Category: Mark Jackson

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Pod 172 : Ulster v Leinster wrap

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FRONT FIVE ARTICLES

Ireland and Connacht centre Bundee Aki suspended for eight games (talkingrugbyunion.co.uk) [Frank Nickson]

Worcester facing exodus of players and staff after failing to pay salaries | The Independent [PA News Agency]

Crowley impresses at 10 as Emerging Ireland hammer the Griquas · The42 [Morgan Piek]

Connacht remain pointless in United Rugby Championship following defeat in South Africa – Independent.ie [John Fallon]

MKRowntree’s delight tempered by Munster’s failure to reach bonus territory (irishexaminer.com) [Simon Lewis]

FULL TIME TAKES

Conor Cronin

Is it terrible of me to be disappointed at being out scored in the second half?

Away from home that’s a good win, particularly against a decent Ulster side. Strong first half, dirty conditions spoiled it a bit, but happy out at that result.

Gav Heg

(reply to Conor Cronin) indeed but that’s the standards we set. A win up north at this stage is good. They’ve a good squad. But I am a little disappointed how they came back and got a point.

Richard Collumb

Good win tonight in tough conditions. Jenkins was very good again & looks like a great acquisition (about time we got someone coming up from Limerick). Seemed to switch off in second half a bit but Ngatai covering tackle was significant in the overall score.

Chris McDonnell

McGrath was very poor with the ball. (he can defend in fairness) brace was ulsters best player and james ryan on that form is behind moloney, jenkins, baird and joe mccarthy. He needs to get his act together.

Andrew Potts

Did well to get out of Belfast with that one. A little loss of focus, the ref went a little off and a big slice of luck with the non try.

Choke tackle from Sexton to secure the points.

Some shift from both sets of players.

Martin Loughrey

A good win away to a tough opponent on a dirty night. Score gap possibly would have been bigger had Leinster not switched off in the 2nd half. That said, Ulster were well up for it though, and the conditions made it a bit of a lottery. Their maul has become quite the weapon. Ngatai’s tackle on Aaron Sexton was pure gold and probably saved us the match. All in all, happy to have that match done and dusted with 4 points in the bag.

Neil ‘Keego’ Keegan

Even in the storm

When you come at the kings, best not miss!

Sean Michaels

Literally a game of two halves with Leinster owning the first and Ulster the second, albeit with the assistance of some questionable decisions by the referee. From a Leinster perspective they will be disappointed in several aspects of their game particularly with how they dealt with the Ulster maul. Jenkins seems the real deal and a extremely good acquisition. All in all a very good win in atrocious conditions

URC ROUND 3 WRAP

Round 3

FRI SEP 30

BUL 28-14 CON

ULS 13-20 LEI

CAR 18-31 LIO

SAT OCT 1

STO 34-18 EDI

OSP 32-17 GLA

MUN 21-5 ZEB

BEN 34-23 SCA

DRA 19-20 SHA

Round 4

FRI OCT 7

EDI V LIO

CON V MUN

SAT OCT 8

ZEB V STO

LEI V SHA

SCA V CAR

ULS V OSP

GLA V BUL

SUN OCT 9

BEN V DRA

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171 : #ULSvLEI preview

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LEINSTER : 15. Jimmy O’Brien 14. Jordan Larmour 13. Garry Ringrose > CAPTAIN 12. Robbie Henshaw 11. Dave Kearney 10. Ross Byrne 9. Luke McGrath

1. Andrew Porter 2. Dan Sheehan 3. Michael Ala’alatoa 4. Ross Molony 5. Jason Jenkins 6. Ryan Baird 7. Josh van der Flier 8. Jack Conan

16. Rónan Kelleher 17. Ed Byrne 18. Vakhtang Abdaladze 19. James Ryan 20. Will Connors 21. Nick McCarthy 22. Johnny Sexton 23. Charlie Ngatai.

Ulster : 15 Michael Lowry 14  Aaron Sexton 13 Luke Marshall 12 Stuart McCloskey 11 Jacob Stockdale 10 Billy Burns 9 John Cooney

1 Andy Warwick 2 Rob Herring 3 Tom O’Toole 4 Alan O’Connor > Captain 5 Kieran Treadwell 6 Matty Rea 7 Marcus Rea 8 Nick Timoney.

16 John Andrew 17 Eric O’Sullivan 18 Marty Moore 19 Sam Carter 20 Greg Jones 21 David Shanahan 22 Angus Curtis 23 Ben Moxham.

BKT United Rugby Championship 2022/23 – Round 3

Friday, September 30, 2022

KO 7:35pm (Irish time)

Kingspan Stadium

Referee: Andrew Brace (IRFU)

AR 1: Eoghan Cross (IRFU) 

AR 2: Andrew Cole (IRFU)

TMO: Brian MacNeice (IRFU)

TV: BBC2 NI, RTÉ2, Premier Sports 1, SuperSport, Discovery+, URC.tv

Pod 163 : Leinster season preview

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EXTRA THOUGHTS

Love this time of year, new season about to begin, full of opportunities to improve on what has gone before.

I had been disappointed for a while that there was no home preseason senior fixture for Leinster this year, and the weekend just gone would have been the perfect window for it, but as it turned out the Irish 7s both women and men did us proud down in South Africa at the Rugby World Cup.

Obviously it was a bit different from normal rugby weekends; normally your team just plays the one match so you an plan other life things around it, but this time it was all about setting reminders on your phone for mad kickoff times like 11:33am, but boy, was it worth it.

And I know the men got the bronze medal and all which was an incredible achievement in its own right, but let’s not forget the women who also finished their campaign with a victory, clinching 7th place with a 26-10 win over England. Both sides very much did us proud and have the ability to push even further down the road.

I’ll keep saying it – we need the World Rugby Sevens circuit to come to Ireland. Doesn’t have to be Dublin, I don’t care if it’s at Malin Head or Mizen, just find a slot on the calendar and give us an awesome day out to finally get to see these legends in the flesh. I’m trying to get a hashtag going on the twitter machine maybe you can help me give it a push…

Followers of our previous “.net” site may remember a daily feature called The Front Five where we shared quotes and links from around the ruggersphere. Now we have reimagined it into a segment on our main show each week which gives us a chance to step out of the Leinster & Ireland bubble on a regular basis.

And if you keep an eye on all of our social media channels you’ll see more of our old features still going, like Rugby on TV and also Eurowatch where we keep tabs on Leinster’s upcoming opposition in the Heineken Cup. As well as our established accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram be sure to follow us on both TikTok and YouTube as well, the plan is to post regular videos there throughout the season.

But the focus of our main show this week is of course Leinster’s squad depth and I have to say both Mark and Tom came brilliantly prepared to go over all of our options so be sure to have a listen.

Also a shout out to the poster on the Babbling Brook Leinster message board who goes by the moniker “mildly interested” as it was their detailed listing of the squad which we used for the show.

Next week it’s all for real folks! Keep an eye out for our Zebre v Leinster preview on Friday, and before that we’ll be have bonus episode for you with a brief look at Connacht’s squad. JLP

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FRONT FIVE LINKS

URC plans to bring rugby to Qatar after signing new partnership · The42 – Murray Kinsella

Virimi Vakatawa: French centre not allowed to play in France because of heart condition – BBC Sport

Irish-qualified Oli Jager signs new deal with Crusaders in New Zealand – Pundit Arena  – Eoin Harte

Ireland well beaten by New Zealand in WC 1/4 final (rte.ie)

New Zealand prove too strong for Ireland in Rugby 7s World Cup semi-final – Independent.ie

Pod 160 : Harlequins v Leinster wrapup

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EXTRA THOUGHTS

From 2008-last season the bulk of my Harpin’ On Leinster & Ireland rugby was done in the form of a “match writeup” which would post every Monday afternoon, while I added a weekly podcast in 2019 to cover broader topics around the sport.

This season just to mix things up I have chosen to do less articles and more pods and the weekend just gone gave me the first chance to try out a new type of “wrapup” pods where instead of reviewing the most recent match in my own words, I’ll instead chat to some fellow fans about it. And I think we gave it a decent go in our first attempt if I do say so myself, which I do. Obvs there are things that need to be ironed out and I plan to upgrade my equipment as the season goes along but I’m happy enough with the new format so far.

But that certainly won’t stop me writing and I’ve decided to create this ‘extra thoughts’ heading for these posts where I can add things I may have forgotten to add or perhaps clarify somethind a listener brougtup in some feedback, stuff like that.

For the win at Quins there were a couple of impressive performances I forgot to mention, like Alex Soroka who seems to have picked up where he left off after his PotM display in South Africa earlier in the year, and of the 19 year olds who had prolonged cameos, Ben Brownlee had an error or two but certainly nothing to suggest he wont improve and as for Sam Prendergast he did really well under the circumstances, particularly that territory kick that put us in a position to claim the match winning try.

On the Harlequins side I forgot to give an honourable mention to their centre Lennox Anyanwu who had some really strong carries, with himself and Dombrandt representing the home side’s most potent threats.

Also on the pod we spoke about “full time takes” and I realise I forgot to add my own so here’s what I tweeted…

Sadly there is no Leinster match next weekend so as well as using the time to go around the provinces to see how their squads are shaping up, I plan to follow both the Irish Women’s and Men’s 7s squads as they take part in the World Cup, with the men taking part in the very first match of the weekend on Friday morning, so stay tuned for that.

Don’t forget to follow us wherever you can, we’re well established on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram but also this season we’re aiming to increase our presence on both YouTube and TikTok so as the saying goes “smash that subscribe button”!!! JLP

FRONT FIVE ARTICLES

1) Another poor start sees Munster end pre-season winless (irishexaminer.com) by Stephen Barry

2) Jacob Stockdale’s try-scoring return caps Ulster’s night as victory over Exeter ramps up preparations for new season – BelfastTelegraph.co.uk by Jonathan Bradley

3) Leinster Rugby | Conor O’Brien to Retire from Rugby by Marcus Ó Buachalla

4) All Blacks bounce back strongly to punish Argentina 53-3 in Hamilton | Stuff.co.nz by Aaron Goile on Stuff

5) New faces revive old Boks (sarugbymag.co.za) by Zelim Nel on Sa Rugby Mag

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