🏉 Preparedness
🏉 Pts left behind
🏉 Penalties galore
🏉 Separation anxiety
🏉 Scrum’s the word
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421 : Bulls v Leinster wrap
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415 : Leinster v Cardiff wrap
🏉 Tactical changes
🏉 Clinical Cardiff
🏉 Yellow turning point
🏉 Charlie Tekkers
🏉 Tommy The Trysaver
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
FULL TIME TAKES
Michael Branagan
Ultimately a great result. Bit sticky for a while there. Excellent 2nd half and score just before halftime critical. Scrum excellent. Cardiff a dynamic team not the taken lightly.
Kevin Kelehan
That Tommy O’Brien hit just before he was subbed was worth 7 points having saved a certain try with an easy run up to the posts, Cardiff were decent out wide and made a match of it. Great to see younger players like Jack Boyle and Charlie Tector growing into battle hardened options for tougher contests.
Martin Lynch
Was at the match. Sloppy 1st Half . Lots of possession poor execution. 2nd half was totally different. Sharper Faster Better . Well Done and lots of Debutants.
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Chris McDonnell
Some really good stuff. Excellent to see so many of the young players do so well.
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408 : Scotland v Ireland wrap
🏉 Super Sam
🏉 DVDM good & bad
🏉 HIAs
🏉 Mini comeback
🏉 Quaich retained
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
FULL TIME TAKES
Sarah Lennon
Decent performance but we need to get out of the habit of coughing up late scores, this could come down to points difference
Colin McConaghie
Thought JGP was outstanding again and Hugo looks back to his best. Worried about our centres who aren’t hitting the heights.
Not sure about persisting with POM with other longer term options available. Conan stepped it up when he came on.
Cormac Mannion
No head-slapping, whooping and screaming in the opposition’s faces from the Scotland players today. Good enough for them.
Overall, a solid performance. We were very sloppy at times though, particularly from 35mins to 50mins and then the last Scotland score.but we were well on top for most of it. Lineout wasn’t great but we tried a few new things and hopefully Furlong and McCarthy will be back for Wales.
David Ryle
I feel Sam has shut his detractors up but they won’t.
Kevin Kelehan
Scotland played very well for phases but the loss of Russell and Graham means we never saw the full test that was expected. Ireland were really professional in using their power and patience to get their scores. Conan is definitely back to his absolute best as Prendergast raises the bar at 10 higher game after game.
Jackie McEachern
Really happy overall with the performance and bonus point win. I thought Prendergast, Beirne, JGP and Keenan were all excellent. Always things to work on but two 5 point wins from the first two 6N matches is excellent.
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400 : La Rochelle v Leinster wrap
🏉 80-minute D
🏉 The Porter Protocol
🏉 Jamie spin, Joe score
🏉 Missed kicks
🏉 Frantic finish
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
FULL TIME TAKES
John Hyland
Botia was a nuisance when he came on. Leinster were very physical and really ripped into them in the first half but lost a bit of intensity after the substitutions. Both sides need to improve their place kicking.
Gavin Hegarty
Ok let’s not call a spade a shovel here. We won but it was far from satisfactory. So many schoolboy errors that a better side would have hugely punished us on. Our lineout is an utter sham, I don’t get how a pro team can have one so bad. I think some of the subs, like Byrne and McGrath, happened to early, prendergast was doing very well.
On a side note that TMO should be fired for raising the Doris tackle with the ref and for wasting everyone’s time reviewing it. I think he was aiming for the world’s first back to head penalty.
Jackie McEachern
Happy for the win away. Amazing defence and still lots to work on in attack. We can’t miss kicks like the one Byrne missed in games at this level. The kick Barrett missed was much more difficult and maybe we should have gone to the corner then?
For me MOTM was between JVDF and Doris.
Greg Kelly
We turned the tables on them. We had them running into brick walls and numerous times their sustained phase attack was driven 20-30m backwards. They did that to us in our 1st few encounters.
Ross Byrnes missed kick again I think will be another paving stone on his road out of the club. In a game like that you can’t miss those kicks
Kevin Kelehan
O’Gara had La Rochelle pumped, the crowd was extremely partisan. Leinster made mistakes but had the winning mentality, did not make it easy for themselves but did the hard work without the ball.
John Jones
Amazing defensive performance and we looked in control for the middle part of the game. Thought we really lost our shape once all the subs were on though and there were far too many players out of position- need a more balanced bench selection I think. Also, Ross is a great servant but Frawley has to be the back up 10 in these games i think. I just don’t trust Byrne in clutch games and that penalty miss was pretty unforgivable I think. Also wasn’t it very similar to the penalty that Frawley came off the bench and nailed in the same fixture last year?
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CHAMPIONS CUP WRAP
396 : Leinster v Connacht wrap
🏉 Makeshift?
🏉 Ref communication
🏉 Well taken tries
🏉 Holding on
🏉 Mackgate
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
FULL TIME TAKES
Lorcán Murphy
Changes and early injuries proved very disruptive. Came out the right side of a dogfight two weeks running. Better than cakewalks and nothing to show at the end of the season
Eamon Saunders
Not a great game but as I always say a win is a win. Great to see 2 Wexford men on the field Charlie Tector and Brian Deeny
Andrew Bailey
On paper a very strong Connacht team nullified. Just find a Lineout and we could be comfortable
David Ryle
Some dodgy decisions on both sides.
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389 : Ulster v Leinster wrap
🏉 Scrum’s the word
🏉 HIAs & injuries
🏉 Tactical changes
🏉 Jimmy & Jordan
🏉 Unexpected bonus
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
FULL TIME TAKES
Jackie McEachern
After last year, I’m so happy to get 5 points in Belfast. But it’s frustrating that Byrne’s conversion misses wind up meaning Ulster get the LBP. JOB was great.
Gordy Graham (Ulster fan)
Amazing that Ulster got anything from that game considering the state of our scrum. Both sides had an error strewn first half, both a bit better the second but Leinster, as they often are, were clinical enough to get the win.
Sean MacDonnchadha
Slimani brought in for nights like these. A rock of solidity with the first line front rowers away. Built our win around scrum power 💪🏼 Also great to see Larmour perform so well. A leaders performance by Jack with a great steal at the end to seal the win.
Kevin Kelehan
5 points for Leinster, decent progress report for Ulster who could have been a lot further in front at half time if they converted better
Colin Mcconaghie (Ulster fan)
Hate to criticise officials but that was so poor. Reffed both teams differently
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382 : Ireland v New Zealand wrap
🏉 Decent defence
🏉 Errors & Penalties
🏉 There for the taking
🏉 No bench impact
🏉 Adapt or else
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
FULL TIME TAKES
John Hyland
Undercooked. A few performances to forget but they have credit in the bank. A lot of fair weather fans throwing out demands and ultimatums. This was our first loss in 19 games at the Aviva, and it was to an All Blacks team with a lot more recent game time than us.
Sean MacDonnchadha
Worrying lack of aggression first and then lack of leadership. They’ve gone on and on about unfinished business from the World Cup and getting revenge. Didn’t see that tonight.
Kevin Kelehan
The best team Ireland has ever produced were more error prone than I’ve seen them in many years. 3 more games to keep the direction of travel in the right direction
James Murphy
Our front men standing back??
Letting them bully use in lineouts and scrums,
Crowley very poor, frawley not much better
But frawley deserves start next week
Poorest Irish performance in a long time
Brian Corr
Too many errors and then too many players losing it or dropping the heads.
Decision making was terrible and lineout was very poor.
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AUTUMN NATIONS SERIES WRAP
WEEK 1
IRELAND 13-23 NEW ZEALAND
ENGLAND 37-42 AUSTRALIA
ITALY 18-50 ARGENTINA
FRANCE 52-12 JAPAN
WA;ES 19-24 FIJI
SCOTLAND 15-32 SOUTH AFRICA
WEEK 2
FRI NOV 15
IRELAND V ARGENTINA
SAT NOV 16
SCOTLAND V PORTUGAL
ENGLAND V SOUTH AFRICA
FRANCE V NEW ZEALAND
SUN NOV 17
ITALY V GEORGIA
WALES V AUSTRALIA
379 : Leinster v Lions wrap
🏉 9/10 combinations
🏉 Proud Lions
🏉 Forcing knockons
🏉 Caelan & Josh
🏉 Late gloss
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
FULL TIME TAKES
Cormac Mannion
Sad to see McGrath’s decline. He seemed quite hesitant last night and the time when the ball popped out of the ruck and went between his legs was a prime try scoring opportunity.
Our scrum is now a serious area for concern. “If in doubt, ping Porter”
Jackie McEachern
Tough match although I think we likely would have scored more/gone a bit easier if JGP had been playing. I thought Sam did well and Doris and JVF were excellent! Glad to see Robbie back.
Jamie Bermingham
A tough game and exactly what we needed, the young lads impressed and Doris was an absolute wrecking ball. Lions definitely came for a battle and the scoreboard does not reflect how well they played
Chris McDonnell
Jvdf is just a magnificent 7. I can’t understand why mcgrath was kept and 3 better 9s are playing for other clubs
Tom Clarke
Breakdown needs some attention. Robbie looked sharp and Cooney looks a good prospect. Dorris is a top top player, but we know that!!
Alan Jacob
#1Vs #2 ….. good outing for the boys…. Dori’s ridiculous as always!! Prendergast had a solid game especially considering Lions had the ruck under serious pressure…. Needed a proper pressure game & an 80 min performance which were both delivered in spades.
Kevin Kelehan
Way too much aimless kicking in the first half which gave the Lions great opportunities to run at a Leinster in the 13-14 channel, once that was tightened up Leinster improved. Crowd got going at times but needed to give better support
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373 : Benetton v Leinster wrap
🏉 The Perfect 10
🏉 Injury worries
🏉 On the blitz
🏉 Split decision
🏉 He’s alright, Jack
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
FULL TIME TAKES
Michaela Monaghan
Very one sided but another BP win in the bag 😃😃… Frawley needs to stay at 10 instead of Ross Byrne
Richard Collumb
Scrum poor & got very scrappy, very quickly, still it’s PB win & a few players coming back but need to be sharper next week.
Hubert Gallagher
Frawley Frawley Frawley – there should be no other 10!!!
Eamon Saunders
Good to see some of the big boys back but really good to see some fringe players get game time (BRIAN DEENY ) Up Wexford
Denise O’Brien
I think the 10 situation became even more clear…
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369 : Edinburgh v Leinster wrap
🏉 Mixed bag
🏉 Pro-Tector
🏉 Whiskey, neat
🏉 Bouncebackability
🏉 Two Healys
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
FULL TIME TAKES
Kevin Kelehan
JGP’s try was the catalyst that delivered that burst of scores that changed the game, lucky the Edinburgh butchered their kicks 5 minutes out but on balance a decent start to the season that needs to deliver silverware
Chris McDonnell
We handed over 5 tries to the second worst attack in the league. If we don’t send him back to SA it’d going to get worse. Good to see some of the attack and Sam and Charlie were very good.
Gavin Hegarty
First game, away, mainly young team v full Edinburgh. A lot of positives. Sam was sublime, techtor could be a great 12 with his new bulk.
Scott Penny is relentless.
Can we talk about Byrne’s reaction to his yellow? Pathetic and I think he’ll get scolded for it in the review.
William Andrew
Tector, was competent at 12, that might be a better fit for him considering the glut at 10. Prendergast was very effective too. Nicely timed passing constantly. Defence a bit leaky, but a good start
David Lawlor
Nice to banish the opening game yips we seem to have been suffering from. A joy to watch a Leinster 10 take the ball to the line and his passing was sublime too. The last minute try makes it seem closer than it really was and while it’s disappointing to concede five tries I think the defence will improve as the season goes on. Roll on Friday in the Aviva!
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URC ROUND 1 WRAP
HARPIN' ON RUGBY 