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Ireland international Joey Carbery made his Munster debut off the bench as the province kicked off their Guinness PRO14 campaign with an impressive 38-0 bonus-point victory over Toyota Cheetahs at Thomond Park.<\/p>\nIreland international Joey Carbery made his Munster debut off the bench as the province kicked off their Guinness PRO14 campaign with an impressive 38-0 bonus-point victory over Toyota Cheetahs at Thomond Park.<\/p>\n
Following his much-talked-about summer move from Leinster, Carbery saw 27 minutes of second-half action during which Tommy O’Donnell, JJ Hanrahan, Dave O’Callaghan and man-of-the-match Darren Sweetnam all touched down in front of a 12,265 crowd.<\/p>\n
Earlier tries from Rory Scannell (15 minutes) and Dave Kilcoyne (30) had the men in red 12-0 ahead at the break as the new-look Cheetahs, now coached by Franco Smith, failed to convert their early pressure into points and suffered a big blow with captain Oupa Mohoje’s injury-enforced withdrawal.<\/p>\n
The South African side, who had 10 PRO14 debutants in their match day squad, enjoyed a bright start in the Limerick sunshine as they looked to stretch Munster out wide.<\/p>\n
However, former Bordeaux-Begles fly-half Tian Schoeman drifted an early penalty wide and they then lost Springbok flanker Mohoje to a worrying knee injury.<\/p>\n
The game burst into life on the quarter hour mark when in-form winger Sweetnam carved open the defense on a kick return and delivered a peach of a pass for center Scannell to finish off in the right corner.<\/p>\n
It was a settling score for the hosts with scrum-half Neil Cronin, a younger brother of Leinster and Ireland star Sean, looking sharp on his first PRO14 start.<\/p>\n
South African number eight Arno Botha was also making his mark for Johann van Graan’s men with a powerful series of carries.<\/p>\n
With tight passing and an increasing control of possession, the hosts came away with their second try when prop Kilcoyne sniped over from close range, with Hanrahan converting.<\/p>\n
The gap remained at 12 points as Munster half-backs Hanrahan and Cronin continued to wield more influence on the resumption, although Academy back Shane Daly had to produce a tremendous try-saving tackle on Malcolm Jaer to keep the Cheetahs scoreless. Schoeman also missed his second penalty attempt soon after.<\/p>\n
Munster’s third try arrived when the pressure was built off aggressive defense and breakdown and scrum work for openside O’Donnell to evade a tackle and score to the left of the posts. The otherwise dynamic Hanrahan, who finished with 13 points, narrowly missed the conversion.<\/p>\n
After captain Billy Holland was denied by a TMO decision, Hanrahan claimed the bonus point score with Carbery, who took over at number 10, prominent in the build-up.<\/p>\n
The running of Carbery and Sweetnam heaped further pressure on the Cheetahs defense, paving the way for flanker O’Callaghan to get over in the 70th minute and Sweetnam pounced on a loose ball to run in the sixth try from 50 meters out.<\/p>\n