{"id":382531,"date":"2026-04-05T02:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/382531\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:20:09","slug":"tadhg-beirne-laments-same-old-story-as-munster-shoot-themselves-in-the-foot-in-exeter-loss-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/382531\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadhg Beirne laments \u2018same old story\u2019 as Munster shoot themselves in the foot in Exeter loss \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tadhg Beirne<\/a> lamented \u201cthe same old story\u201d for Munster<\/a> after an inaccurate display cost them their European campaign. The Ireland secondrow said his side were guilty of \u201cshooting themselves in the foot\u201d during the 31-21 defeat to Exeter Chiefs at Sandy Park that, in all honestly, flattered Munster in terms of the final margin. <\/p>\n

In a dire first-half display, the Irish province were actually semi-comfortable defending phase play inside their own 22, but a series of errors when on the ball gifted Exeter transition opportunities. With the likes of Immanuel Feyi-Waboso in their ranks, the hosts were always going to be threatening on the counter. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s probably the same story we\u2019ve been having throughout the year,\u201d acknowledged Beirne. \u201cIt\u2019s inaccuracy around some of our set-piece, accuracy out the back with dropped balls.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fairness to Exeter they were clinical. Intercept, drop ball, try. Drop ball out wide, try. Defensively, we felt reasonably comfortable out there when they were going through the phases. But in terms of shooting ourselves in the foot, if you watch that first half you\u2019ll see how to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

After winning the toss, Munster chose to play into a strong Sandy Park wind, hoping to have the advantage of the conditions after the break. By the time they had the gale at their backs, they were 31 points down.<\/p>\n

\"ImmanuelImmanuel Feyi-Waboso celebrates scoring Exeter Chiefs’ fourth try with team-mates Andrea Zambonin and Stephen Varney. Photograph: Michael Steele\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

\u201cWe just felt like to go into the wind in the first half, you know you\u2019re reasonably fresher. So the plan would be there to keep them to a low score and hopefully if you can go into the second half with it [the wind] up, you\u2019re in a pretty dominant position,\u201d Beirne explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if we had to managed that a bit better … we probably overplayed and we didn\u2019t go to some of the things that we could have gone to to tighten it up, in terms of the forwards and stuff like that, just to make it more difficult for them to get the ball back.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just coughed up the ball to them and they were clinical in fairness to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then second half, we talked about the first five minutes. I thought we were very good in the first five minutes, but then it was the same story, wasn\u2019t it? We\u2019d ample opportunities inside their 22, but dropped balls, just the same kind of mistakes that we\u2019ve probably been coughing up throughout the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo that\u2019s probably the frustrating part because we still put ourselves in a position to claw back at the score at the scoreboard, but it was a big mountain to climb. Had it been a bit less on the scoreboard, it could have been a different conversation today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tadhg Beirne lamented \u201cthe same old story\u201d for Munster after an inaccurate display cost them their European campaign.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[32729,61,60,11897,112,58217],"class_list":{"0":"post-382531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-challenge-cup","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-munster-rugby","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tadhg-beirne"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}