Munster Rugby v Harlequins Match Programme

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PRESIDENT’S WELCOME 

and the entire squad best wishes and success 

in today’s game and the European campaign 

ahead. It seems strange for all of us not to 

be there in person for a European game but 

hopefully sometime soon we will be back in 

the stands and terraces, cold but happy and 

shouting on the team. In the meantime, there 

are 800 or so in the stands, who can’t shout, 

sing or make noise but are there in spirit! Well 

done to all! 

This evening we welcome Paul Gustard and his 

Harlequins team to Thomond Park for the first 

game in this year’s Heineken Champions Cup. 

An extended welcome to Jerry Flannery who 

needs no introduction to Munster or Thomond 

Park. This evening’s game will be one of mixed 

emotions for Fla, but he is here to get a job 

done and no doubt will have a catch up after 

the game with his many friends within Munster. 

Having completed a block of games in the 

Guinness PRO14 and sitting on top of Conference 

B with 7 wins from 7, Munster will want to keep 

that momentum up going into this game. Both 

teams are well aware of how important that first 

game and first win is in this competition. Both 

Munster and Harlequins have a long and proud 

history in this prestigious competition and this 

game has all the elements to be a hard-fought 

and highly competitive game. 

Johann and all the coaches welcome back the 

players from international duty and selection 

cannot be easy with so many players in a good 

run of form for province and country. I’m sure 

you will join me in wishing Johann, his coaches 

Congratulations to our own Conor Murray on his 

inclusion in World Rugby's Team of the Decade 

for 2010-2019 earlier this week. It's a wonderful 

accolade for Conor and well deserved. On 

behalf of everyone in Munster Rugby, we are all 

very proud of you. 

The domestic game has moved on slightly with 

training now allowed in pods of 15 and noncontact 

rugby. While this is not where we would 

like to be, for the moment it's all we can do and 

hopefully in the weeks and months ahead we 

will see things opening up and getting back to 

some sort of normal. 

Our thanks to our main sponsor Bank of Ireland, 

our kit supplier adidas and all our sponsors for 

their continued support. 

Have a very happy Christmas, hope to see you 

all soon. Stay positive, stay strong and stay 

safe. 

To the brave and faithful nothing is impossible. 

Sean McCullough 

President Munster Branch IRFU 

President: Sean McCullough | Vice President: Ger McNamara | Junior Vice President: Michael Carroll 

Hon. Secretary: Muiris Mahon| Hon. Treasurer: Tom Kinirons 

Chief Executive Officer: Dr. Ian Flanagan | Head Coach: Johann van Graan | Team Manager: Niall O’Donovan 


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EPCR CHAIRMAN’S WELCOME 

Less than eight continuing their European adventure in the 

weeks after Exeter knockout rounds of the Challenge Cup. 

Chiefs became the 

twelfth club to lift 

this prestigious 

trophy in Bristol, 

the tournament 

kicks off again 

with an exciting 

new format to meet the challenges that club 

rugby has been presented by the containment 

of the COVID-19 pandemic. Wherever you are 

watching the action, the whole EPCR team joins 

me in hoping that you enjoy it. 

When the global health crisis struck, we 

were well on course to have the final of this 

tournament in 2019/20 watched live in the 

stadium by a capacity crowd in Marseille. As we 

set out on the pathway to the Stade Vélodrome 

again this term, we will not be swayed from 

our purpose of lobbying for fans to return to 

stadiums across Europe. 

We believe that it is essential for the sport and 

for the mental health of a public and of clubs 

who have suffered enough in recent months. 

Of course, we say that believing that this can 

be achieved safely and consistently with 

guidelines of various governments across other 

industries. 

European club rugby tournaments will be played 

across eight weekends on an exceptional basis 

this season and that means 24 clubs lining up 

in two pools of this Heineken Champions Cup. 

With no repeats of domestic matches in the pool 

stage, each club will play two opponents home 

and away in the December and January rounds. 

Then, the top four classified in each pool will 

head through to a new, two-legged quarter-final 

with the next-best four clubs in each section 

The back-to-back weekends that kick off the 

season give some mouthwatering clashes for 

us to savour the 25th season of Heineken’s 

association with the tournament. Last season’s 

quarter-final and semi-final are immediately 

repeated as Toulouse take on Ulster Rugby 

in Belfast followed by holders Exeter Chiefs 

at home. There’s a re-run of the classic 2011 

showpiece between Leinster Rugby and 

Northampton Saints and Challenge Cup holders 

Bristol Bears take on European heavyweights 

ASM Clermont Auvergne as well as Connacht 

Rugby, which will be a reunion for Pat Lam, 

among others. 

There is no doubting in the quality of the matches 

as this tournament goes from strength-tostrength. 

We thank our broadcast partners – BT 

Sport, Channel 4, Virgin Media, beIN SPORTS 

and France Télévisions domestically – for their 

dedication to taking the action to homes across 

the world, which has been appreciated even 

more during the pandemic. 

We share this journey with you, the fans, but 

also with the support of partners Tissot, the 

Financial Times, Gilbert and Kappa, and hope 

to be in your company soon once more as we 

make our way through what promises to be an 

exciting 2020/21 season. 

Yours in Rugby, 

Simon Halliday 

Chairman, EPCR 


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MUNSTER v HARLEQUINS 

PREVIEW 

This weekend a new European adventure 

begins in a new look Heineken Champions Cup. 

24 teams have been drawn in two Pools and 

each will play four pool games – two home and 

two away. 

The top four teams in each Pool will qualify for 

the quarter-finals, which will be played over two 

legs on a home and away basis in April 2021. 

Alongside Munster and Harlequins in Pool B 

are defending champions Exeter Chiefs and last 

year’s finalists Racing 92. The pool also includes 

Lyon, ASM Clermont Auvergne, Toulouse, 

Ulster, Connacht, Bristol Bears, Gloucester, and 

Glasgow Warriors. 

LAST 3 CHAMPIONS CUP MEETINGS 

07.04.13 

Harlequins 12-18 Munster Rugby (QF) 

30.04.11 

Munster Rugby 20-12 Harlequins 

15.01.05 

Harlequins 10-18 Munster Rugby 

HEAD TO HEAD 6 2 0 

Munster wins 

Harlequins wins 

Draws 

MATCH FACTS 

• Munster and Harlequins have met seven 

times before in the Heineken Champions 

Cup pool stages, with the Irish province 

winning each of the last six matches; five 

of their previous seven clashes have been 

decided by a single-digit margin. 

• Munster are unbeaten in their last 15 home 

games in the Heineken Champions Cup, 

keeping their opponents to seven points or 

fewer in four of the last five. 

• Harlequins have won only one of their last 

nine away games in Ireland in the Heineken 

Champions Cup but three of their last four 

defeats there have come by a margin of just 

one point. 

• Munster were the only side not to score 

a try in the opening quarter of a match in 

the Heineken Champions Cup last season, 

however they conceded just one try in that 

same period, the joint fewest of any side 

(level with Montpellier). 

• Munster’s CJ Stander made 120 carries in 

the Heineken Champions Cup last season, 

more than any other player in 2019/20. 


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MURRAY NAMED 

IN TEAM OF THE DECADE 

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Earlier this week Conor Murray was named in 

World Rugby’s Team of the Decade (2010-2019), 

after a brilliant ten years with Munster, Ireland 

and the British & Irish Lions. 

Murray was named alongside All Blacks legend 

Dan Carter in the half-backs as part of a starstudded 

line-up that included seven All Blacks, 

Australian’s David Pocock at No. 6 and Italy’s 

Sergio Parisse named at No. 8. 

Conor has played 87 times for his country, 

scoring 14 tries and kicking five conversions 

and five penalties. The 31-year-old was most 

recently part of Andy Farrell’s Autumn Nations 

Cup squad and played against Scotland, 

Georgia, England and Wales. He kicked 8 points 

off the tee when he stepped into the flyhalf 

position in the game against Wales. 

He made his Ireland debut against France in 

2011 and was first choice scrum-half in his first 

Rugby World later that year at the age of just 22. 

His rise continued with selection for the 

victorious 2013 British & Irish Lions tour to 

Australia and Murray once again earned a 

starting place, featuring in seven of the touring 

games including two Test matches. 

Six Nations titles followed in 2014 and 2015 with 

the Grand Slam captured in 2018. 

He has played in three World Cups and featured 

in Ireland’s first ever win over the Springboks 

on South African soil in June 2016. 

Murray was a standout performer in Ireland’s 

first win over the All Blacks in Chicago in 2016 

and starred in the Series win away to Australia 

in 2018, the country’s first series victory in 

Australia for 39 years. 

He was selected on his second Lions tour in 

2017 and started all three Tests as the tourists 

drew the Series against the All Blacks. 

In scoring a try in the second Test, Murray 

became the first international player in history 

to score four tries against the All Blacks – three 

for Ireland and one for the Lions. 

A product of St. Munchin’s and Garryowen, 

Murray is a Greencore Munster Rugby Academy 

graduate and made his senior debut against 

Connacht in April 2010. The Patrickswell man 

won Munster’s Player of the Year award in 2014 

and has made 141 appearances for the province 

to date, scoring 28 tries, three penalties and 

three conversions. 

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THE INSIDE 

TRACK 

with Mike Haley 

On coming back into the Heineken Champions 

Cup competition… 

“We’ve had some really tough tests in the 

PRO14 – Scarlets away, Edinburgh at home 

– and then the internationals left, and we 

really picked up the pace whilst carrying on 

for Munster. We are in a really good position 

now with all the internationals coming back 

and feeding back in the squad. We are raring 

to go. It’s Champions Cup weekend and we 

cannot wait to get into it. The only downside 

is that there won’t be a crowd at Thomond. It 

would be all the better having it packed out but 

there’s a still a buzz, still a special feeling so 

we can’t wait. I think it’s something that’s built 

into the bones here, especially by the fans. The 

fans have made it this special, and that’s been 

brought on by the players and we understand 

we have a responsibility on us. It’s driven by 

an expectation of past glories at Munster, and 

that this is a competition that we want to be the 

best at. Whatever it is, when this week comes 

around you can just feel the intensity rises, the 

buzz rises.” 

On Munster’s current run of good results… 

“We’ve got a good blend on how we are 

playing, how we are defending. We are adding 

strings to our bow constantly. We are not 

sitting on performances - we are constantly 

trying to get better. I think that’s shown in 

the performances since the first game of the 

season. We’ve rounded ourselves off and we 

are getting better each week. The good thing 

is we’ve had a wide variety of different types 

of games. We’ve had open games; we’ve had 

really poor weather games where we’ve had to 

grind it out and we’ve shown we can mix up our 

game. That’s been one of the best things that’s 

been happening for us this season.” 

On playing Harlequins this evening… 

“They had a tough game against Exeter first 

up. Obviously, Exeter are a quality side, and 

everybody knows that. They were obviously 

disappointed with that, but they bounced back 

over the last couple of weeks and had some 

very good performances. In fairness, they’ve 

just started their league campaign but in reality, 

the end of last season wasn’t that long ago for 


them either, so they’ve had a couple of weeks 

off and rolled back into it. They are going to 

be in very good form, and we are expecting a 

massive challenge this weekend. They’ve got 

a number of very experienced players across 

the backline, and an exciting pack. Obviously, 

there’ll be a couple of older heads coming back 

to Thomond like Jerry (Flannery), and Jack 

Stafford who was an academy player. They are 

a quality side. They’ve shown they are there to 

compete and we are looking at all aspects of 

their play and making sure we know what they 

are about.” 

On enjoying his rugby at the moment… 

“I’m just enjoying playing rugby. It’s good 

fun. It’s a good brand of rugby to be playing. 

Especially when you’re winning, it’s good fun. 

I’m just enjoying each game instead of worrying 

about anything else. When I’m in that game, I’m 

enjoying it to the max, that’s been working well 

for me.” 

On the impact some of the up-and-coming 

young players in the squad have been having… 

“Personally, I don’t think it’s been much of 

a surprise. I think being here and training 

every single day you see that the young lads 

are there, they fill in here and there in games 

where they get their opportunity. When the 

internationals were at camp, and it was a case 

that those guys were gone, and we needed 

everyone to step up. It was a massive challenge 

that we all embraced. It’s a credit to Munster 

on how they feed their academy lads in. When 

it came to the stage where we needed them to 

step up, they were fantastic. You look at the 

likes of Gavin Coombes, Craig Casey, they’ve 

been unbelievable for us for the past few weeks 

– Ben Healy as well. Those young lads – it’s a 

credit to them. They’ve been working hard 

behind the scenes where no one can see, and 

they take their chance when they get it. So it’s 

full praise for them.” 

"When this week comes around you can just feel 

the intensity rises, the buzz rises" 


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THE LOWDOWN 

THE FORM GUIDE 

Harlequins lie in 5th position in the Premiership 

after three rounds, picking up try bonus points 

in their last two games. Harlequins faced 

current Premiership and European champions 

Exeter Chiefs in their season opener, with four 

second half tries from Exeter putting them out 

of sight after just 3 points separated the sides 

at the break. The following week, Harlequins 

got back on track with an impressive 49-29 

win over Northampton Saints, with tries from 

Danny Care, Nathan Earle, Mike Brown, Alex 

Dombrandt, Scott Steele and Marcus Smith, 

who added an additional 19 points off the tee. 

Last Sunday, Harlequins were on the road once 

again, with a visit to Gloucester that saw the 

visitors win 34-24. Smith was again on target, 

kicking 14 points including converting Quins 

four tries, kicking a penalty and a drop goal. 

Prop Joe Marler returns to the side having been 

on duty as part of the England squad for the 

Autumn Nations Cup. Ben Youngs makes his 

50th European appearance this evening while 

back row James Chisholm lines out for the 

100th time for Harlequins. 

THE COACHING TICKET 

Paul Gustard 

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Paul Gustard joined Harlequins as Head of 

Rugby at the start of the 2018/19 season. As a 

player he won four Premiership titles and two 

European Cups in five years with Leicester 

Tigers before moving to London Irish and finally 

Saracens in 2006. Two years later he joined the 

club's coaching team as Assistant First Team 

Coach before taking on the roles of Defence and 

Forwards Coach. In his time as coach he won 

two Premiership titles and a European Cup. He 

joined Eddie Jones's coaching team at the start 

of 2016, helping England win the Grand Slam, 

back-to-back Six Nations titles and a first ever 

series win in Australia. There are some familiar 

faces in his backroom team, none more so than 

former Munster Forwards Coach Jerry Flannery 

who played for Munster 94 times and joined the 

London side earlier this year as Lineout Coach. 

Harlequins record points scorer Nick Evans is 

the Attack & Backs Coach while former Welsh 

international and Lion Adam Jones is the Scrum 

Coach. 

ONE TO WATCH 

ONE TO WATCH 

Marcus Smith 

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Pulling the strings in the No. 10 jersey is 

21-year-old Marcus Smith, already with 89 

caps for his club and scoring 41 points in his 

last three appearances. He made his senior 

debut during the 2017/18 season, becoming 

the second-youngest Premiership debutant 

in history, behind George Ford, when he lined 

out against London Irish aged 18 years and 200 

days in September 2017. He earned a call up for 

England against the Barbarians in June 2019 

and put in a Man of the Match performance. He 

was also named in the England wider training 

squad for the 2019 Rugby World Cup. 


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Shane made his Ireland debut 

against Georgia last month 

DALY’S STAR 

ON THE RISE 

Corkman Shane Daly became the latest 

Munster player to play for Ireland last month 

when he came off the bench against Georgia in 

the Autumn Nations Cup. 

For the 23-year-old Bishopstown man, it has 

been an interesting road travelled. The versatile 

back has enjoyed a meteoric rise over the last 

12 months as he established himself as an 

important member of Johann van Graan’s 

squad in the 2019/20 campaign where he made 

16 appearances for Munster which included a 

Heineken Champions Cup debut in the clash 

with Racing 92 in Paris. 

Since graduating from Cork’s famed rugby 

nursery of Presentation College, Daly has 

enjoyed a whirlwind journey as he balanced his 

studies in Finance at UCC with a memorable run 

with the Ireland U20s to the Junior World Cup 

final in 2016. There was also life in the Munster 

Rugby Academy, travelling the globe with the 

Ireland 7s and helping Cork Constitution to AIL 

success to contend with. 

make a name for himself in Cork rugby circles 

as assistant coach with Cork Con and former 

Munster out-half Jonny Holland recalls. 

“There would be a big Cork contingent who 

have been singing his praises for a while here 

as well, it would be no surprise to them,” 

Holland tells Munster Rugby. “I think he’s such 

an exciting player. He’s put a lot of effort into it 

as everyone else does. It’s nice to see someone 

with a success story.” 

One man who has experience with identifying 

talent is Paul Barr. Now working with Bandon 

RFC, the experienced coach helped oversee 

Daly’s development at Pres and subsequently 

at Con. 

“Shane would have been more of a soccer 

player when he came to Pres first,” Barr says. 

Shane in action for Presentation 

Brothers College Cork 

Daly was a talent at numerous sports in his early 

years, particularly in soccer and Gaelic football, 

but it was midway through his time in Pres that 

the oval ball became his sole focus having first 

experienced the sport with Highfield RFC. 

Although Daly failed to taste Senior Cup success 

with Pres in 2014 and 2015, he was beginning to 

“His older brother was also good at soccer and 

rugby. James focussing on rugby over soccer 


maturity, technical skill, a mental work-rate to 

hone your skill level to the maximum of their 

potential. I think that’s very important for young 

lads that they have an ethic, a personal ethic to 

maximise their skill level. I think Shane had that 

appetite as did Johnny a generation before him. 

I think that set Shane apart somewhat. Also, 

physically, he’s very, very talented. He’s a hell 

of an athlete.” 

Both Holland and Barr agree that the Ireland 

7s programme played a big role in Daly’s 

development as it allowed him to hone and 

develop the core skills of the sport which he 

could then transfer back to the 15s game. 

Daly in action for Ireland 7s at 

the World Rugby Sevens in 2018 

probably guided Shane to some degree. I think 

really only from Bowen Shield on that he really 

focussed on rugby at Pres. He was take it or 

leave it up until then, really.” 

Although Daly’s talent on the pitch was evident 

for all to see, it was his attitude and willingness 

to learn which really stood out to Barr. In fact, 

after Daly suffered more Senior Cup heartbreak 

with Pres, Barr recalls their conversation the 

day after: 

“Obviously, he was very disappointed, but I 

remember the line of the conversation, Shane 

reminded me of it again recently, I said, 

you know, losing a Schools Cup is a huge 

disappointment for any young lad, but I really 

believe he has bigger fish to fry in rugby. I had 

the exact same conversation and I used the 

same phrase with Johnny Sexton in the years 

previously when I was head coach of Leinster 

Schools and Johnny got injured in the warm-up 

in an Interpro against Munster, played in Cork 

Con, ironically.’ 

“They’re different players but at that agegroup, 

that 18-year-old (bracket), you can 

see a spark, that physical talent, that mental 

Daly’s Ireland debut was a special moment 

not only for the player but for his family, 

friends and all of those who played a role in his 

development. Daly has said previously that Barr 

had a major influence on his development, but 

the Bandon RFC coach immediately deflects 

any credit which is put his way. 

“He’s probably being a bit too gracious with 

that. I always think the players’ parents have a 

bigger influence. They’re the ones who wash 

the kit and bring it to training when he’s a young 

lad. Shane was so receptive to information, so 

willing to learn, it was never a chore to work 

with Shane Daly that’s for sure. Really super 

personality in the changing room and a great 

guy to work with. For him to have said that, it 

wouldn’t be lost on you in fairness.” 

And how does he think Daly will adapt to the 

demands of senior international rugby? 

“I was fortunate in my time with Leinster 

Schools, Munster Schools and Irish Schools 

over the years to have coached a lot of his 

teammates. I think Shane is well able, 100% in 

that company. 

“No doubt.” 


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JAMES MAGUIRE 

Age: 9 

From: Blackrock, Cork 

School: Crab Lane National School 

Hobbies: Rugby, soccer, GAA 

Favourite Player: Peter O’Mahony 

SAM LEHANE 

Age: 9 

From: Nohoval, Co. Cork 

School: Rennies National School 

Hobbies: Playing rugby with Kinsale RFC, 

GAA, athletics 

Favourite Player: Andrew Conway 


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STEPHEN ARCHER 

Prop 

29.01.88 

H: 1.88m 

W: 120.91kg 

Hons: Ire (2 caps) 

Hooker 

06.08.99 

H:1.83m 

W: 98kg 

Hons: Ire U20 

DIARMUID BARRON 

TADHG BEIRNE 

Lock / Back Row 

08.01.92 

H: 1.98 m 

W: 113.18 kg 


Flanker 

15.02.91 

H: 1.76 m 

W: 98 kg 

Hons: ~ 

CHRIS CLOETE 

Back Row 

11.12.1997 

H: 1.98m 

W: 110kg 

Hons: Ire U20 

GAVIN COOMBES 

JAMES CRONIN 

Prop 

23.11.90 

H: 1.80 m 

W: 113 kg 


Lock / Back Row 

03.08.85 

H: 1.91 m 

W: 111 kg 

Hons: Ire (1 cap) 

BILLY HOLLAND 

DAVE KILCOYNE 

Prop 

14.12.88 

H: 1.83 m 

W: 112 kg 


JEAN KLEYN 

Lock 

26.08.93 

H: 2.03 m 

W: 125 kg 


Prop 

06.04.99 

H: 1.85m 

W: 115kg 

Hons: ~ 

KEYNAN KNOX 

Prop 

22.07.95 

H: 1.85 m 

W: 120 kg 

Hons: Ire U20 

JEREMY LOUGHMAN 

Hooker 

12.10.92 

H: 1.84 m 

W: 108 kg 

Hons: NZ U20 

RHYS MARSHALL 

Hooker 

16.04.91 

H: 1.80 m 

W: 107 kg 

Hons: Ire U19 

KEVIN O’BYRNE 

Prop 

13.07.95 

H: 1.78 m 

W: 110 kg 

Hons: Ire U20 

LIAM O’CONNOR 

TOMMY O’DONNELL 

Back Row 

21.05.87 

H: 1.85 m 

W: 107 kg 


JACK O’DONOGHUE 

Back Row 

08.02.94 

H: 1.91 m 

W: 107 kg 


PETER O’MAHONY 

Back Row 

17.09.89 

H: 1.91 m 

W: 106 kg 


Back Row 

01.10.98 

H: 1.88m 

W: 100kg 

Hons: Ire U20 

JACK O’SULLIVAN 

JOHN RYAN 

Prop 

02.08.88 

H: 1.83 m 

W: 117 kg 


Prop 

28.10.97 

H:1.83m 

W: 123.18kg 

Hons: USA U20 

ROMAN SALANOA 

NIALL SCANNELL 

Hooker 

08.04.92 

H: 1.85 m 

W: 109 kg 


RG SNYMAN 

Lock 

29.01.95 

H: 2.06 m 

W: 116 kg 

Hons: SA (23 caps) 

CJ STANDER 

Back Row 

05.04.90 

H: 1.85 m 

W: 114 kg 


Lock 

11.12.97 

H:1.93 m 

W: 111.82 kg 

Hons: Ire U20 

FINEEN WYCHERLEY 

FORWARDS 

Munster Rugby Squad - 2020/21 Season 


JOEY CARBERY 

Fly Half 

01.11.95 

H: 1.83 m 

W: 85kg 


Scrum Half 

19.04.99 

H: 1.65 m 

W: 75kg 

Hons: Ire U20 

CRAIG CASEY 

ANDREW CONWAY 

Full Back / Wing 

11.07.91 

H: 1.80 m 

W: 89 kg 


LIAM COOMBES 

Full Back / Wing 

01.05.97 

H: 1.91m 

W: 89 kg 

Hons: Ire U20 

Scrum Half 

08.12.92 

H: 1.73 m 

W: 83 kg 

Hons: Ire Clubs 

NEIL CRONIN 

Wing / Centre 

19.12.96 

H: 1.91 m 

W: 91 kg 


SHANE DALY 

DAMIAN DE ALLENDE 

Centre 

25/11/1991 

H: 1.91 m 

W: 105 kg 

Hons: SA (47 caps) 

KEITH EARLS 

Universal Back 

02.10.87 

H: 1.78 m 

W: 90 kg 


CHRIS FARRELL 

Centre 

16.03.93 

H: 1.93 m 

W: 110 kg 


Full Back 

26.10.96 

H:1.85m 

W: 95 kg 

Hons: Eng U20 

MATT GALLAGHER 

Centre 

10.12.94 

H: 1.85 m 

W: 100 kg 

Hons: Ire U20 

DAN GOGGIN 

Full Back 

28.06.94 

H: 1.91 m 

W: 93 kg 


MIKE HALEY 

RORY SCANNELL 

CALVIN NASH 

CONOR MURRAY 

ALEX MCHENRY 

NICK MCCARTHY 

JJ HANRAHAN 

Fly Half / Centre 

27.07.92 

H: 1.83 m 

W: 93 kg 

Hons: Emerging Ireland 

Scrum Half 

25.03.95 

H: 1.8m 

W: 84 kg 

Hons: Ire U20 

Centre 

07.10.97 

H: 1.88m 

W: 95kg 

Hons: Ire U20 

Scrum Half 

20.04.89 

H: 1.88 m 

W: 94 kg 


Wing 

08.08.97 

H: 1.78 m 

W: 90 kg 

Hons: Ire U20 

Centre 

22.12.93 

H: 1.80 m 

W: 98 kg 


Wing 

05.05.93 

H: 1.85 m 

W: 95 kg 


DARREN SWEETNAM 

BACKS 


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MUNSTER RUGBY 

STARTING XV 

James Cronin Kevin O'Byrne Stephen Archer Jean Kleyn Tadhg Beirne 

Gavin Coombes 

Peter 

O'Mahony (C) 

CJ Stander 

Conor Murray 

JJ Hanrahan 

Keith Earls 

Damian de 

Allende 

Chris Farrell 

Andrew Conway 

Mike Haley 

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Replacements 

16. Rhys Marshall 17. Josh Wycherley 

18. John Ryan 19. Fineen Wycherley 

20. Jack O'Donoghue 21. Craig Casey 

22. Ben Healy 23. Rory Scannell 


HARLEQUINS 

STARTING XV 

Joe Marler 

Scott Baldwin 

Wilco Louw 

Hugh Tizard 

Glen Young 

James 

Chisholm 

Will Evans 

Alex 

Dombrandt (C) 

Danny Care 

Marcus Smith 

Cadan Murley 

Ben Tapuai 

Luke 

Northmore 

Nathan Earle 

Mike Brown 

Replacements 

16. Elia Elia 17. Santiago Garcia Botta 

18. Fin Baxter 19. Richard De Carpentier 

20. Tom Lawday 21. Scott Steele 

22. James Lang 23. Ross Chisholm 

MATCH OFFICIALS 

Referee: Pascal Gauzere (FRA) 

AR1: Sean Gallagher (IRE) 

AR2: Paul Haycock (IRE) 

TMO: Brian MacNeice (IRE) 


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BEST TRY 

The best tries, place kicks and drop goals from 

25 years of the Heineken Champions Cup are 

being voted for in the exciting new Tissot 10s 

series – and you can have your say in the winner 

on official digital channels of the tournament. 

Takudzwa Ngwenya’s stunning try for Biarritz 

Olympique in their 2009/10 quarter-final win 

over Ospreys landed the accolade of the top try 

from an outstanding shortlist as EPCR team up 

with Official Partner Tissot to bring you some 

top class action from a quarter of a century of 

elite club rugby. 

The shortlist is revealed with a series of video 

vignettes on HeinekenChampionsCup.com and 

official social media channels before a public 

vote for the fans, which is combined with the 

views of an expert to determine the winner. 

European Cup winner Bryan Habana was on 

hand as Ngwenya’s try was selected and the 

countdown of the best place kicks has already 

started. 

Fans who have their say on their favourite 

selection enter a draw to win a Tissot watch as 

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2010 

TAKUDZWA NGWENYA 

BIARRITZ OLYMPIQUE V OSPREYS 


ASHTON’S 

THOMOND PARK 

EXPERIENCE 

Photo: Steve Bardens/Getty Images 

Europe’s top try scorer Chris Ashton is no 

stranger to Thomond Park, and although not 

in the line-up today, has plenty of experience 

playing at the coalface of this competition, 

having won consecutive Heineken Champions 

Cup titles with Saracens in 2016 and 2017. He 

joined Harlequins earlier this year from Sale 

Sharks and has made 7 appearances for the 

side. The 33-year-old rugby league convert 

played 44 times for England, scoring 20 tries. 

He leads the way as the top try scorer in Europe 

with 40 tries to date. 

"On facing Munster today in Thomond Park... 

“Munster have started really well in the league 

and Thomond Park, whether full or empty, is 

always going to be a very difficult place to go 

and get a win. 

“I remember Quins did it a few years ago. They 

went and got the win which was unusual, but 

there are some players here that have been 

there and done it. I’ve, unfortunately, not been 

able to go and do it. So, it is a hard place to go 

and get a win, and, like I’ve said, the Champions 

Cup means an awful lot to Munster. So, we’ll be 

expecting both barrels come that game.” 

On the switch from playing Premiership Rugby 

to the Champions Cup… 

“Yes, the Champions Cup is just a good 

breakaway from the league, and the different 

pressures that it brings. It’s kind of a place where 

you can go and play the best teams, and play 

with a different outlook on the kind of game you 

want to play. You can afford to play with a little 

bit more style and freedom. 

“You can chance your arm a little bit more and 

try to win games, maybe differently to how you 

would in a Premiership game. So, it definitely 

offers that, and that makes it exciting in itself for 

the players and wanting to play in it.” 

On his memories of playing in this competition... 

“One of my first memories, funnily enough, 

would be against Munster. Having come from 

Rugby League, always playing against your local 

team, really, to be able to leave Northampton 

and go across to Thomond Park, and just 

experiencing Thomond Park when Munster were 

at the top and with a full crowd, it was something 

I’d never experienced before. 

“Just the passion, just the whole atmosphere of 

the tournament was something I hadn’t expected 

and didn’t have an idea about. So, to be able to 

start it off in such an amazing place, and just get 

a feel for it that way, you could tell there was a 

dramatic difference from the Champions Cup to 

your normal Premiership games. 

“It’s something you want to get excited about, 

and you want to prove yourself in front of 

different teams all across Europe, and the only 

platform to do that is through the Champions 

Cup.” 


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For the fifth consecutive season, the Champions 

Try of the Round competition will bring fans and 

leading broadcasters together to decide the best 

score of each weekend of matches in the Heineken 

Champions Cup, giving supporters the chance to 

also win some top-class rugby prizes. 

Racing 92 dotted down for some outstanding tries 

in 2019/20, with Teddy Thomas twice lauded for 

different scores against Munster Rugby in the pool 

stage before Juan Imhoff’s sensational, matchwinning 

try in the Paris semi-final against Saracens 

plucked the Try of the Season award having earned 

praise from Channel 4’s Nolli Waterman, Virgin 

Media’s Alan Quinlan and the fans. 

Imhoff’s success followed Nick Abendanon 

(2016/17), Tadhg Beirne (2017/18) and Maxime 

Médard (2018/19) to the annual accolade after 

impressive growth of engagement with the public 

vote through HeinekenChampionsCup.com. On the 

Monday after each round of matches in European 

club rugby’s blue riband tournament, a shortlist of 

five tries is compiled by EPCR’s editorial team and 

opened to the public in the vote. 

Enjoy some high-calibre rugby and HAVE YOUR SAY 

in the winner! 

CHAMPIONS TRY OF THE ROUND WINNERS 2019/20 

Round 1: James Lang 

ASM Clermont Auvergne v Harlequins 

Round 2: Teddy Thomas 

Munster Rugby v Racing 92 

Round 3: James Lowe 

Northampton Saints v Leinster Rugby 

Round 4: Lewis Ludlow 

Connacht Rugby v Gloucester Rugby 

Round 5: Teddy Thomas 

Racing 92 v Munster Rugby 

Round 6: Luke Northmore 

Harlequins v ASM Clermont Auvergne 

Quarter-Final: Alex Goode 

Leinster Rugby v Saracens 

Semi-Final / Champions Try of the Season: 

Juan Imhoff 

Racing 92 v Saracens 

EPCRUGBY.COM/TOTR 


IN STATS – SEASON SO FAR 

Munster have made the perfect start to the 

PRO14 season as seven wins on the spin have 

seen the province open up a healthy lead at the 

top of Conference B. 

43 players have played their part with seven 

members of the Greencore Munster Rugby 

Academy involved so far this year. 

Johann van Graan’s side have scored an 

average of 34 points per game, conceding an 

average of 19 points per game. 

Munster have scored 29 tries in seven games, 

an average of just over four per match. 

Conference rivals Scarlets, Edinburgh and 

Cardiff Blues have all been beaten along with 

Glasgow Warriors, Ospreys, Dragons and Zebre 

Take a look at some of the key stats, facts and 

figures following our impressive starts below. 

Minutes Played # 

Jack O’Donoghue 7 games – 463 minutes 

Damian de Allende 6 games – 426 minutes 

Craig Casey 

7 games – 423 minutes 

Rory Scannell 

6 games – 417 minutes 

Defenders Beaten # 

Damian de Allende 

Mike Haley 13 

Craig Casey 12 

Clean Breaks # 

Damian de Allende 6 

Matt Gallagher & Dan Goggin 5 

Calvin Nash 4 

Most Tackles # 

Jack O'Donoghue 47 

Gavin Coombes 44 

Billy Holland 41 

Turnovers Won # 

James Cronin 4 


16 (2nd most across the PRO14) 

Debuts 

Senior players: Matt Gallagher & Roman Salanoa 

Academy players: Thomas Ahern, Jack Daly, 

Seán French and Josh Wycherley 

Milestones 

JJ Hanrahan - 100th Guinness PRO14 appearance 

v Glasgow Warriors in November 

Metres Gained # 

Mike Haley 232 

Matt Gallagher 206 


Carries 

Gavin Coombes leads the way with 71 carries in 

seven games, the third highest across the PRO14 

Player of the Match Awards # 

Craig Casey 2 


JJ Hanrahan 1 

Jack O’Donoghue 1 

Leading Scorers # 

Ben Healy 

57 points 

JJ Hanrahan 

42 points 

Gavin Coombes 

6 tries 

Kevin O’Byrne 

3 tries 

Passes 

Craig Casey has made the most passes of any 

Munster player with 324 in his 423 minutes 

on the pitch 


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Muskerry RFC 

#MunsterStartsHere 

RUGBY DEVELOPMENT NEWS 

MUSKERRY RFC PLAYERS HELP ST. 

VINCENT DE PAUL 

Although rugby may be on hold for the moment 

that does not mean the players from Muskerry 

RFC have not been busy. On recent Friday 

evenings, players from the club’s Junior 1 

and Junior 2 squads have given up their time 

to help the St. Vincent de Paul charity. The 

masked and socially distanced squads, led by 

club captain Joe Tracey, have donated the time 

they would have spent training this month to 

pack Christmas food hampers for families in 

need. They even chose to skip watching the 

recent Ireland v Wales game to keep up the 

momentum. Kate Durrant from the St. Vincent 

de Paul said, “We could not do it without help 

from voluntary groups like Muskerry RFC.” 

minis and youth players. With COVID-19 Health 

& Safety Plans in place, clubs and schools can 

work within government guidelines to continue 

as a hub for physical and mental well-being for 

school-aged children. Non-contact sessions can 

be run within a pod of 15 including coaches and 

COVID-19 Club Compliance officers. The last 

number of weeks saw our staff working closely 

with clubs and schools among them including 

Ursuline Secondary School in Thurles, Nenagh 

Ormond RFC, St. Munchin’s College in Limerick, 

Villiers School in Limerick, Mallow RFC, Thurles 

RFC, Richmond RFC, Glenstal Abbey School, 

Bandon Grammar, Ballina Killaloe RFC, Midleton 

RFC, Mallow Convent National School, St. 

Finbarr’s National School in Bantry, Carrigaline 

RUGBY DEVELOPMENT WORK 

CONTINUES 

Munster Rugby Development Staff were busy 

throughout last month as they continued to 

work with clubs and schools by hosting noncontact 

development games and activities for 

St. Munchins Junior Cup players 


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OF EUROPEAN RUGBY HAS 

NEVER BEEN BETTER 

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Nenagh Ormond U12s in a recent session 

#MunsterStartsHere 

RFC, Carrick-On-Suir RFC, Killarney RFC, Old 

Christians RFC, Tralee RFC, Kilfeacle & District 

RFC, Thomond RFC, Shannon RFC, Garryowen 

FC, St. Marys RFC, Young Munster RFC and 

Mungret Community College. 

Jonny Holland on the importance of nutrition, 

Munster Academy lead physiotherapist Shane 

Malone on injury prevention and rehabilitation, 

Munster Academy S&C coach Cian Gormley 

on fitness and conditioning, Behavioural 

Psychologist and Performance Coach Sana 

Govender presenting on mental health and 

well-being. 

CLUBS TO RECEIVE EMERGENCY 

FUNDING 

ONLINE COACHING & WELL-BEING 

WEBINARS 

Our Women’s Rugby Coaching Webinar series 

began on Wednesday, November 25th which 

focussed on ‘Functional Movement for Rugby’ 

and was aimed at minis and age-grade coaches 

in the women’s game. The second webinar took 

place on Wednesday, December 9th last and 

was aimed at ‘Building the Scrum’. 

Munster Rugby also held two health and wellbeing 

webinars last month in collaboration with 

Clare Local Sports Partnership (LSP) and Kilrush 

RFC. Speakers included former Munster out-half 

The IRFU has allocated €4 million of the €18 

million emergency funding it received from 

Government to help clubs towards the losses 

they suffered due to COVID-19’s impact on club 

rugby activity in 2020. The funding is drawn 

from the Sport Ireland COVID-19 Emergency 

Fund for Sport provided to the IRFU to address 

the existential threat to Irish Rugby across its 

clubs, provinces and national teams. Club 

funding is directly linked to verifiable losses 

submitted by clubs, to the IRFU in a scheme 

administered by the IRFU as part of the 

application process overseen by Sport Ireland. 

All 166 eligible clubs were invited to apply for 

funding. The objective of the process was to 

be accessible, rigorous, equitable and provide 

urgent financial assistance to clubs facing the 

prospect of insolvency or closure in 2020. 


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CLONAKILTY 

RFC 

“PUTTING INCLUSIVITY AT 

THE HEART OF WHAT WE DO” 

“We wanted to put inclusivity at the heart of 

what we do.” These are the words of Clonakilty 

RFC Director of Rugby Neville Burton as he 

begins to explain the excellent work which the 

West Cork club are doing in reaching out to 

marginalised groups in the area. 

On this particular wet and blustery Saturday 

morning, there is a steady stream of parents 

dropping off their children for the day’s first 

of two minis training sessions. The minis 

programme in the club has proved so popular 

that they have had to split the morning into 

two sessions to accommodate the 330 children 

who are involved. Despite many of the club’s 

facilities, including the popular coffee shop, 

remaining closed due to the current government 

restrictions, the grounds of the club are a hive 

of activity and excitement is in the air as the 

children prepare to get their hands on a ball, 

albeit a slippery one. 

Of this excited and giddy group are nine 

enthusiastic children from the Clonakilty Lodge 

Direct Provision Centre: Francesco, Joseph, 

Jamal, Wayne, Cyril, Keith, Lulu, Rihanna 

and Mimi. Many of these children are new to 

the sport and their participation is the result 

of a growing relationship between the club’s 

Community Engagement Officers and Service 

Coordinator for Clonakilty Friends of Asylum 

Seekers, Kitty Sisson. 

“We’ve been getting it off the ground for the 

last three weeks and they’ve been here, and 

they’ve been enjoying themselves. It’s been 

building on an existing relationship that’s been 

happening on an ad-hoc basis for the last few 

years. Over the last few months, in particular 

this year with COVID, has really shown the 

spotlight on Direct Provision and children are 

living in one room. In family groups, they’ve got 

35 bedrooms, they’ve got nearly 100 residents 

and some of the kids here have siblings, two 

or three siblings, and it’s a great opportunity to 

get out and integrate with their peers in a very 

natural way, get the exercise in, really. It’s really 

important.” 

Community Engagement Officer Courtney 

Canning who alongside Sinead Burton is 

spearheading this initiative says that from a 

social and youth development perspective, 

getting these nine children involved on a weekly 

basis is hugely beneficial. 

“I suppose sport and, in this case, rugby, is 

incredibly conducive to creating an atmosphere 

that promotes positive youth development,” 

Canning says. 

“So, the kids that are coming now, socially it’s 

amazing for them. They’re making friends and I 

suppose most importantly they’re having fun. 

Every young kid deserves the right to play with 


their local team. At a local level, we feel that 

it’s very important to do everything we can to 

make sure that right is provided for and make 

it as accessible as possible. That’s the joy of 

volunteerism, seeing smiles on kids’ faces is 

what it’s all about.” 

Reaching out to Clonakilty Friends of Asylum 

Seekers is just one initiative of an overarching 

plan for Clonakilty RFC to be a truly inclusive 

club. A decision was made a number of years 

ago to apply this mantra to both on and off 

the pitch matters, as Director of Rugby Neville 

Burton explains. 

this success has been years in the making. With 

the club’s mini section thriving, Canning hopes 

that this initiative is a stepping stone to other 

projects including reaching out to the LGBT and 

Traveller communities in Clonakilty. 

“We’re not going to stand here and take credit 

for what we haven’t done yet. This is such a new 

initiative and the first thing we have done is to 

reach out to the Friends of Asylum Seekers. It 

has been really, really positive. We have other 

plans, we certainly plan on working with the 

LGBT community here. Our plan is to run a 

Pride Week here in the club which will involve 

all young underage members and the adult 

rugby team wearing the pride colour socks for 

games that they’re playing, hopefully, if they go 

ahead. 

Neville Burton 

“I suppose it has been a strategy that a number 

of us have been working on for many years now 

where we wanted to put inclusivity at the heart 

of what we do,” Neville says. 

“We also plan on working with the Traveller 

community and we also really want to focus 

on mental health because it’s such a big issue 

now. We’re trying to create workshops that will 

help the coaches improve the soft skills of the 

kids intertwined in their training sessions. So, 

improving their confidence, their empathy, their 

trust, their leadership. So as well as making 

young kids here better rugby players, we really 

want to make them better all-round individuals.” 

“That obviously extends to the pitch where 

we’ve got equal playing time for all players. No A 

or B teams all the way to U16, a fully functioning 

girls section. But we also felt that inclusivity 

needed to be something that extended beyond 

the pitch and beyond rugby. We wanted to 

make sure that as part of our strategy that 

everybody in Clonakilty is welcome at the club 

and can be part of our club. So we decided to 

appoint two community engagement officers. 

Courtney Canning and Sinead Burton were 

a super fit because they are both passionate 

about community engagement.” 

The success of the club’s mini section was 

recently recognised by winning the Munster 

Rugby Club Mini Section of the Year award and 

underage chairperson Helen O’Hea says that 

Lulu and Mimi in action at Clonakilty RFC 

As the sun makes a much welcome appearance 

as the first of two minis training sessions begins 

to wind down, the children make their way from 

the pitches with muddy knees and beaming 

smiles. 

This is what it’s all about. 


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2016 2017 2018 

Rugby’s family values have never been more literally 

emphasised than at Bristol’s Ashton Gate Stadium back in 

October. Joe Simmonds was already the Heineken Star of the 

Match before the penalty that took Exeter Chiefs to their first 

European crown against Racing 92 in the final and, soon after, 

brother Sam was presented with the Anthony Foley Memorial 

Trophy as EPCR European Player of the Year. 

The number eight was the tournament’s top try scorer 

during the season, crossing eight times to become the fourth 

Englishman in five seasons to win the prestigious accolade. 

Simmonds was selected by a combination of an expert panel 

deliberating right until the end of the Heineken Champions 

Cup final and more than 20,000 votes cast through 

HeinekenChampionsCup.com. 

This season, stars of the global game will have more intense 

periods to prove they are Europe’s standout player with the 

pool stage of the Heineken Champions Cup played over four 

rounds in December and January on an exceptional basis, 

with an expanded knockout stage leading a path to Marseille 

for Finals Weekend on 21-22 May 2021, before which a list of 

nominees will have been streamlined to five candidates. 

By taking part in the public vote through official channels of 

the tournaments, fans can be in with a chance of winning 

outstanding rugby prizes. 

2019 

2020 

EPCR European 

Player of the Year 

Past Winners 

1995-2010 Ronan O’Gara 

2011 Sean O’Brien 

2012 Rob Kearney 

2013 Jonny Wilkinson 

2014 Steffon Armitage 

2015 Nick Abendanon 

2016 Maro Itoje 

2017 Owen Farrell 

2018 Leone Nakarawa 

2019 Alex Goode 

2020 Sam Simmonds 

E ALLENDE 


AMIAN 

E ALLENDE 

Position: Centre 

DOB: 25 Nov 1991 (age 29) 

From: Cape Town, South Africa 

Height: 1.91m/6’ 3” 

Weight: 105kg/16st 6 lbs 

Honours: South Africa (47 caps), RWC winner, Barbarians 

Munster appearances: 9 

CURRENT SEASON STATS 

Tries: 1 

Metres gained: 175 

Carries: 39 

Try assists: 2 

Clean breaks: 6 

Offloads: 3 

Defenders beaten: 16 

Tackles: 23 

“There’s a lot 

of pride and 

passion; I 

can just feel 

it in their voice 

and the way 

they speak about 

the Heineken Champions 

Cup, and the feelings 

they get when they speak 

about what Munster 

have achieved in the 

past, and they just 

want to get that 

right and achieve 

what those other 

guys have. I 

think that’s 

something 

that not 

just the old 

guys want 

to achieve 

it – it’s the 

youngsters 

that also want 

to achieve 

it with 

Munster.” 


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FIXTURES & RESULTS 2020/21 

Date Fixture Where to watch 

Sat 3 Oct Scarlets 27-30 Munster Parc y Scarlets 

Sat 10 Oct Munster 25-23 Edinburgh Rugby Thomond Park 

Mon 26 Oct Munster 38 - 27 Cardiff Blues eir Sport, TG4, Premier Sports 

Sun 1 Nov Dragons 16 - 28 Munster eir Sport, Premier Sports 

Sat 7 Nov Benetton Rugby v Munster Match Postponed 

Sun 15 Nov Munster 38-22 Ospreys eir Sport, S4C, Premier Sports 

Mon 23 Nov Glasgow Warriors 13-27 Munster Premier Sports, eir Sport 

Mon 30 Nov Munster 52-3 Zebre Rugby Club eir Sport, Premier Sports 

Sun 13 Dec | 5.30pm Munster v Harlequins BT Sport, beIN Sports 

Sat 19 Dec | 6.30pm Clermont Auvergne v Munster beIN Sports, BT Sport 

Sat 26 Dec | 7.35pm Munster v Leinster eir Sport, Premier Sports 

Sat 02 Jan | 5.15pm Ulster v Munster eir Sport, Premier Sports 

Sat 09 Jan | 7.35pm Connacht v Munster eir Sport, TG4, Premier Sports 

Sat 16 Jan | 5.30pm Munster v Clermont Auvergne BT Sport, beIN Sports 

Sat 23 Jan | 5.30pm Harlequins v Munster BT Sport, beIN Sports 

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