. Few extra angry faces won’t do any harm either.
Swinging your handbags more like
@Paul1980: Hope the players aren’t feeling as negative as you & Kevin. SUAF.
@TL55: your one of the problems at the moment at the club. You have to open your eyes at the bigger picture, we’ve not come close to winning anything in 10 years and the typical “come out fighting” won’t cut it anymore. If Scannell said something like they have been working on defence and stopping line breaks after Leinster then fair enough but it always resorts back to the passion and hard work…. which hasn’t worked since Paulies time and that team had a lot more than passion. If we don’t change the mentality and standards of the club we will be Connacht in a few years, and even they have won more than us in recent years….
@TL55: agreed 100%,it’s just negativity non stop.
@Stanley: what do you mean “you’ll be Connacht in a few years”? If Connacht received half of the resources squandered by the IRFU on Munster in recent years they’d have won more than just the one trophy more they’ve won than Munster in the last 10 years.
@TL55: The 42 are publishing a serious amount of Munster articles lately, the click bait is very high as it draws in a serious amount of Leinster supporters sticking their ore in. For some reason Munster top brass are letting this happen. This was a week to keep the head down and do their talking on the pitch on Saturday against Toulouse instead of appearing in the media everyday. This wouldn’t have happened under Kidneys rein.
@Patrick O Connell: well said Patrick.
@Patrick O Connell: Good point
@Stanley: Any rugby team that doesn’t “come out fighting” will get dominated like Munster last Saturday. I never suggested that’s all that’s needed. As clearly a lot more is but a team in a final must bring it’s maximum aggression. We didn’t Leinster did. They should have beaten us by an awful lot more but you couldn’t say that about their other recent wins.
@Stanley: I think you mean if connacht were to slip further back they would be as bad as Munster, Friend is probably telling the lads we need to win this weekend, christ lads we dont want to be like Munster. If Andy had the player pool and resources of Munster he’d be picking his spot in the cabinet for champions cup.
Baffled as to how Scannell continues to get picked ahead of KOB! For me he is 3rd choice, at best, behind KOB and Rhys
@Wedger: Scannell hasn’t had good game in 2- 3 years for munster and he just walked back into the starting line-up when he came back form injury? he’s line-out is poor and offers v little around the park on both sides of the ball it baffles me how he still gets picked. And the same goes for Rory he’s been off form for a while now he’s not big enough for a crash ball centre and not crafty enough for the 2nd playmaker role there is alot of deadwood in the munster squad that should been moved on unless they really pull their socks up in the way they perform week-in week-out
@Keith Browne: 100%. There are for sure some names there who held a lot of promise a few years back but for a variety of reasons didn’t get reach the standard of play that merited consideration for international duty. Ultimately if you want silverware then at least 1 to 15 need to be test calibre. If players aren’t showing that by their late 20s, then you have to wonder why we’re not giving the opportunity instead to younger players who could yet make it.
“That’s what Munster *did”.