Hugo Gordon

Munster tackle count was through the roof on Saturday, with van der Merwe and Kendellen (who've both had really impressive starts to the season) making 20+. Beirne was a machine as usual. Thought Charlie O'Shea looked really impressive again.

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Munster tackle count was through the roof on Saturday, with van der Merwe and Kendellen (who've both had really impressive starts to the season) making 20+. Beirne was a machine as usual. Thought Charlie O'Shea looked really impressive again.

This feels like an article that shouldn't have made it past the pitch stage.

A bleakly fascinating thing about Linehan's transphobia also being the bigotry of choice of so many media figures is that, as a result, much of their reporting on what he says fails to mention all of the other things he's become increasingly insane about.

The thing about the cop in this article (which is great) is that while he seems to occasionally feel a bit guilty, mainly he just doesn't like the consequences of people hating him for it. He keeps talking about how he's a good guy really. And he keeps cashing his checks for breaking up families.

A reminder that every authoritarian regime relies on an army of functionaries to do their dirty work. Some of these will be true believers. But most will be people who tell themselves they're just following orders, particularly if they're benefiting materially from the process.

One of the weird quirks about being in Greece is you see shamrocks graffitied EVERYWHERE, but it's nothing to do with Ireland, it's the logo for Panathinaikos.

Now considerably more sober (albeit still a Leinster fan), and having rewatched what admittedly limited replays there were, I still think the ref made the right call here.

From my view, Porter is over the line but high, with a Munster player underneath him and no way of grounding. To avoid being held up, he sort of chicken wings the ball back, with the ball popping out from under his chest. It goes back first and spins to the side, hitting the corner of the post.

No idea if the Coombes allegation is true, and if it is then fair play, whoever did it deserves a ban. Worth saying however that the screenshot going round that people are claiming as proof is of a completely separate clear-out on, I think, Nankivell that Munster have not complained about.

Getting out of that with 5 points feels like a bit of a heist, though we were undeniably much much better in the second half. Munster deserved their LBP so I'm not too mad about them getting it at the death. #LEIvMUN

Much to ponder, but can't complain about the result. Good to see Joey Carbery back in blue, even if in all fairness to him he looked very much like a man starting his first match since January. #LEIvMUN