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Red-carded Peter O'Mahony cleared to play

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Munster skipper Peter O’Mahony has been cleared to play despite last weekend’s red card near the end of his team’s Guinness PRO14 win at Scarlets. 

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The Ireland flanker was shown two separate yellow cards by referee Sam Grove-White during the game at Parc Y Scarlets, receiving the second of those for an intervention at the pile-up that followed Chris Farrell’s second-half try. 

Munster are due to face Edinburgh in round two of the new 2020/21 campaign and O’Mahony is available for selection following a PRO14 disciplinary ruling.

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A statement from the tournament organisers read: “The judicial officer, Kathrine Mackie of Scotland, found after referring to the methodology in the disciplinary rules and the application of mitigating and aggravating features, that the sending off was sufficient. The player is available for selection on Saturday.”

Munster meekly bowed out at the semi-final stages of the restarted 2019/20 PRO14 campaign last month, losing to Leinster, and the trip to Scarlets was their first outing in the weeks in between that loss and the start of the new league season.

Despite getting into disciplinary trouble last weekend in Wales, O’Mahony was named in the 35-strong Ireland squad named by Andy Farrell on Thursday ahead of the rescheduled Six Nations matches later this month against Italy and France.   

O’Mahony was one of eight Munster players to make the cut. Andrew Conway, Shane Daly, Chris Farrell, Conor Murray, Tadhg Beirne, John Ryan, and CJ Stander were the other seven included while Craig Casey and Fineen Wycherley will train with Farrell’s squad next week in Dublin.   

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On the injury front, Munster, who revealed one unnamed senior player tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this week, have lost Niall Scannell for two months as he requires surgery next week following a neck problem that happened in training.    

Keith Earls, who missed out on Ireland selection, was also reported to be rehabbing a back injury.

     

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Trevor 1 hours ago
Will forgotten Wallabies fit the Joe Schmidt model?

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Bull Shark 5 hours ago
Jake White: Are modern rugby players actually better?

Of the rugby I’ve born witness to in my lifetime - 1990 to date - I recognize great players throughout those years. But I have no doubt the game and the players are on average better today. So I doubt going back further is going to prove me wrong. The technical components of the game, set pieces, scrums, kicks, kicks at goal. And in general tactics employed are far more efficient, accurate and polished. Professional athletes that have invested countless hours on being accurate. There is one nation though that may be fairly competitive in any era - and that for me is the all blacks. And New Zealand players in general. NZ produces startling athletes who have fantastic ball skills. And then the odd phenomenon like Brooke. Lomu. Mcaw. Carter. Better than comparing players and teams across eras - I’ve often had this thought - that it would be very interesting to have a version of the game that is closer to its original form. What would the game look like today if the rules were rolled back. Not rules that promote safety obviously - but rules like: - a try being worth 1 point and conversion 2 points. Hence the term “try”. Earning a try at goals. Would we see more attacking play? - no lifting in the lineouts. - rucks and break down laws in general. They looked like wrestling matches in bygone eras. I wonder what a game applying 1995 rules would look like with modern players. It may be a daft exercise, but it would make for an interesting spectacle celebrating “purer” forms of the game that roll back the rules dramatically by a few versions. Would we come to learn that some of the rules/combinations of the rules we see today have actually made the game less attractive? I’d love to see an exhibition match like that.

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