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Sinead O'Carroll: "Why isn't Carbery being talked about as an option for Munster?"

Sinead O'Carroll and Gary O'Toole joined Joe for the Sunday Paper Review on Off the Ball to look ...
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16.22 20 May 2018


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Sinead O'Carroll: "Why isn't Carbery being talked about as an option for Munster?"

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16.22 20 May 2018


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Sinead O'Carroll and Gary O'Toole joined Joe for the Sunday Paper Review on Off the Ball to look back at the week's big stories.

Leinster's win over Munster in the semi-final of the PRO14 on Saturday copper-fasted their status as the top province in the country, following on from the Champions Cup win last weekend. 

It's another trophy-less season for Munster and despite it only being a one point match at the RDS - O'Carroll doesn't think there was a plan in place to beat Leo Cullen's side.

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"I felt like Munster didn't have an overall tactical grand plan," she told Joe. "They had diverse players told to go out and enjoy themselves and do their best and do what they do well. I think Simon Zebo was trying too hard almost to have a moment, to have a big good-bye moment and that's probably why it was so dispirit at times in how he was playing. 

"Obviously against James Lowe it was always going to be a difficult task all day but that was my feeling.

"They don't have a number 10, a good enough number 10 at the moment. And it was one of the things I was talking about yesterday and I started to look it up because why isn't Carbery being talked about as an option for Munster?

"I looked back and actually Ronan O'Gara has said it a couple of weeks ago - so that makes sense. 

"If I'm the IRFU, if I have power over that decision making - Ian Kealtey is about 30/31 - send Carbery down to Munster. He's playing with Murray then That makes way more sense than sending him up to Ulster where he's not going to be playing at a level that Joe Schmidt wants him to be playing at, at out-half," she added. 


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