MUNSTER HAVE CONFIRMED that Ireland internationals Tadhg Beirne, Gavin Coombes, Dave Kilcoyne, and Andrew Conway remained sidelined through injury and won’t make their returns in Friday night’s huge clash with Ulster.
Johann van Graan’s men face into a pivotal United Rugby Championship battle in Belfast as the play-off race heats up.
A win for fourth-placed Munster could send them above Ulster into the top two in the table, but a defeat would bring pressure from behind in the battle for home quarter-finals.
Beirne [thigh], Coombes [ankle], Conway [knee], and Kilcoyne [neck] are still rehabbing their injuries, but Munster have happily reported that they didn’t sustain any new injury issues in last weekend’s impressive Champions Cup win over Exeter at Thomond Park.
The province have confirmed, however, that back row Jack O’Sullivan will be sidelined “for the coming weeks” due to the knee injury he suffered in the first leg of that European match-up away to Exeter.
Second row RG Snyman and prop James French both remain on the long-term injury list as they recover from knee issues.
Must win game for Munster.
Given the Bok teams seem to very difficult to beat at home, Munster probably need 2 wins from 3 to make the playoffs. And given one of those games is Leinster, Munster really need to with this and take a bonus vs. Cardiff to make the playoffs. Hopefully Leinster can buck the trend in South Africa and take some points from Stormers and Sharks
@Johnny 5: For a home quarter Munster will need 2 wins but 5 points should be enough qualify given how erratic Scarlets are.
Ulster will probably need 2 wins to claim a home semi. Their last 3 games are against 3 of the chasing pack Munster, Edinburgh & The Sharks.
Edinburgh have a gimme against Zebre so Ulster will probably need to beat them to get the home semi.
Glasgow have it all to do with 2 games in SA & then away to Edinburgh
@TL55: Im not sure how Scarlets fit into Munsters qualification? Is it the last game against stormers? Looks like there most of the games left involve the top 6 playing each other, could be a lot of changes.
2016/17 the last time we won in Ravenhill.
Do we know if RG is expected to play again before the end of the season?
@Ciaran Kennedy: na. They said the other day he won’t be back for good while.
So hopefully he will be out and about by August and be ready for new season.
Nobody cares about that competition
@Tony Mcgrath: No one cares about your comments
@Tony Mcgrath: I don’t know. The addition of the SA teams has added real quality. Looking forward to the playoff stages. Will be some quality matches.
@Tony Mcgrath: please explain all the season ticket holders that attend the matches so? Whoops!