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1 day ago |
irishtimes.com | Gerry Thornley
Viewed from the outside, this looks like Munster‘s most pressurised game of the season; a winner-takes-all shoot-out against Benetton at a sold-out Musgrave Park on Friday (kick-off 8pm). To the victor, a place in both the playoffs and next season’s Champions Cup. To the losers, almost certainly neither. But in the view of Craig Casey, they will embrace all the ramifications that come with this match. “There’s no point shying away from the pressure,” he said.
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1 day ago |
irishtimes.com | Gerry Thornley
The Benetton side which squares up to Munster in Friday’s glorified playoff to reach the playoffs, and also next season’s Champions Cup, is probably the best to ever set foot on an Irish ground. The financially well-backed Treviso-based outfit are ambitious for themselves as well as being bulk suppliers to the Azzurri, and arrive on the back of their best win of the season. This season is no one-off.
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2 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Gerry Thornley
For the first time in 31 years, there will be, at most, two Irish provinces in the Champions Cup next season, with Munster needing to beat Benetton in what is liable to be a taut night in Cork next Friday to ensure there will be two.
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2 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Gerry Thornley
In their hour of need their public have rallied to the cause. Munster’s all-or-nothing shoot-out on the 18th and final weekend of the URC regular season against Benetton in Virgin Media Park next Friday (kick-off 8pm) is an 8,000 sell-out. To all intents and purposes, this is effectively a playoff to reach the playoffs and with it next season’s Champions Cup.
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2 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Gerry Thornley
If Munster thought they were in knock-out territory ahead of last Friday’s 38-20 win over Ulster in Thomond Park, they certainly are now. Next Friday night at Musgrave Park (kick-off 8pm) they host Benetton in what effectively amounts to a straight win-or-bust shoot-out with the Italians for a place in both the playoffs and next season’s Champions Cup.
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This stadium is designed, with every fabric, to maximise sound. Works too. Blue Army here in force…. https://t.co/qW1YDe06tW
Okay, it’s an impressive stadium. It deserves a big European game…at last! Toulouse looking and sounding fairly chilled. https://t.co/MFgA5OETeX
A bit of a crush outside but some atmosphere inside https://t.co/HSfmP6zMa7