Category: Emirates Lions

379 : Leinster v Lions wrap

26 October 2024; Josh van der Flier of Leinster is tackled by Edwill van der Merwe and Erich Cronje of Emirates Lions during the United Rugby Championship match between Leinster and Emirates Lions at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

🏉 9/10 combinations

🏉 Proud Lions

🏉 Forcing knockons

🏉 Caelan & Josh

🏉 Late gloss

THIS WEEK’S GUESTS

TOM COLEMAN

RICHARD MIFSUD

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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378 : Leinster v Lions preview

also available as a podcast

Our guest : NEIL “KEEGO” KEEGAN

www.keegolaughs.com

Apologies Up Front on Apple Podcasts

LEINSTER :  15. Hugo Keenan 14. Andrew Osborne 13. Hugh Cooney 12. Robbie Henshaw 11. James Lowe 10. Sam Prendergast 9. Luke McGrath

1. Michael Milne 2. Gus McCarthy 3. Rabah Slimani 4. RG Snyman 5. Ryan Baird 6. Max Deegan 7. Josh van der Flier 8. Caelan Doris (c) 

16. Stephen Smyth 17. Andrew Porter 18. Thomas Clarkson 19. Brian Deeny 20. James Culhane 21. Cormac Foley 22. Ross Byrne 23. Charlie Tector

Emirates Lions : 15 Quan Horn 14 Richard Kriel 13 Henco van Wyk 12 Rhynhardt Jonker 11 Edwill van der Merwe  10 Kade Wolhuter 9 Morne van den Berg

 1 Juan Schoeman 2 Jaco Visagie 3 Asenathi Ntlabakanye 4 Reinhard Nothnagel 5  Ruben Schoeman 6  JC Pretorius 7  Jarod Cairns 8  Francke Horn (c)

16 Franco Marais 17  Heiko Pohlmann 18  RF Schoeman 19 Ruan Delport 20 Renzo du Plessis 21  Sanele Nohamba 22  Marius Louw 23  Erich Cronje

United Rugby Championship 24/25 Round 6

Saturday, October 26, 2024

KO 5:15pm Dexcom Stadium

Live on: RTÉ2, Premier Sports 2, & URC.tv

Referee: Craig Evans (WRU)

AR 1: Peter Martin (IRFU)

AR 2: Stuart Gaffikin (IRFU)

TMO: Aled Griffiths (WRU)

340 : Lions v Leinster wrap & URC run-in overview

20 April 2024; Charlie Ngatai of Leinster, supported by teammate Scott Penny, is tackled by PJ Botha of Emirates Lions during the United Rugby Championship match between Emirates Lions and Leinster at Emirates Airline Park in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photo by Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

🏉 Lions cohesion

🏉 No way back

🏉 Fast news week

🏉 Race for the top 8

🏉 May squad management

THIS WEEK’S GUESTS

CONOR CRONIN & RICH MIFSUD

FULL TIME TAKES

Odran John OBrien

A game I’ve already forgotten 😉😂

Alastair McDermott

That was embarrassing. Performance was naive and inaccurate. Some of that is on the young lads not performing individually, but I think a major part is some of the older lads we’d hope to step up and lead in those circumstances failed to do so.

Greg Kelly

We were playing touch rugby in defence. If you are one of the teams fighting for 4th-8th you’d be excused for asking why Leinster don’t serve up 5 points away to you too?🤷‍♂️ We started dreadfully and then when we found a rythem we were woefully inaccurate.

Getting beaten like that is acceptable if we can walk away with silverware at the end. If not then questions need to be asked.

Éamonn Rogers

Honestly it was a game with little at stake played at 1700m (for context nearly 700m higher than Carrountoohil) I’d see it as nothing more than a blooding exercise/fixture we are obliged to fulfil. The stats show that there were a lot of positive elements. We (thankfully) don’t have the luxury of sending our primary team down like our southern cousins. Overall I’d say we could have done better but not the end of the world

Kevin Kelehan

A lot of players will be very disappointed with their performance, got the chance to shine and made unforced errors, hopefully a big improvement next week.

William Andrew

Looked like an unfocused Leinster. Distracted by the hype of this last week, etc etc. Everyone who has ever played knows you have to be dialed in 100% or you will struggle.

Lions were very sharp and handled the blitz defence with pace and good passing. Northampton are going to be all over this video.

A wake up call, last season we were great and not great for about the last three minutes in two games. 😢

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ROUND 14

ULSTER 19-17 CARDIFF

GLASGOW 21-10 SHARKS

LIONS 44-12 LEINSTER

BENETTON 36-19 DRAGONS

BULLS 22-27 MUNSTER

STORMERS 21-27 OSPREYS

CONNACHT 54-16 ZEBRE

EDINBURGH 43-18 SCARLETS

ROUND 15

FRI APR 26

SCARLETS V SHARKS

ULSTER V BENETTON

SAT APR 27

ZEBRE V GLASGOW

BULLS V OSPREYS

CARDIFF V EDINBURGH

LIONS V MUNSTER

STORMERS V LEINSTER

DRAGONS V CONNACHT

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339 : Lions v Leinster preview

also available as podcast

Our guest : NEIL ‘KEEGO’ KEEGAN

www.keegolaughs.com

Apologies Up Front on Apple Podcasts

LEINSTER : 15: Ciarán Frawley 14: Rob Russell 13: Liam Turner 12: Charlie Ngatai 11: Andrew Osborne 10: Harry Byrne 9: Luke McGrath

1: Cian Healy 2: Lee Barron 3: Thomas Clarkson 4: Brian Deeny 5: Jason Jenkins 6: Diarmuid Mangan 7: Scott Penny (c) 8: Max Deegan

16: John McKee 17: Michael Milne 18: Michael Ala’alatoa 19: Ross Molony 20: Rhys Ruddock 21: Cormac Foley 22: San Prendergast 23: Ben Brownlee

LIONS : 15. Quan Horn 14. Richard Kriel 13. Erich Cronje 12. Marius Louw (c) 11. Edwill van der Merwe 10. Sanele Nohamba 9. Morne van den Berg

1. Morgan Naude 2. PJ Botha 3. Ruan Dreyer 4. Willem Alberts 5. Ruan Delport 6. JC Pretorius 7. Emmanuel Tshituka 8. Francke Horn
16. Jaco Visagie 17. JP Smith 18. Asenathi Ntlabakanye 19. Reinhard Nothnagel 20. Sibusiso Sangweni 21. Nico Steyn 22. Jordan Hendrikse 23. Henco van Wyk

BKT United Rugby Championship 2023/24 Round 14

Saturday, April 20, 2024

KO 2pm  Emirates Airlines Park

Live on: RTÉ2, URC.tv

Referee: Gianluca Gnecchi (Italy)

AR1: Morne Ferreira (South Africa)

AR2: Christopher Allison (South Africa)

TMO: Andrea Piardi (Italy)

243 : Lions v Leinster wrap

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THIS WEEK’S GUESTS

RICH MIFSUD & JOE SHEPPARD

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Greg Kelly From the first scrum the Lions looked uneasy. They looked like they expected the young guns to have a crack but to fall away. However they didn’t. Lions lived off Leinster errors and a lack of cohesion.

Up the ladders and age grades Leinster lose very few games and sometimes that shows. Players that are not used to losing generally don’t fall away.

Christy O’Connor Lot of pressure on Prendergast, I originally thought it was a mistake to start him but after a bit of a shaky first half he got more into the game and made the difference in the end.

Big statement to come from behind when down to 13 men and we were nowhere near full strength

Andrew Potts Any win in SA is to be respected, fantastic result for young players and praise also for Ruddock and Deegan for keeping the lads focused when it could have gone South

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URC ROUND 17 WRAP

ROUND 17

SHA 43-33 BEN

GLA 12-9 SCA

ULS 40-19 DRA

BUL 78-12 ZEB

LIO 36-39 LEI

STO 24-26 MUN

EDI 45-21 OSP

CON 38-19 CAR

ROUND 18

FRI APR 21

STO V BEN

ULS V EDI

SAT SPR 22

LIO V ZEB

DRA V SCA

BUL V LEI

SHA V MUN

OSP V CAR

GLA V CON

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242 : Harpin Preview Show – #LIOvLEI

apologies for issues with Tom’s video

Our guest : TOM COLEMAN

Leinster : 15. Chris Cosgrave 14. Tommy O’Brien 13. Liam Turner 12. Ben Brownlee 11. Dave Kearney 10. Sam Prendergast 9. Nick McCarthy

1. Michael Milne 2. Lee Barron 3. Vakhtang Abdaladze 4. Brian Deeny 5. Jason Jenkins 6. Rhys Ruddock > CAPTAIN7. Will Connors 8. Max Deegan

16. Tadgh McElroy 17. Ed Byrne 18. Thomas Clarkson 19. Alex Soroka 20. James Culhane 21. Ben Murphy 22. Charlie Tector 23. Rob Russell

Lions : 15 Q Horn 14 S Pienaar 13 M Raas 12 M Louw (c) 11 E vd Merwe 10 G Lombard 9 S Nohamba

1 R Runsburger 2 PJ Botha 3 A Ntlabakanye 4 W Alberts 5 R Schoeman 6 J Kriel 7 R Delport 8 F Horn

16 M Brandon 17 JP Smith 18 R Dreyer 19 DL Landsberg 20 T Gordon 21 M vd Berg 22 R Jonker 23 A Coetzee

BKT United Rugby Championship 2022/23

Round 17

Sat Apr 15 KO 3pm

Emirates Airline Park, Johannesburg

Referee: Mike Adamson (SRU)

AR 1: Morne Ferreira (SARU)

AR 2: Stephan Geldenhuys (SARU)

TMO: David Sutherland (SRU)

Live on: RTÉ, Viaplay, Premier Sports & URC.tv

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