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297 : Leinster v Munster wrap

25 November 2023; Dan Sheehan of Leinster dives over to score his side’s second try despite the efforts of Gavin Coombes and Jack Crowley of Munster during the United Rugby Championship match between Leinster and Munster at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo by Harry Murphy/Sportsfile
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🏉 ULS & CON reviews

🏉 Early Munster pressure

🏉 JGP opportunism

🏉 First Receiver Frawley

🏉 Leinster D 2.0

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FULL TIME TAKES

Conor Cronin

Leinster were not at their best tonight, and indeed far from it. A few players that might be considered world class might need a break ad they haven’t been at their best for a while and (a la Richie McCaw) might benefit from the rest

On the plus side, far from our best we ground out a win, Jordan Larmour back scoring tries, and Frawley proving he’s the real deal at 10 are my personal biggest positives for tonight, I only hope these are consistent positives, not one off.

The scrappy start probably suited us to need to fight back, the errors and lack of clinical finishing did not suit us and weren’t the Leinstertainment we would expect, give me more in the red zone please!

Gavin Hegarty

Leinster were far from their best but still ground out a win. Some very uncharacteristic errors from seasoned internationals.

A few bad missed tackles from Ringer, dropped balls from Jimmy, Doris is left wanting and Furlong just ambling along.

Nice for Frawley to get proper time at ten and show what he can do.

Take a bow Jack Conan, great game.

Ronan McManus

It was a bit scrappy (maybe partially Ireland hangover) but a decent win against a team whose only other loss was Ulster away.

6. Jack Conan should be delighted with his performance. The option of keeping him and Doris on the pitch together more often gives a bit more depth (Nienaber influence, presumably)

Jimmy OBrien looked sharp, but missed a few opportunities to weave gold from shit, that the great wingers would have seized.

Very disappointing for Ross Byrne, who looked good. This could have been an important one as far as Ireland is concerned.

Great finish by Larmour for his try. Hopefully the sign of things to come.

Christy O’Connor

Hard to take positives from that display except for Frawley stepping up. School boy errors the whole game.

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FRONT FIVE ARTICLES

1  Kitshoff’s Ulster debut ends in defeat | Rugby365 [via URC]

2  Burly Bulls bully Connacht (sarugbymag.co.za)

3  Peter O’Mahony steps down as Munster captain (irishexaminer.com) [Cian Locke]

4  Blair Kinghorn: Scotland & Edinburgh full-back to join Toulouse in December – BBC Sport

5  Is Jacques Nienaber impacting Leinster sooner than anticipated? – The Irish Times [Nathan Johns]

URC WRAP

ROUND 6

CARDIFF 31-24 STORMERS

EDINBURGH 22-24 BENETTON

LIONS 61-19 ZEBRE

BULLS 53-27 CONNACHT

SHARKS 69-14 DRAGONS

LEINSTER 21-16 MUNSTER

GLASGOW 33-20 ULSTER

OSPREYS 31-9 SCARLETS

ROUND 7

FRI DEC 1

MUNSTER V GLASGOW

SAT DEC 2

BULLS V SHARKS

CARDIFF V SCARLETS

LIONS V DRAGONS

ULSTER V EDINBURGH

STORMERS V ZEBRE

CONNACHT V LEINSTER

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294 : Leinster v Scarlets wrap

18 November 2023; Sam Prendergast of Leinster scores his side’s first try during the United Rugby Championship match between Leinster and Scarlets at the RDS Arena in Dublin. Photo by Harry Murphy/Sportsfile
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🏉 Scarlet shortcomings

🏉 Defensive changes

🏉 Jamie at 12

🏉 Ross milestones

🏉 Keenan eager

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FULL TIME TAKES

Gavin Hegarty

A good win but still a little disappointing. A good place to be when we’re disappointed to concede 5 to the Scarlets.

Prendergast did well but he’s too light in defence, he’d need more back row cover going forward.

Well done to Ross Byrne on his 150th cap.

Joe Mc was unreal again, he’s a fine future in front of him

(reply to Gavin) Peter Tracey

I’m glad they weren’t great. Loads to work on for next week and Jack will be in place.

Agree about Prendergast but that will come so not too worried.

Could Ross be top points scorer in the future? The only thing is if he’s in Ireland squads.

Joe is going to have a big season. I liked Gunne’s passing when he came on. Looked good for Ireland u20s.

We need to start bringing through a few 9s and props which we are.

Brian Corr

I enjoyed the game, I think it’s funny though that I have to remind myself as do many others that a 54-5 win is an excellent result.

It’s great to see Osbourne in particular doing so well, and the more Prendergast and Gunne get opportunities, the better Leinster will do.

The international contingent had a mixed bag, overall good and funnily enough Furlong looked very sharp.

Delighted for Keenan to get POTM, brilliant as usual.

Kevin Kelehan

Dominant and top of the table

Warren Doyle

God almighty we won👏👏👏👏

Jamie Donohoe

Jimmy O Brien had a superb game

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FRONT FIVE ARTICLES

1  Defensive excellence key as Munster record another win over Stormers (irishexaminer.com) [Simon Lewis]

2  Ulster fight back to secure victory over Lions at rain-swept Ravenhill | BelfastTelegraph.co.uk [Jonathan Bradley]

3  Connacht pile the pain on winless Sharks (sarugbymag.co.za)

4  Taine Basham: Dragons flanker suspended for four matches after Leinster red card – BBC Sport

5  [no English language article available for Netherlands’ U20 victories over Portugal & Belgium]

URC WRAP

ROUND 5

EDI 31-23 BUL

ULS 24-17 LIO

ZEB 22-22 CAR

SHA 12-13 CON

DRA 20-5 OSP

MUN 10-3 STO

GLA 26-12 BEN

LEI 54-5 SCA

ROUND 6

FRI NOV 24

CARDIFF V STORMERS

EDINBURGH V BENETTON

SAT NOV 25

LIONS V ZEBRE

BULLS V CONNACHT

SHARKS V DRAGONS

LEINSTER V SCARLETS

GLASGOW V ULSTER

SUN NOV 26

OSPREYS V SCARLETS

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289 : #LEIvEDI preview

also available as podcast

Our guest : TOM COLEMAN

Leinster : 15. Ciarán Frawley 14. Tommy O’Brien 13. Jamie Osborne 12. Charlie Ngatai 11. Jordan Larmour 10. Harry Byrne 9. Cormac Foley

1. Jack Boyle 2. Lee Barron 3. Michael Ala’alatoa 4. Ross Molony 5. Jason Jenkins 6. Max Deegan 7. Scott Penny > CAPTAIN 8. James Culhane

16. Dylan Donnellan 17. Paddy McCarthy 18. Rory McGuire 19. Brian Deeny 20. Rhys Ruddock 21. Ben Murphy 22. Sam Prendergast 23. Rob Russell 

Edinburgh : 15. Blair Kinghorn 14. Wes Goosen 13. Mark Bennett 12. Matt Currie 11. Duhan van der Merwe 10. Ben Healy 9. Charlie Shiel

1. Pierre Schoeman 2. Dave Cherry 3. WP Nel 4. Glen Young 5. Grant Gilchrist (c) 6. Tom Dodd 7. Hamish Watson 8. Luke Crosbie

16. Ewan Ashman 17. Boan Venter 18. Javan Sebastian 19. Marshall Sykes 20. Connor Boyle 21. Hector Patterson 22. James Lang 23. Chris Dean

United Rugby Championship 2023/24 Round 3

Saturday November 4, 2023 KO 3:05pm

RDS Arena

TV : RTÉ2, Premier Sports 1, URC.tv 

Ref: Marius van der Westhuizen (SARU)

AR 1:  Keane Davison (IRFU)  

AR 2: Jonathan Erskine (IRFU)

TMO: Sean Brickell (WRU)

281 : Ireland v Scotland wrap

🏉 Plucky Portugal

🏉 On top from the top

🏉 The Smith Shamozzle

🏉 Whiskey On The Wing

🏉 Do ABs want to play us?

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FRONT FIVE ARTICLES

1  French flair as Les Bleus cruise past Italy – france | Rugby365 [via AFP]

2  Leinster Rugby | Match Report: Castres Olympique 24 Leinster 14 [Des Berry]

3 Portugal earn shock World Cup win over Fiji · The 42 [via AFP]

4  Rugby World Cup: England sleepwalk into last eight with Samoa escape – BBC Sport [Mike Henson]

5  Match Report – Japan 27 – 39 Argentina | 08 Oct 2023 (skysports.com)

FULL-TIME TAKES

Mark Jackson
Told ya so 😉

Josephine Boyd
Fantastic performance from our boys in green a great win ☘️💚🏈💪💪👍👏

Alastair McDermott
You have to be a little bit worried playing New Zealand in the quarterfinals. But just think: they are shitting it facing Ireland.

Angela Cassin Jackson
Simply brilliant ☘️☘️☘️

Christy O’Connor
What a performance, every player played their part. Ringrose was motm for me but so many put their hands up.
Scotland were giving too much respect before this game by so many pundits. Was never in doubt

Kevin Kelehan
Dan Sheehan was superb

Antoinette Nevin
Zombie 👏👏👏👏

Hubert Gallagher
Scotland outclassed. Hopefully injuries not too serious to Hansen, Lowe, Furlong and Ryan. 1 week to prepare for ABs! Another huge step up!

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278 : South Africa v Ireland wrap

2023 Rugby World Cup Pool B, Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France 23/9/2023South Africa vs IrelandIrelands Bundee Aki makes a breakMandatory Credit ©INPHO/James Crombie

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🏉 LEIvULS review

🏉 Irish problem solving

🏉 South African decision making

🏉 Boxers v Fighters

🏉 Absolute Focking Scenes

FULL TIME TAKES

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Neil Keegan

Thanks be to jaysus we have 2 weeks off Let’s get everyone together for all the games going forward. That was magic. Our parents / grandparents never had that moment. 

Andrew Potts

It was some match, take a few days to process that one.

Amazing SA power and physical

ity and amazing resilience by Ireland. Cough up 6 lineouts and not looked phased by big South African forwards.

Kevin Kelehan

Ireland made so many mistakes, but they have a clear winning mentality, between O’Connell and Farrell you have the two parts of winning, coolness and passion.

Pieter Smit (SA fan)

Well played Ireland. Deserved winners

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FRONT FIVE LINKS

1  Dupont’s devastating injury leaves France hopes hanging in balance | Rugby World Cup 2023 | The Guardian [Raphael Jucobin]

2 Leinster Rugby | Match report: Leinster 38-21 Ulster

3 Rugby World Cup 2023: Wallabies’ World Cup in tatters after record Wales loss (smh.com.au) [Tom Decent]

4 Portugal suffer late heartbreak against Georgia – georgia | Rugby365 [via AFP]

5 Ireland’s group rivals Scotland keep World Cup hopes alive with bonus-point victory (the42.ie)

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269 : Ireland v England wrap

2023 Bank of Ireland Nations Series, Aviva Stadium, Dublin 19/8/2023 Ireland vs England Ireland’s Keith Earls celebrates scoring a try Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/Evan Treacy

🏉 Women’s Interpros

🏉 Slow start at the Aviva

🏉 IRE>ENG in attack & confidence 

🏉 Im-Mack-ulate display

🏉 Fairytale for The Man

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263 : 2023 Ireland Under 20s review

2023 World Rugby Under 20 Championships Final, Athlone Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa 14/7/2023 Ireland vs France Ireland’s John Devine scores their second try Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/SteveHaagSports/Darren Stewart

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🏉 Rugby Championship Rd 2

🏉 Sexton saga [verdict released after recording but we were able to edit in a quick reaction]

🏉 Champions Cup draw

🏉 World U20s final

🏉 Irish U20s overall

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259 : Ireland U20s v Australia, Sexton debate & other offseason stuff

2023 World Rugby Under 20 Championships, Paarl Gymnasium, South Africa 29/6/2023 Australia vs Ireland James Nicholson of Ireland scores a try Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/Darren Stewart

🏉 Champions Cup draw

🏉 Vakh Abdeladze to Brive

🏉 New Leinster kit supplier

🏉 Sexton debate

🏉 Irish Men’s 7s

🏉 Irish U20s v Australia (this portion also available on YouTube)

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253 : HCC final & 22/23 season wrap

THIS WEEK’S GUESTS

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FULL TIME TAKES

Kevin Kelehan

The true impact of James Ryan on this team is now fully understood. Better team over 80 minutes won, without Ryan we had no answer to Skelton, ref had a good game. This was the 2011 final won for a second star by a team dead and buried after the first quarter. Jack Conan was again superb.

Andrew Bailey

Hugely disappointing. 17 points up and we stoped playing. Signs of panic Kicked so much ball away. Hard to see how this team progresses .Winning by 40 points each week is no preparation

Christy O’Connor

Sometimes teams need to win ugly and grind a result, Leinster need to learn how to do this. No point taking a big lead and not knowing how to defend it

James Griffin (Munster fan)

Hard luck Leinster folks. That was some start but LaR ground their way back in and then strangled Leinster with their power. I think they were helped in that by James Ryan’s absence (physicality and leadership), kicks out on the full, a blocked attempted clearance, some needless penalties / cards, and some wayward long kicking back to them. The slowdown in tempo from Q2 onwards helped LaR but hindered Leinster. Can’t understand why there wasn’t a drop goal attempt at the end; a try wasn’t needed at that stage.

Aidan O’Leary

We missed Sexton the leader as much as the player today.

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251 – Leinster v Munster wrap

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Conor Cronin

This is a game I’ll need to watch back.

In the stand, if you believe the boos, comments here, comments all over the Internet etc we can only blame one person but I blame the urc. How did they put that referee in the position that he can be blamed? It’s outrageous that he be put in that position. Any other ref could be chosen so that the “he played” nonsense wouldn’t be am issue.

Regardless, you play the decisions, and adapt.

Well done munster, good luck on the 27th.

Craig Grehan

As an out & out leinster fan. We disrespected munster in cup rugby by not selecting our best team.

A team that does that, does it at their peril. We took the gamble and lost to the MUCH better team on the day.

Andrew Potts

A disappointing day for Leinster fond the demands of a month of weekly knock out rugby a step to far today.

Could have won it but Munster could had a few tries.

Frank Murphy did nothing today but enhance his reputation as a very flawed Ref and biased against Leinster.

In the first minute a player leaves the field unconscious. The result of a high tackle.

I thought three questions had to be answered by the Ref

Was there contact with the head?

Was force applied?

Any mitigation ?

It’s a card but only what colour.

The sanctions must have changed.

The length of time Leinster were defending under advantage was ridiculous, certainly he was a factor.

John Hyland

Munster were the better side today. For right or for wrong, Leo has prioritised the fifth star. This was always going to be a tight game. Let’s hope Munster can do the biz in SA.

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Koochulainn  Munster were up for it… Can’t complain we weren’t clinical enough 😦

FRONT FIVE ARTICLES

  1. Ireland women sevens qualify for Olympics (rte.ie) 
  2. Terenure Centre Says Provinces Should Give Young AIL Players A Chance | Balls.ie [Colman Stanley]
  3. European Professional Club Rugby | Dublin Heineken Champions Cup final confirmed as sell-out (epcrugby.com)
  4.  Premiership: George Ford boots Sale Sharks past Leicester Tigers to final : PlanetRugby 
  5. Magical Manie sends Stormers to URC final (sarugbymag.co.za)

URC SEMIFINAL WRAP

URC SEMIFINALS
STO 43-25 CON
LEI 15-16 MUN

URC FINAL
SAT MAY 27
STO V MUN

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