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26th November 2019
01:07pm GMT

"He's been brilliant for us. Obviously, he had a long layoff with his knee and he's really important for us. He gives us go-forward, he's a very good defender, a very good fielder of the ball in the air, just a really well-rounded footballer. He has a spark about him, he can do special things, and he has a great work-rate as well. So it's great playing alongside him."On the latest episode of Baz & Andrew's House of Rugby, Barry Murphy, Andrew Trimble and Jerry Flannery praised Farrell's impact and took a closer look at what Munster need to do to put themselves in the box-seat for the Champions Cup knock-out stages.
"Mike Haley had potentially his best game for Munster," Murphy observes, "putting in a man-of-the-match performance and some very attack-minded play throughout."
Flannery feels Munster should get better when they full integrate their Ireland internationals and get them up to speed, after a short, post-World Cup rest period. The back-to-back games with Saracens in December may both need to be won, especially with an away trip to Racing in round five of the pool stages.
"Munster have a couple of levels, still, to go up," Flannery adds. "I thought JJ Hanrahan stepped up well in attack and with nailing that conversion kick. He didn't nail the drop goal [to get the win] but that would have been an absolute smash-and-grab... "It just tees up these next two games with Sarries as they are going to be season defining... from what I believe, Sarries are not going to put any emphasis on Europe so that could be the deciding factor for Munster... If Saracens go full whack against Munster, it's going to be very, very hard."There was talk, after last weekend's game with Racing, that Munster could look at getting South Africans RG Snyman and Damian De Allende over to Limerick earlier than next summer. De Allende was class in the World Cup but, given the recent form of Rory Scannell and Chris Farrell, even if he rocked up to U.L in the coming weeks, he may have to wait his turn for a crack at the Munster midfield.
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