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Conor Murray flown home from Munster's tour of South Africa

Conor Murray of Munster during the United Rugby Championship match between DHL Stormers and Munster at DHL Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo By Shaun Roy/Sportsfile via Getty Images)

Veteran scrum-half Conor Murray has returned home to Ireland midway through Munster’s tour of South Africa for personal reasons.

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The 35-year-old has been replaced in the squad by Paddy Patterson, as the province prepare to take on a Sharks side replete with their South Africa stars at Hollywoodbets Kings Park Stadium on Saturday.

Murray started in Munster’s 34-19 loss to the Stormers at the weekend, but will likely be replaced in the starting XV by Craig Casey, who is fit again after missing the first leg of the tour.

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Patterson is not the only player to be flown out to South Africa, as Academy prop George Hadden has joined him to provide cover for Jeremy Loughman, who exited with a knee injury against the Stormers. The prop will receive scans this week alongside Shane Daly, who was also withdrawn in Cape Town with a leg injury.

Elsewhere in the squad, Alex Nankivell will continue to be assessed after being a late withdrawal with a hip injury, as will Diarmuid Barron, who failed a head injury assessment in the loss to Leinster.

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Sharks
41 - 24
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Munster squad for South Africa tour
Forwards
Diarmuid Barron, Scott Buckley, Eoghan Clarke, Niall Scannell, Stephen Archer, Ronan Foxe, George Hadden, Jeremy Loughman, John Ryan, Kieran Ryan, Tom Ahern, Tadhg Beirne, Jean Kleyn, Evan O’Connell, Fineen Wycherley, Gavin Coombes, John Hodnett, Alex Kendellen, Jack O’Donoghue, Ruadhán Quinn

Backs
Craig Casey, Ethan Coughlan, Paddy Patterson, Billy Burns, Jack Crowley, Tom Farrell, Alex Nankivell, Seán O’Brien, Rory Scannell, Shane Daly, Mike Haley, Calvin Nash, Ben O’Connor

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Nah, if you see some picture of a way to blame Dmac rather than the whole team who were slacking and just getting beat by an Argentina team that was up for it then you've got unconscious bias I'm afraid.


The coaching staff (and the team as they had done throughout Fosters era) did just not get them in the right frame of mind. They slackened off after two intense English tests and were slow to build back up into test match intensity after the San Diego run around. You can view that Wellington loss as akin to what went on in Chicago in 2016, it was just delayed a couple of weeks in this instance.


Good reminder of what game management is, unfortunately it doesn't cover all the bases and is missing pivotal parts of lethality.


I think you're misunderstanding the argument, this is about Dmac, not the team, and about his idea of game management, not his application. In none of the games this year, including this weekends one, has he done relentless execution of the basics. His conservative game was neither shrewd or accurate.


The difference here is perspective. You see a win and you want to apply credit, just as you saw a lose and want to apply blame. Dmac's game management in both circumstances was very similar, just in this game I felt that pressure to concentrate on it caused him a few more errors in that application for no real gain in that area, and a much more ineffective attack stop the team from making it a very comfortable game.


The other difference is you a way overplaying Irelands performance imo. They were pathetic. Even in the start of the 2nd when they were trying to get points with the card it felt comfortable they weren't going to have what it takes even if they fixed their error rate. That was the first Bled test where Dmac nearly singlehandedly took an unbeatable 50 lead, a great example of good game management that again just didn't come off. Those tests were not 12 tests ago. Twelve tests ago he was running England around like he'd been in the jersey his whole career. We didn't break any record, the streak is a figment of Irelands imagination to desperately show how good they are to the world. You've been caught hook line and sinker in all these topics sadly.

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