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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)

377 : Connacht v Leinster wrap

19 October 2024; Max Deegan of Leinster scores his side’s fourth try, despite the tackle of Connacht’s Shayne Bolton, during the United Rugby Championship match between Connacht and Leinster at Dexcom Stadium in Galway. Photo by Seb Daly/Sportsfile

🏉 Galway gusts

🏉 Fast start. Again.

🏉 Frawley

🏉 LaRGer than life

🏉 Defence. Again.

THIS WEEK’S GUESTS

CONOR CRONIN

CIAN O’MUILLEOIR

FULL TIME TAKES

Jackie McEachern

Happy enough with the Leinster performance. I was nervous when Frawley went off so early but thought Ross did a good job, especially in the conditions. Hope Frawley’s injury isn’t too bad.

Gavin Hegarty

Not much more else you can ask for. Top points from each outing. Yes we kinda let them back in it but we were never not dominant.

Clarkson for me had been coming into his own this season, he’ll be capped soon enough.

So utterly unlucky for frawley, this was his chance for the autumn series.

Craig Grehan

I think the match although winning shows some poorer choices of play by jpg at times.

Shows frawley is like the munster era snyman …and snyman is becoming a fan favourite.

Connacht as always put up a good fight and on another day would get more bang for their buck.

Cormac Mannion

I think we were switched on for a lot longer than last week. Hopefully Frawley’s injury isn’t too bad. Rotten luck for him

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376 : Connacht v Leinster preview

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LEINSTER : 15. Hugo Keenan 14. Liam Turner 13. Garry Ringrose 12. Jamie Osborne 11. Andrew Osborne 10. Ciarán Frawley 9. Jamison Gibson-Park

1. Jack Boyle 2. Gus McCarthy 3. Rabah Slimani 4. RG Snyman 5. James Ryan (c) 6. Max Deegan 7. Will Connors 8. James Culhane

16. Stephen Smyth 17. Andrew Porter 18. Thomas Clarkson 19. Brian Deeny 20. Scott Penny 21. Fintan Gunne 22. Ross Byrne 23. Hugh Cooney 

Connacht : 15. Piers O’Conor 14. Shayne Bolton 13. David Hawkshaw 12. Bundee Aki 11. Santiago Cordero 10. Josh Ioane 9. Ben Murphy

1. Denis Buckley 2. Dave Heffernan 3. Finlay Bealham 4. Joe Joyce 5. Darragh Murray 6. Cian Prendergast (c) 7. Sean O’Brien 8. Paul Boyle

16. Dylan Tierney-Martin 17. Peter Dooley 18. Jack Aungier 19. Niall Murray 20. Sean Jansen 21. Caolin Blade 22. Cathal Forde 23. Hugh Gavin

United Rugby Championship 24/25 Round 5

Saturday, October 19, 2024

KO 7:35pm Dexcom Stadium

Live on: TG4, Premier Sports 1, & URC.tv

Referee: Eoghan Cross (IRFU)

AR 1: Keane Davison (IRFU)

AR 2: Jonny Erskine (IRFU)

TMO: Leo Colgan (IRFU)

375 : Leinster v Munster wrap

12 October 2024; RG Snyman of Leinster celebrates with team-mates after scoring their side’s fourth try during the United Rugby Championship match between Leinster and Munster at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

🏉 Brisk assessment

🏉 RG impact

🏉 In our defence…

🏉 Makeshift units

🏉 Doris’ day

THIS WEEK’S GUESTS

DAVID CORDIAL

HUGO GORDON

FULL TIME TAKES

Cormac Mannion

Bar 2mins just before half time, we looked really disjointed and out of ideas after we scored the third try. It really was quite bizarre because we looked incredibly sharp in the first 15mins.

Also, setting up caterpillar rucks in the opposition half and launching up and unders? Seriously?

Micheal M Priest

Leinster, true to form, fall out of the game in the second half after creating a big lead. Just like previous European Cup finals.

Alright in this league against the likes of Munster, but get punished by the likes of La Rochelle and Toulouse. With such a large talented squad, when will serious questions be asked?

Aonghus O’Brien

Leinster defence looking good. Seemed to run out of ideas in attack in the second half but hopefully they are holding a bit back for the bigger European cup games etc

John Hyland

Leinster are turning into a 40 minute team. If they want silverware, they’ll need to get a lot more ruthless

Craig Grehan

Leinster were very much a first half team in the match.

The ref killed munster at times, but then again so did munster ball handling. A win is a win though.

Kevin Kelehan

Munster kept their shape despite the score, round 3 done. Who were the 1,800 eijits who paid good money for tickets and failed to turn up?

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374 : Leinster v Munster preview

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LEINSTER : 15. Hugo Keenan 14. Liam Turner 13. Garry Ringrose 12. Jamie Osborne 11. James Lowe 10. Ciarán Frawley 9. Jamison Gibson-Park

1. Andrew Porter 2. Lee Barron 3. Tadhg Furlong 4. RG Snyman 5. James Ryan 6. Jack Conan 7. Josh van der Flier 8. Caelan Doris (c) 

16. Gus McCarthy 17. Cian Healy 18. Thomas Clarkson 19. Ryan Baird 20. Max Deegan 21. Luke McGrath 22. Ross Byrne 23. Harry Byrne

Munster : 15 Mike Haley; 14 Calvin Nash, 13 Tom Farrell, 12 Alex Nankivell, 11 Seán O’Brien; 10 Jack Crowley, 9 Craig Casey

1 Jeremy Loughman, 2 Niall Scannell, 3 Stephen Archer; 4 Jean Kleyn, 5 Tadhg Beirne (C); 6 Jack O’Donoghue, 7 John Hodnett, 8 Gavin Coombes.

16 Diarmuid Barron, 17 Kieran Ryan, 18 John Ryan, 19 Tom Ahern, 20 Ruadhán Quinn, 21 Conor Murray, 22 Tony Butler, 23 Shay McCarthy.

United Rugby Championship 24/25 Round 4

Saturday, October 12, 2024

KO 5:45pm Stadio Monigo

Live on: RTÉ2, Premier Sports 1, & URC.tv

Referee: Chris Busby (IRFU)

AR 1: Peter Martin (IRFU)

AR 2: Keane Davison (IRFU)

TMO: Mark Patton (IRFU)

373 : Benetton v Leinster wrap

5 October 2024; Ciarán Frawley of Leinster beats the tackle of Tommaso Menoncello of Benetton on the way to scoring his side’s second try during the United Rugby Championship match between Benetton and Leinster at Stadio Monigo in Treviso, Italy. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

🏉 The Perfect 10

🏉 Injury worries

🏉 On the blitz

🏉 Split decision 

🏉 He’s alright, Jack

THIS WEEK’S GUESTS

TOM COLEMAN

CIARÁN DUFFY

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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372 : Benetton v Leinster 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. Jimmy O’Brien 13. Garry Ringrose 12. Jamie Osborne 11. James Lowe 10. Ciarán Frawley 9. Jamison Gibson-Park

1. Andrew Porter 2. Rónan Kelleher 3. Tadhg Furlong 4. Joe McCarthy 5. RG Snyman 6. Jack Conan 7. Josh van der Flier 8. Caelan Doris (c) 

16. Lee Barron 17. Michael Milne 18. Thomas Clarkson 19. Ryan Baird 20. Brian Deeny 21. Fintan Gunne 22. Ross Byrne 23. Scott Penny

Benetton : 15 Matt Gallagher 14 Ignacio Mendy 13 Tommaso Menoncello 12 Malakai Fekitoa 11 Paolo Odogwu 10 Jacob Umaga 9 Alessandro Garbisi

1 Mirco Spagnolo 2 Siua Maile 3 Simone Ferrari 4 Niccolò Cannone 5 Riccardo Favretto 6 Sebastian Negri 7 Manuel Zuliani 8 Michele Lamaro (C)

16 Marco Manfredi 17 Destiny Aminu 18 Enzo Avaca19 Federico Ruzza 20 Giulio Marini 21 Lorenzo Cannone 22 Andy Uren 23 Leonardo Marin

United Rugby Championship 24/25 Round 3

Saturday, October 5, 2024

KO 5:15pm Stadio Monigo

Live on: RTÉ2, Premier Sports 1 & URC.tv

Referee: Craig Evans (WRU)

AR 1: Federico Vedovelli (FIR) 

AR 2: Alex Frasson (FIR)

TMO: Aled Griffiths (WRU)

371 : Leinster v Dragons wrap

27 September 2024; Cian Healy of Leinster after the United Rugby Championship match between Leinster and Dragons at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile
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🏉 D for Dragons

🏉 Jamie kicking on

🏉 Dev Jr cameo

🏉 Joe & Josh impact

🏉 The Gunne Show

THIS WEEK’S GUESTS

RICHARD MIFSUD

JAY LONG

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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370 : Leinster v Dragons preview

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Our guest : NEIL “KEEGO” KEEGAN

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Apologies Up Front on Apple Podcasts

LEINSTER : 15. Jamie Osborne 14. Jordan Larmour 13. Liam Turner 12. Charlie Tector 11. Jimmy O’Brien 10. Ross Byrne 9. Luke McGrath

1. Cian Healy 2. Gus McCarthy 3. Thomas Clarkson 4. Brian Deeny 5. James Ryan 6. Max Deegan 7. Will Connors 8. Jack Conan (c)

16. Lee Barron 17. Michael Milne 18. Rabah Slimani 19. Joe McCarthy 20. Josh van der Flier 21. Fintan Gunne 22. Harry Byrne 23. Aitzol King

Dragons RFC: 15 Angus O’Brien, 14 Rio Dyer, 13 Harry Wilson, 12 Steff Hughes, 11 Jared Rosser, 10 Lloyd Evans, 9 Dane Blacker

1 Rodrigo Martinez, 2 Brodie Coghlan, 3 Chris Coleman, 4 Ben Carter (c), 5 George Nott, 6 Ryan Woodman, 7 Harri Keddie, 8 Shane Lewis-Hughes

16 Oli Burrows, 17 Rhodri Jones, 18 Luke Yendle, 19 Matthew Screech, 20 George Young, 21 Rhodri Williams, 22 Joe Westwood, 23 Ewan Rosser

United Rugby Championship 24/25 Round 2

Friday, September 27, 2024

KO 7:35pm Aviva Stadium

Live on: TG4, Premier Sports 1 & URC.tv

Referee: Mike Adamson (SRU)

AR 1: Eoghan Cross (IRFU)

AR 2: Tomas O’Sullivan (IRFU)

TMO: Dave Sutherland (SRU)