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Munster make announcement on Denis Leamy's future amid coaching exodus

Munster defence coach Denis Leamy before the United Rugby Championship match between Ulster and Munster at Kingspan Stadium in Belfast. (Photo By Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile via Getty Images)

Munster defence coach Denis Leamy has signed a two-year contract extension with the province.

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The former Ireland and Munster No 8 has taken charge of the 2023 United Rugby Championship winners’ defence for the last two-and-a-half years after joining Graham Rowntree’s coaching staff in 2022 following the Englishman’s appointment as head coach.

The shock sacking of Rowntree in October has thrown the Munster coaching team into turmoil though, with forwards coach Andi Kyriacou also departing Thomond Park recently. 

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      Munster have got their rebuild underway, however, and have announced Leamy’s new deal a day after Alex Codling was announced as their forwards coach consultant.

      Leamy has masterminded the most frugal defence in the URC over the past two seasons since arriving from Leinster, conceding the fewest points in both the Championship-winning season and last campaign, where they crashed out in the semi-finals.

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      Munster are yet to announce who Rowntree’s successor will be, though head of rugby operations Ian Costello has held the role on an interim basis.

      The two-time European champions are currently sat in 12th place in the URC ladder with only two wins from their opening six matches. They host the Lions on Saturday as they look to arrest a three-match losing streak.

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      Following the match against the South African outfit, the province will face Stade Francais and Castres in the Investec Champions Cup.

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      Ed the Duck 16 minutes ago
      'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

      Started well but wobbled when you mentioned Irish club money (it’s all union owned with state help) and lost it completely talking about offshore accounts.


      That said, NZ have been phenomenally good at what they’ve done but it’s become a lot more difficult to be out in front and that isn’t going to change for them. They need to focus on the pacific 6N and monetise Japan but SA are the powerhouse and will stay that way when they monetise their certain involvement in a 7N comp, which will also boost English and French resources!

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      Ed the Duck 22 minutes ago
      'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

      No I don’t. Point me to any discontent from the French about this? Sure the players have understandably said they’d love to go but that’s the sum total of it on the NH side. Everyone understands the decision making dynamic and the factors driving it. As you’ve already conceded above, NZR were also aware of exactly what was coming.

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      BC 23 minutes ago
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      Ed the Duck 27 minutes ago
      'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

      Cooperation would be an interesting description of that relationship, the power sits with the money and that’s the club owners.

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      Ed the Duck 31 minutes ago
      'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

      Ok, so you tell me why the top 20 French players will be rested for this tour. Explain what the context is and what the decision making process of all the key parties was?

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      CV 3 hours ago
      'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

      You can’t suddenly have a national club game in NZ. Still, our model in NZ is too expensive to run. 26 provincial unions, a Maori union a school union and probably a university union too, all held up by NZR if they make a loss, who would be in dire straits without the Silver Lake money themselves NZR contracts and pays our SR players… And one team has to bring most of the cash in by playing 13 or 14 tests a season. We can’t keep going like that.

      French club money hasn’t done much for their test sides because their clubs never cared much for the national team. They got foreign players in all the time (at the expense of home grown players) until they were forced by the FFR to select 15 home grown players for the matchday 23 in 2017. Only then they started to invest in academies. France have been in every U20 WC final since 2019 and only lost one. And the FFR and clubs actually started to work together, which resulted in France sending development sides on their July tours for years now. It’s only just started. French rugby is a beast and it’s awake now.

      Clubs in Europe are there for themselves, in every sport. Not for the national team. That’s the union’s or federation’s job. EPL clubs don’t care much about the FA either. Most only field 2 or 3 Englsh players every game.

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      CV 4 hours ago
      'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

      I think we’ll find out in a few months. France will be competitive. Clubs don’t run players into the ground like they used and rest them more. Last weekend, Toulouse rested their test players against Bordeaux. No Ntamack, Mauvaka, Kinghorn, Capuozzo…. Bordeaux played LBB and Penaud, but took them off once they had a good lead.

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      CV 4 hours ago
      'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

      A strong comp has the best players in it and they’re from everywhere. That doesn’t mean you win a WC… Based on your logic, England or Spain should win every FIFA WC and the US every basketball WC. They don’t. In latest FIFA WC final, only two players that came on the park, played in their domestic league (two Frenchmen), the others didn’t.

      5 out of 10 RWCs were won by teams with most of their players in SR, I would even argue 4 out of 10. For the first three SR did not exist, England won one, and of the last two SA won, they had their best players based outside SR with their 2019 win and weren’t even in SR for the last one.

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      J Marc 4 hours ago
      'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

      Hum, maybe after answering every day to the same questions, players say what the journo wish to hear….

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