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Pony
Hooverer of de red carpet
- Mar 2010
- 2084
#556
Originally posted by JentaView Post
It was probably a mistake. Calm down.
When you make a mistake you apologise, you don't let that image circulate on social media building momentum. Utterly unprofessional.
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Jenta
What?
- Nov 2006
- 11239
#557
Originally posted by PonyView Post
When you make a mistake you apologise, you don't let that image circulate on social media building momentum. Utterly unprofessional.
Or you expect that people will be level headed and know that accidents happen. Someone uploaded the incorrect image file and you're out here looking for people to be disciplined and sacked. Thankfully that's not how the world works.
"It’s not the team you support, it’s the club you should support. The team on the pitch will ebb and flow because that’s the nature of sport. No team has ever been successful decade on decade. The club has the history and that’s the passion you should have."
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Tapango
munsterfan
- Mar 2021
- 42
#558
Likely a mistake, as you say, but it's not good for the image so hopefully they acknowledge it in some way as opposed to brushing it aside.
Either that, or double down and pay for a 'Congratulations Bulls' on the big screen in Pretoria this weekend! :P
Last edited by Tapango; 18-June-2024, 17:21.
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Pony
Hooverer of de red carpet
- Mar 2010
- 2084
#559
Originally posted by JentaView Post
Or you expect that people will be level headed and know that accidents happen. Someone uploaded the incorrect image file and you're out here looking for people to be disciplined and sacked. Thankfully that's not how the world works.
There's been absolutely zero from mr about it for 3 days. So for all we know it was intended. I hope and expect it's an error. If so, apologise and move in. If not...
I've seen plenty of utterly idiotic marketing ideas in my time, that the creator thinks genius.
Last edited by Pony; 18-June-2024, 17:34.
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Munsterboy
Great Chamberlain of the Red Empire
- Nov 2006
- 13128
#560
Originally posted by PonyView Post
There's been absolutely zero from mr about it for 3 days. So for all we know it was intended. I hope and expect it's an error. If so, apologise and move in. If not...
I've seen plenty of utterly idiotic marketing ideas in my time, that the creator thinks genius.
Who should they apologise to? You?
It was either a dumb decision or an accident, but who cares?
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Paddy Whac
Admiral of the Fleet
- Nov 2006
- 7086
#561
Originally posted by PonyView Post
There's been absolutely zero from mr about it for 3 days. So for all we know it was intended. I hope and expect it's an error. If so, apologise and move in. If not...
I've seen plenty of utterly idiotic marketing ideas in my time, that the creator thinks genius.
A Glasgow journalist has said that Munster Ruby apologised to Glasgow on the day of the match and explained the error to them & journalists.
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HenryFitz
Leader of the Red Hordes
- Jul 2012
- 3706
#562
On the bomb squad approach, it only works if there's no significant difference between the starters and the subs. No strategy that sees JOD play 50 minutes and Coombes 30 makes sense to me. If the policy is to be properly applied for Munster, then they should be telling the nominal starters to go hard for 30 minutes and then bring on the subs. At least then the better players are playing the majority of the game.
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The Yak
Munster Berserker
- Dec 2016
- 669
#563
Originally posted by HenryFitzView Post
On the bomb squad approach, it only works if there's no significant difference between the starters and the subs. No strategy that sees JOD play 50 minutes and Coombes 30 makes sense to me. If the policy is to be properly applied for Munster, then they should be telling the nominal starters to go hard for 30 minutes and then bring on the subs. At least then the better players are playing the majority of the game.
Big Gav is very good at driving over the line from close range.
In what was always going to be a close game, it is surprising that you don't use one of your best scoring players for as long as possible.
JOD has been fantastic but he's not in Gav's league in converting close in opportunities.
The man that never made a mistake, never did anything.
However I'd love to hear the rationale on Gavs lack of minutes
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Pony
Hooverer of de red carpet
- Mar 2010
- 2084
#564
Originally posted by MunsterboyView Post
Who should they apologise to? You?
It was either a dumb decision or an accident, but who cares?
Why would they apologise to me?
If it was a decision, it's idiotic.
If it was an accident, just nip in bud with a simple note in news section of site. It will be regurgitated as motivation, not just every time we play gla.
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jagawayagain
Great Chamberlain of the Red Empire
- Dec 2012
- 13782
#565
Given the unjust overlooking of many of our lads for the SA tour - I hope they will all get a well deserved rest- I just hope our early season doesn't get disrupted by call ups to the emerging Ireland tour - but you can see half a dozen being given the 'opportunity' to shine , with due notice being paid, of course, by AF.
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Waterfordlad
I can get you a toe
- Apr 2009
- 17999
#566
Originally posted by PonyView Post
I've seen plenty of utterly idiotic marketing ideas in my time, that the creator thinks genius.
"There are a lot of points that we’ve left behind and this is with a young group. That probably tells you what they’re capable of and that they’re a very good side.
Probably next year or the year after next they will take some stopping"
Anthony Foley, May 2016. Axel RIP
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AwayFromHome
Leader of the Red Hordes
- Nov 2011
- 4088
#567
Well the disappointment of Saturday has abated enough now for me to post rationally. Well done Glasgow, they came to Thom*ond and Munstered us. I don't think that has happened since Leicester in the last game in the old Thom*ond. I know we have lost other games there since but generally that is because we were awful or the opposition played their own game. This was a team utterly frustrating us with their relentlessness and hunger., Fair play.
In the end I think that we were too calm. Its good that we no longer make every single game the emotional centre of the world as that's just not sustainable, but I think we relied too ,much on "trusting the process" and at the pointy end of the season that alone is not enough, we needed to dial up the emotion one notch more. While its good that we no longer panic when things aren't going our way and that will stand to us I think we also didn't fear losing enough. I hope the pain of that is something that the squad can learn from and be able to draw on in the season's ahead.
Onwards and upwards.
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blackwarrior
Intermittent poster
- Nov 2006
- 14515
#568
Originally posted by AwayFromHomeView Post
Well the disappointment of Saturday has abated enough now for me to post rationally. Well done Glasgow, they came to Thom*ond and Munstered us. I don't think that has happened since Leicester in the last game in the old Thom*ond. I know we have lost other games there since but generally that is because we were awful or the opposition played their own game. This was a team utterly frustrating us with their relentlessness and hunger., Fair play.
In the end I think that we were too calm. Its good that we no longer make every single game the emotional centre of the world as that's just not sustainable, but I think we relied too ,much on "trusting the process" and at the pointy end of the season that alone is not enough, we needed to dial up the emotion one notch more. While its good that we no longer panic when things aren't going our way and that will stand to us I think we also didn't fear losing enough. I hope the pain of that is something that the squad can learn from and be able to draw on in the season's ahead.
Onwards and upwards.
Agree with this AFH. For what it's worth, I feel also that the team and squad were tired. They've been on quite the run since New Years Day in Galway, and they've had some difficult away matches especially in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Edinburgh. In recent matches a lot of the early year spark had gone, and in hindsight, I think we were running out of road.
Season 2016/17 was a bit similar - we went on a super run after the tragic passing of Axel. Our league semi-final win over Ospreys that season was very so-so, and we were well thumped by Scarlets in that (awful) final.
I ran into one of the coaching team on Sunday, offered my condolences, wished him and his family a good summer and asked him to keep up the good fight. Onward and upwards indeed.
"Keith Earls has that rare mix of brilliance and vulnerability that makes people want to root for him."
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Munsterboy
Great Chamberlain of the Red Empire
- Nov 2006
- 13128
#569
Originally posted by HenryFitzView Post
On the bomb squad approach, it only works if there's no significant difference between the starters and the subs. No strategy that sees JOD play 50 minutes and Coombes 30 makes sense to me. If the policy is to be properly applied for Munster, then they should be telling the nominal starters to go hard for 30 minutes and then bring on the subs. At least then the better players are playing the majority of the game.
JOD is no Coombes, but with all due respect to Fineen, the gap between him RG is far greater. It was a bit of a risk to leave one of them on the bench, but omitting both was a big mistake. That's one of the very few tactical errors that Wig and co. have made all season, and it's such a shame it came when it did.
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#570
Originally posted by MunsterboyView Post
JOD is no Coombes, but with all due respect to Fineen, the gap between him RG is far greater. It was a bit of a risk to leave one of them on the bench, but omitting both was a big mistake. That's one of the very few tactical errors that Wig and co. have made all season, and it's such a shame it came when it did.
While I agree with the difference between the starters and the bomb guys in your post, I had a distinct impression that RG and Gav were rather worn out and perhaps that's all they could give. I wonder was it an enforced mistake?
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