LAST UPDATE | 26 Nov 2024
MUNSTER’S ATTACK COACH Mike Prendergast has signed a two-year contract extension.
The news comes hours after the province announced that Denis Leamy, their defence coach, signed a two-year extension.
Now in his third season at Munster, Prendergast returned to the province in 2022 after a successful 10-year spell in France coaching at clubs such as Racing 92, Stade Francais, Oyonnax and Grenoble.
A former Munster, Bourgoin and Gloucester scrum-half, Prendergast held head coach and director of rugby roles with Young Munster RFC on completion of his playing career.
Leamy has also signed a two-year extension with the southern province which will keep him in Limerick until the summer of 2027.
Leamy was due to be out of contract at the end of the current campaign, which is his third with Munster since joining from Leinster as part of Graham Rowntree’s coaching ticket in 2022.
Leamy’s extension is an indication that either Munster believe their new head coach is already in the building or that an external candidate will be comfortable working within something resembling the province’s existing coaching structure.
During Leamy’s first two seasons back at Thomond Park, Munster’s defence became the meanest in the URC and was one of the key pillars upon which they achieved their drought-ending URC triumph in 2023.
Last season, Munster conceded a league-lowest 18 points per game on average, topping the URC regular-season table before running out of steam at the semi-final stage.
This season has made for a different story so far, with the porous Munster currently sitting 12th in the table with the fourth-worst points difference in the league.
Head coach Rowntree and forwards coach Andi Kyriacou have departed the province since they last took to the field in competitive action, with the full-time head coaching position — currently filled by interim boss Ian Costello — still vacant. Ireland women’s forwards coach Alex Codling, meanwhile, will deputise for Kyriacou on a short-term consultancy basis.
Munster host the fourth-placed Lions at Thomond Park this Saturday (7:35pm) having provided decidedly mixed news on the injury front earlier this morning.
Wow the FA actually showing a bit of backbone and rescinding a red card! If there’s any justice Costa will get a ban and Mike Dean get a warning for a shocking performance, playing up to the big game as usual
Costa did get a ban.
My comment was before the ban was announced. Delighted for the tramp
Give Costa the 3 match ban instead! Filthy animal
Costa got a 3 match ban
Just saw that now. Justice!!
costa nearly as bad as philly mc mahon
Nearly….. But , nice boys get nice girls nice boys don’t win all Ireland’s
any chance you could show a clip of the incident? never saw it
Youtube.
I never commented that
I got fraped lads
https://youtu.be/o68jQjPCDtU
Should they not remove the charge for failing to leave the pitch seeing as they justified that hos argument at the time was correct?
Feck all this lads! Eva Carneiro just left Chelsea and is looking for a new job
I’d give her a job.
Or would it be roles reversed if ya get my meaning….
in fairness though he did commit two yellow card offenses. Costa was a disgrace but Gabriel chose to get involved in the first place
It’s all a bit late Chelsea get the win and Wenger blames everyone else for Arsenal choking in another big game.
Mourinho’s next press conference should be interesting.
Why did they charge him them ?
premier league now full of pussies. thought central defenders were meant to e big hard men, not going crying to the media or the fa coz a striker bullied them
The very striker you’re referring to went crying and whinging to the referee at every opportunity
that’s why I’m saying they’re all pussies
also to be fair, I haven’t heard Koscielny or Gabriel say anything to the media. The referee is the one that referred it to the FA.
Mourinho’s gonna need a doctor. Oh…
Fareplay
I can see the potential for a lengthy ban for Costa here. they could total up every incident as a separate red card offense
Even though he’s a p rick I wouldn’t agree with that. They’d have to do it to everyone else if that was the case.
Oh I definitely don’t think it would be fair bit there was a lot that the ref didn’t see and that’s their specific role
Do you even think about half the bulls hit that comes out your mouth??
to be clear I was referring to the Koscielny incident, the Gabriel incident and the Chambers incident. All of which were not seen properly by the ref. That’s the exact requirement for the FA to look into it. I didn’t say I wanted it to be done that way or that it would be fair. Can’t quite see how that got you so riled up.
“Brazilian striker” haha nice dig.
to be fair, he’s not Spanish
Mourinho tomorrow…….conspiracy against Chelsea, they are all out to get him………blah blah