Alan Quinlan

Not their most flamboyant or exciting wins, but I liked a lot about the performance, the work rate and the aggression and the accuracy of the game.

Munster kicked a lot, but they kicked really intelligently and they put pressure on Benetton in the backfield.

So, yeah, there's been a lot going on and it's been difficult for players and not surprisingly, I think there will be some...

and probably it will be addressed a little bit more from people in Munster and we'll probably hear more news on that.

It's not gone away after this game or maybe it might be a couple of weeks until...

until the URC kind of fixtures are finished.

Yeah, it's been very distracting and it's been a lot of people talking about it, but the players this week, they just need to try and back up a performance.

If you look back at all the fixtures, bar the first five games that were very positive, I don't think there's been any two weeks in a row or two games in a row where Munster have had really good performances.

And that's...

you know, that's leaving aside the first five where they won, they had a really good start.

Since that Stormers game, you know, in round six, it's been, you know, disappointing loss, couple of losses, a win, back to bad performance, loss again.

So it's been very, very, very, very poor since that period.

So, yeah,

We haven't got the Ulster team yet, but we've seen the list of injuries.

They're bereft of a load of players.

So it's going to be very, very difficult for Ulster.

And they've got the Challenge Cup semi-final next weekend.

And it's strange because a few weeks ago, you would have thought Ulster would comfortably have a home quarterfinal and everything was going really, really well for them.

And I think the injuries have... The loss to Leinzer last week was...

really tough one particularly with angus bell and tom o'toole and players like that that they will need for that that challenge cup run in so it's an interesting for rich one for richie murphy i think um