Former Munster man made his presence felt within minutes of the game before scoring Leinster’s fourth try
on Saturday evening. Under those circumstances they might have been fleetingly tolerant or magnanimous about his decision to leave Limerick for Dublin and join their bitterest provincial rivals during the summer.. Nowhere in the small print, or otherwise, was it permissible for Snyman to bite the hand that used to feed. He did, though, take a chunk out of it, and a pretty big one at that in real terms during his 49 minutes on the pitch.
Not that he was complaining. “I felt it in the warm-up, but it is always in good spirit.” It was their prerogative too. When a player switches between rivals, the person’s likeability is superseded by a shirt colour over the 80 minutes, and for those who can’t let go, beyond. In the motion of freeing his hands to offload through the tackle of Jeremy Loughman, Snyman’s forearm contacted his opponent’s face, an accidental rugby incident, so to speak. The ball dropped to the ground but was not ruled a knock-on by the officials, a decision exacerbated from a Munster perspective by the fact that in an extension of this sequence of play, Leinster scored a try.
On 49 minutes, he was replaced by Ryan Baird, to a mixed soundtrack. He observed, diplomatically: “The atmosphere, I can’t really put it into words. Coming off the field, it was special to see everyone’s reaction.”
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