🏉 Lions v Leinster wrap
🏉 Around the provinces
🏉 Wonder Wallabies
🏉 Pollock. Discuss.
🏉 #StopTheGame
Our guests :
542 : Lions, Wallabies, Corn rows
Category: Jason Long
519 : Benetton v Leinster wrap
🏉 Chopping & changing
🏉 Benetton buono
🏉 Accuracy deficit
🏉 Super Dan
🏉 Life after Luke
THIS WEEK’S GUEST
FULL TIME TAKES
As I explained on the pod, there was no Facebook post this week so here are some reactions from the full time whistle in the Harpin WhatsApp group, including my own from Sunday morning when I watched the match myself for the first time…
David Cordial
So many moments where we did all the hard work and were inches away and it was only fitting the last pass that cost us
Ciarán Duffy
Honestly not good enough from Leinster. It’s been a season of not waking up. Sleepwalking.
We’ve had enough kicks up the arse at this stage to switch on, have to learn from this ahead of next week.
Conor Cronin
Heads in next week without earning the right to play there
Richard Mifsud
The reality is we’ve been poor and disjointed all season and this coaching ticket requires a massive shake up because the voices in that dressing room are clearly stale and stagnant Which means we’ll probably go on and win the double 🤣
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NEXT HARPIN’
TUESDAY
BONUS CHAT : “THE TOULON CHALLENGE”
WEDNESDAY
80+ COLUMN
467 : Ireland v New Zealand preview
Our guest : JAY LONG
IRELAND : 15. Jamie Osborne 14. Tommy O’Brien 13. Garry Ringrose 12. Stuart McCloskey 11. James Lowe 10. Jack Crowley 9. Jamison Gibson-Park
1. Andrew Porter 2. Dan Sheehan (c) 3. Tadhg Furlong 4. James Ryan 5. Tadhg Beirne 6. Ryan Baird 7. Josh van der Flier 8. Jack Conan
16. Ronan Kelleher 17. Paddy McCarthy 18. Finlay Bealham 19. Iain Henderson
20. Caelan Doris 21. Craig Casey 22. Sam Prendergast 23. Bundee Aki
NEW ZEALAND : 15. Will Jordan 14. Leroy Carter 13. Quinn Tupaea 12. Jordie Barrett 11. Caleb Clarke 10. Beauden Barrett 9. Cam Roigard
1. Ethan de Groot 2. Codie Taylor 3. Fletcher Newell 4. Scott Barrett (c) 5. Fabian Holland 6. Simon Parker 7. Ardie Savea 8. Peter Lakai
16. Samisoni Taukei’aho 17. Tamaiti Williams 18. Pasilio Tosi 19. Josh Lord 20. Wallace Sititi 21. Cortez Ratima 22. Leicester Fainga’anuku 23. Damian McKenzie
Gallagher Cup Test Match
Saturday, November 1, 2025
Soldier Field
KO 8:10pm Irish time
Live on : Virgin Media One, TNT Sports 2
Referee: Pierre Brousset (FFR)
Assistant Referee 1: Karl Dickson (RFU)
Assistant Referee 2: Luc Ramos (FFR)
TMO: Ian Tempest (RFU)
FRPO: Dan Jones (RFU)
419 : Italy v Ireland wrap
🏉 Italian backs
🏉 Missed chances
🏉 Dan x 3
🏉 No try x 3
🏉 Polishing a 3rd
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
FULL TIME TAKES
Kevin Kelehan
Italy were solid and pumped, only for the cards they may well have won this game, Ireland were good in spells but a lot of unforced errors, something you did not see in the 2022/23 season
Eamon Saunders
Sorry to say but the second best team won today and sad to say the the ref and TMO were bad 5 mins looking at a knock on and 5 seconds looking a a perfect try
John Hyland
(reply to Eamon Saunders) I totally disagree. Ireland played poorly but they were not the second best team
Cormac Mannion
We looked badly coached today. Zero inventiveness and unsure in defence. Far too many unforced errors
Angela Cassin Jackson
Tough game but a win is a win. 4 out of 5 wins and a triple crown a lot to be proud of. Well done Ireland as usual they represented their country wonderfully 💚☘️💚☘️💚☘️💚
Gavin Hegarty
We were shit at the things you can’t coach. Bad knock ons and handling errors. Really not like us.
We looked unfit and unmotivated.
Crowley left too many points out there
,this is meant to be his strength. 2/5 just isn’t good enough.
Sean MacDonnchadha
Thank god this hobble towards the end of the tournament has come. Gameplan needs an overhaul, skill levels need to come up, fitness looks an issue, depth needs to be built, attack needs to be less reliant on just set piece plays and most importantly confidence needs to be rebuilt.
Monica Keeler
Lets just applaud the lads ..and our 3 Retirees Cian, Peter and Conor..we better regroup before next year…Dont see many Lions in our squad.. oh and no way Lowe was in touch 🤬
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NEXT HARPIN’
TUESDAY
BONUS CHAT : “IRISH DEPTH CHART”
WEDNESDAY
80+ COLUMN INCLUDING FRONT 5 VIDEO
THURSDAY
THROWBACK THURSDAY (on Substack)
FRIDAY
BULLS V LEINSTER PREVIEW FEATURING KEEGO
404 : Leinster v Stormers wrap
🏉 The Ross Byrne All-Stars
🏉 Skipper Dan
🏉 Missing cards
🏉 Stormer tears
🏉 Monkey off back
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
FULL TIME TAKES
Jackie McEachern
Great to get the 5 points and see Lowe and Sheehan looking strong on their returns from injury.
Eamon Saunders
Good win and great to see some young lads get their chance and as usual great to see a couple of Wexford lads on the field
Josephine Boyd
Great win for our boys in blue and and to see our young future players getting there chance.👏👍👕💪🏈💙
Bernie Cunningham
Grt win and grt to see our future looks good with young players 💙💙
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TUESDAY JAN 28
BONUS CLIP ON YOUTUBE CHANNEL : “IRISH 23 V ENGLAND”
WEDNESDAY JAN 29
80+ COLUMN INCLUDING FRONT 5 VIDEO (ALSO ON YOUTUBE)
384 : Ireland v Argentina wrap
Ireland vs Argentina Ireland’s Joe McCarthy scores a try
Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/Billy Stickland
🏉 Fast start
🏉 Foul play du jour
🏉 Dr Phil
🏉 More silly mistakes
🏉 Holding on
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
FULL TIME TAKES
Lee O Farrell
Yes, there were some sloppy mistakes at times but I think people are underestimating this Pumas team. Their defence was incredible and this is the team that has beaten France, SA and NZ (in NZ) over the past few months.
A higher score would have been great but I’ll take the win, thanks!
Cormac Mannion
Argentina are a fine side. Their physicality is right up there with South Africa at their best. We seemed to be running into brick walls for large parts of the game. However, there is still something not at all right about Ireland. Hansen still looks off the pace, as does Lowe. Crowley needs time to develop and you can see how it’s coming together for him.
Our back row seems to be playing as individuals rather than a unit. Also, far too many sloppy penalties which could point to a lack of focus. We’ve looked off the boil since midway though the 6N.
Jackie McEachern
Too many penalties again – especially when we heard all week that discipline was going to be the focus. But am very happy they hung on to win against a strong side.
Kevin Kelehan
Got over the line against a huge Argentinian pack and very useful backline, Tom Clarkson and Sam Prendergast both came through very well. Jack Crowley was superb for most and a tough nut to get up without play acting after being cynically taken out illegally. The penalty count and line out remain a serious cause for concern, Kelliher is a great scrummager and a demon in the loose but he needs to spend the next month to sort out his darts.
Jamie Bermingham
Glad we got the win but once again the discipline was very poor. Our attack in the 2nd half was practically non existent. Still a lot to work on for the next two games
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WEEK 2
IRELAND 22-19 ARGENTINA
SCOTLAND 59-21 PORTUGAL
ENGLAND 20-29 SOUTH AFRICA
FRANCE 30-29 NEW ZEALAND
ITALY 20-17 GEORGIA
WALES 20-52 AUSTRALIA
WEEK 3
FRI NOV 22
FRANCE V ARGENTINA
SAT NOV 23
IRELAND V FIJI
WALES V SOUTH AFRICA
ITALY V NEW ZEALAND
SUN NOV 24
SCOTLAND V AUSTRALIA
ENGLAND V JAPAN
371 : Leinster v Dragons wrap
🏉 D for Dragons
🏉 Jamie kicking on
🏉 Dev Jr cameo
🏉 Joe & Josh impact
🏉 The Gunne Show
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
FULL TIME TAKES
Greg Kelly
Whenever Ross Byrne wears 10 custard skins worldwide breath a sigh of relief.
Leinster looked disjointed in the first 40. Could be early season problems but to be fair I think the Dragons were better than they have been in recent years. They knew they were going to end up on the end of 30-50 before they travelled but they stuck in and really lived off their big moments in the opening half. I think they’ll beat a few teams this year and I wouldn’t fancy Newport on a wet and windy night in the winter.
Things looked a little cleaner when Joe and Josh came in.
Deegan had another good showing and really I have to wonder what he’s still doing here. He should have gone last year and quite frankly he is squandering his talent at Leinster.
Gavin Hegarty
2/6 for Byrne from the Tee simply isn’t good enough. He was nervy and it showed.
Jimmy OBrien looked electric every time he got the ball.
We now have 3 world class hookers in Sheehan, Kelliher and Gus, a great problem to have. Gus’ lineouts were excellent and he was everywhere. Lineout dropped when Barron came on, something he needs to work on if he wants any sort of a look in.
The way osbourne is going Hugo might have a huge challenge ahead of him when he comes back.
Larmour has bulked up but I think he’s sacrificed fitness as a result, he seemed tired after 30 minutes.
Can’t help but feel a bad dragons team brought us down to their level, we should have topped 60 tonight.
Dave Murray
Wasn’t even any near misses from the tee, they were all terrible kicks. Ross has given us good service over the years, but we won’t be winning many/any major trophies with himself at 10 imo. Need to be investing in Frawley/Prendergast at 10, they’ll make us play a lot better.
Dave Ryle
I thought Osborne was more deserving of POTM.
Turner had a good game as well.
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348 : Ulster v Leinster wrap
🏉 Disjointed
🏉 Somehow ahead
🏉 Much butchering
🏉 Take the three
🏉 Cool Cooney
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
FULL TIME TAKES
Paul Smith
Whoever made the call to kick to the line when we are 1 point ahead with 10 minutes to go and straight in front of the posts probably cost us the chance to top the table. A win and we were top and had it totally in our own hands but for sone reason I still can’t fathom we decided to completely f**k it up. Totally sickened right now. Not to take anything away from Ulster who completely deserved the victory tonight but its very rarely you can be so outplayed and still have the chance to come away with a win. We need to see a completely different mindset from Leinster next weekend if we are finally going to get our hands on star number 5.
William Andrew
A dreadful lack of nous to lose that game. Continually kicking the ball away with 5 mins on the clock hoping to make ten meters is not great. A 30 meter through kick to force a Ulster line out in their 22 would have burned a min at least. Plus they are now in danger of conceding a penalty.
Several generations of former Leinster 10s and 9s must be shaking their heads.
Berchmans Gannon
From the sideline the box kicking is not the way to go.
Chasing a bonus point ahead of a win is questionable.
Shit happens! I will still support Leinster without the need for a slaughter of Managment.
Kevin Kelehan
Decent game that could have gone either way, the losing bonus point will get Leinster at least a home QF, the win will guarantee Ulster top tier cup rugby next season.
Colin Mehigan
Another uninspiring performance if I’m honest….our high profile coaching ticket need to rethink strategy
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ROUND 17
ZEBRE 18-32 SCARLETS
EDINBURGH 26-29 MUNSTER
BULLS 56-35 BENETTON
OSPREYS 26-13 DRAGONS
LIONS 44-21 GLASGOW
CONNACHT 12-16 STORMERS
SHARKS 14-36 CARDIFF
ULSTER 23-21 LEINSTER
ROUND 18 [final round]
FRI MAY 31
LEINSTER V CONNACHT
GLASGOW V ZEBRE
SAT JUNE 1
STORMERS V LIONS
BENETTON V EDINBURGH
SCARLETS V DRAGONS
SHARKS V BULLS
MUNSTER V ULSTER
CARDIFF V OSPREYS
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342 : Stormers v Leinster/Ireland v Scotland wrap
🏉 Fastest wrap ever
🏉 Four provinces in top 8
🏉 Women’s heroics
🏉 Northampton’s threat
🏉 Roll on Croker
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
FULL TIME TAKES
William Andrew
We know why, but it still hurts.
Kevin Kelehan
Great to see Gus McCarthy step up, a steep learning curve for the emerging squad members, far from ideal to have back to back away games in South Africa when squad rotation is at its peak. The lads showed decent fight in the third quarter but the errors in the first half were mostly preventable.
Greg Kelly
*Copy and Paste last week’s comments*
On the bright side our young lads dominated the 3rd quarter but the inexperience and inaccuracies were evident. They’ll get better and they’ll learn from this. However if we end up trophyless again this season I’m not sure these “kids school trips” to SA will not cut the mustard.
In a wider sense I don’t like where the URC is going. Some of the fixure scheduling is…suspicious. I think the SA franchises are gaining more than they add to it and teams being forced by pragmatism, timing or necessity to give up 2 games and 10 points undermines true competition.
Richard Kennedy
A big rethink needed on sending our 2nd/3rd string down to get pummelled in by hardened pros in SA. Some of those young players simply aren’t ready for that level yet
Warren Doyle
Much as expected. Training ground stuff didn’t work in the heat of battle. Very little inivotive thinking once that failed. Experience – yes. Knowledge – ?. Could be critical but players don’t need that.
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ROUND 15
SCARLETS 27-32 SHARKS
ULSTER 38-34 BENETTON
ZEBRE 9-40 GLASGOW
BULLS 61-24 OSPREYS
CARDIFF 7-24 EDINBURGH
LIONS 13-33 MUNSTER
STORMERS 42-12 LEINSTER
DRAGONS 27-34 CONNACHT
ROUND 15
FRI MAY 10
DRAGONS V STORMERS
EDINBURGH V ZEBRE
SAT MAY 11
BULLS V GLASGOW
SCARLETS V ULSTER
SHARKS V BENETTON
MUNSTER V CONNACHT
LIONS V CARDIFF
LEINSTER V OSPREYS
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318 : Ireland v Italy wrap
🏉 50 club grows
🏉 Sluggish Azzurri
🏉 Offloads galore
🏉 Set piece dominance
🏉 The Lowe Show
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
TOM COLEMAN (50th cap) & JAY LONG
FULL TIME TAKES
Lee O Farrell
Two Six Nations games, two new records (biggest away win against France and first time holding Italy to zero points). The future’s looking pretty good right now…
Kevin Kelehan
Dan Sheehan may well end up as top try scorer. Job done 5 points and on to stiffer tests ahead.
Hubert Gallagher
Feel underwhelmed and unfulfilled after that! In some respects a great result with 6 changes and holding Italy to zero – and they were lucky to even get that – but at same time we were a bit disjointed, looked less fluent than French game and left a lot of points out there! Having said that no-one player badly but I think a lot could play better. Crowley, Henshaw, Keenan, Conan, Lowe and McCarthy were notably good.
Christy O’Connor
Glad I didn’t get tickets for this. Atmosphere was awful. I know we were expected to win, but the Irish rugby fans have to be one of the worst. I’ve seen more life in a funeral parlour.
Some great performances from Lowe, Conan and big Joe. Crowely is doing well, made some silly mistakes but it’s great that it doesn’t phase him.
Greg Kelly
Italy just parked the bus. Fairly poor spectacle for the 6 nations overall.
Ireland were a bit error strewn at times but tough to really hit your straps when the opposition don’t light a fire under you.
Eamon Saunders
A workman like performance but a win is a win ,some mistakes but a win none the less 👏👏
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ROUND 2
SCOTLAND 16-20 FRANCE
ENGLAND 16-14 WALES
IRELAND 36-0 ITALY
ROUND 3
SAT FEB 24
IRELAND V WALES
SCOTLAND V ENGLAND
SUN FEB 25
FRANCE V ITALY
UNDER 20s
ROUND 2
SCOTLAND 14-29 FRANCE
ENGLAND 28-7 WALES
IRELAND 23-22 ITALY
ROUND 3
FRI FEB 23
SCOTLAND V ENGLAND
IRELAND V WALES
FRANCE V ITALY
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