Tag: United Rugby Championship

325 : Cardiff v Leinster wrap

2 March 2024; John McKee of Leinster celebrates as Michael Milne of Leinster, obscured, scores his side’s fourth try during the United Rugby Championship match between Cardiff and Leinster at Cardiff Arms Park in Cardiff, Wales. Photo by Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

🏉 Pack mentality
🏉 Offloadin’ Will
🏉 Carré-d away
🏉 Doin’ sh*t well
🏉 10 outta 10

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CONOR CRONIN & CIARÁN DUFFY

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FULL TIME TAKES

Kevin Kelehan

Scoring when down to 14 was indicative of a team that knows how to win, the hunger in the squad is superb.

Eamon Saunders

Good win again ,great to have so much talent in the set up 👍

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URC WRAP

ROUND 11

EDINBURGH 19-15 OSPREYS

MUNSTER 45-29 ZEBRE

LIONS 40-10 SHARKS

BENETTON 9-19 GLASGOW WARRIORS

BULLS 40-22 STORMERS

CONNACHT 26-10 SCARLETS

CARDIFF 20-33 LEINSTER

ULSTER 49-26 DRAGONS

ROUND 12

FRI MAR 22

GLASGOW V CARDIFF

OSPREYS V MUNSTER

SAT MAR 23

SHARKS V ULSTER

SCARLETS V BENETTON

STORMERS V EDINBURGH

CONNACHT V LIONS

DRAGONS V BULLS

ZEBRE V LEINSTER

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320 : Leinster v Benetton wrap

17 February 2024; Liam Turner of Leinster evades the tackle of Ignacio Mendy of Benetton, right, on his way to scoring his side’s third try during the United Rugby Championship match between Leinster and Benetton at the RDS Arena in Dublin. Photo by Ben McShane/Sportsfile

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🏉 Death by 1,000 scrums

🏉 The Osbourne Supremacy

🏉 Pesky Leprechauns

🏉 Sam’s Glam Cameo

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FULL TIME TAKES

Brian Corr

Great result considering how well Benetton are doing this season and all the missing internationals.

Love Prendergast’s cool under pressure ability, he took a wrong option and was immediately swamped by the defence but had the ability to keep calm and place the ball back so well.

Lots of rusty performances and mistakes due to weather and no recent games.

Delighted to see Byrne get a chance to rinse the spiderwebs off his game and McErlean get a solid game behind him, again pity the weather was so naff for his first tog out.

Greg Kelly

Leinster sticking 47 points on the 2nd placed team tells you all you need to know about the URC

Craig Grehan

Good to see that mixture of players running well. Few fumbles here & there. But very good

Eamon Saunders

Good win nice to see a Wexford man get a try #Brian Deeny

Christy O’Connor

Very scrappy at times from both sides. Have to hand it to Benetton, they fought really well and I don’t think the scoreline does them justice

Dave Murray

Not a spectacular performance but good 5 points.

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URC WRAP

ROUND 10

SCARLETS 7-42 MUNSTER

ZEBRE 19-24 EDINBURGH

LIONS 10-25 BULLS

LEINSTER 47-18 BENETTON

SHARKS 21-25 STORMERS

CARDIFF 12-16 CONNACHT

GLASGOW WARRIORS 40-7 DRAGONS

OSPREYS 19-17 ULSTER

ROUND 11

FRI MAR 1

EDINBURGH V OSPREYS

MUNSTER V ZEBRE

SAT MAR 2

LIONS V SHARKS

BENETTON V GLASGOW WARRIORS

BULLS V STORMERS

CONNACHT V SCARLETS

CARDIFF V LEINSTER

ULSTER V DRAGONS

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300 : Connacht v Leinster wrap

2 December 2023; Harry Byrne of Leinster kicks a conversion during the United Rugby Championship match between Connacht and Leinster at the Sportsground in Galway. Photo by Harry Murphy/Sportsfile
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🏉 MUN, ULS & 7s reviews

🏉 Set pieces in pieces

🏉 Cutting Blade

🏉 Unforced Error Tennis

🏉 That Frawley Step

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FULL TIME TAKES

Andrew Byrne
A last minute try can’t paper over those cracks. We were far below where we should be. Is our squad just too big, all this rotation seems to be causing a lack of cohesion in our playing combinations. I only hope we have a better performance in the bank for next week.

Chris McDonnell
Seriously not good enough. This rotating the whole team had to stop. Too many players just not good enough to play for Leinster.

Darran Kearney
Kinda liking that we are playing so poorly early season, instead of beating everyone out the door and learning nothing. Coaches have 6 months to work with the team for the business end of the season. Hoping we can end this season better than we have in the more recent seasons

Christy O’Connor
Way too much rotation, players playing out of position. Lots of schoolboy errors. Have we not learned anything from the last 2 seasons. We rested players that only played 1 or 2 games. This is now getting ridiculous. Stop giving lads time just for the sake of it. We need to give the core players more time and the others should possibly look to move abroad.

Conor O’Shea
Poor performance, but a wins a win. No major injuries for next week from tonight

Eamon Saunders
A lot of mistakes from both sides but good to get the win 👏👏

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URC ROUND 7 WRAP

ROUND 7

MUNSTER 40-29 GLASGOW

BULLS 44-10 SHARKS

CARDIFF 23-29 SCARLETS

LIONS 49-24 DRAGONS

ULSTER 24-27 EDINBURGH

STORMERS 31-7 ZEBRE

CONNACHT 22-24 LEINSTER

BENETTON18-13 OSPREYS

ROUND 8

FRI DEC 22

GLASGOW WARRIORS V EDINBURGH

ULSTER V CONNACHT

SAT DEC 23

ZEBRE V BENETTON

STORMERS V BULLS

TUE DEC 26

CARDIFF V DRAGONS

SCARLETS V OSPREYS

MUNSTER V LEINSTER

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299 : #CONvLEI preview

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our guest : NEIL ‘KEEGO’ KEEGAN

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Apologies Up Front on Apple Podcasts

Leinster : 15. Ciarán Frawley 14. Rob Russell 13. Robbie Henshaw 12. Charlie Ngatai 11. Jamie Osborne 10. Harry Byrne 9. Ben Murphy

1. Ed Byrne 2. Rónan Kelleher 3. Michael Ala’alatoa 4. Ryan Baird 5. Jason Jenkins 6. Max Deegan 7. Scott Penny 8. James Culhane

16. Lee Barron 17. Cian Healy 18. Tadhg Furlong 19. Ross Molony 20. Jack Conan 21. Cormac Foley 22. Liam Turner 23. Will Connors 

Connacht : 15. Tiernan O’Halloran 14. Mack Hansen 13. Byron Ralston 12. Cathal Forde 11. Diarmuid Kilgallen 10. JJ Hanrahan 9. Caolin Blade

1. Peter Dooley 2. Dave Heffernan 3. Jack Aungier 4. Darragh Murray 5. Oisin Dowling 6. Cian Prendergast 7. Shamus Hurley-Langton 8. Seán Jansen

16. Dylan Tierney-Martin 17. Denis Buckley 18. Finlay Bealham 19. Niall Murray 20. Paul Boyle 21. Michael McDonald 22. David Hawkshaw 23. Conor Oliver

United Rugby Championship 23/24 Round 7

Saturday, November 25, 2023

KO 7:35pm Aviva Stadium

TV : RTÉ2, Premier Sports 1, URC.tv

Referee: Andrew Brace (IRFU)

AR 1: Peter Martin (IRFU)

AR 2: Keane Davison (IRFU)

TMO: Olly Hodges (IRFU)

298 : Opposition view – Connacht

In the latest from our Opposition View series I spoke to Connacht fan Stephen Murphy from the excellent Master of None pod to offer a western perspective ahead of Leinster’s trip to the Sportsground on Saturday.

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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

BENETTON V OSPREYS

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Rugby on TV : Nov 23-28

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NOTE : BT SPORTS IS NOW KNOWN AS TNT SPORTS

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23

7:30PM – PONTYPRIDD V CARMARTHEN QUINS – WELSH PREM – S4C ONLINE

8PM – LEINSTER V SCARLETS (REPLAY) – URC – VIAPLAY/PREMIER 1

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24

7:35PM – CARDIFF V STORMERS – URC – TG4, BBC2 WALES, VIAPLAY/PREMIER 1, URC.TV*

7:35PM – EDINBURGH V BENETTON – URC – VIAPLAY/PREMIER 2, URC.TV*

7:45PM – NORTHAMPTON V HARLEQUINS – PREMIERSHIP – TNT SPORTS 1

7:45PM – SALE SHARKS V BATH – PREMIERSHIP – PR.TV*

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25

12:55PM – LIONS V ZEBRE – URC – VIAPLAY/PREMIER 2, URC.TV*

3PM – BULLS V CONNACHT – URC – RTÉ2, VIAPLAY/PREMIER 2, URC.TV*

3PM – SARACENS V BRISTOL BEARS – PREMIERSHIP –  PR.TV*

3:05PM – GLOUCESTER V LEICESTER TIGERS – PREMIERSHIP – TNT SPORTS 1

5:05PM – SHARKS V DRAGONS – URC – S4C, VIAPLAY/PREMIER 1, URC.TV*

6:30PM – LEINSTER V MUNSTER – URC – TG4, VIAPLAY/PREMIER 2, URC.TV*

7:30PM – NORTHAMPTON V HARLEQUINS (HIGHLIGHTS) – PREMIERSHIP – TNT SPORTS 3

7:35PM – GLASGOW WARRIORS V ULSTER – URC – VIAPLAY/PREMIER 2, URC.TV*

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26

12:30PM – EXETER CHIEFS V BRISTOL BEARS – PREMIERSHIP WOMEN’S – TNT SPORTS 1

3PM – OSPREYS V SCARLETS – URC – VIAPLAY/PREMIER 1, URC.TV*

3PM – NEWCASTLE V EXETER – PREMIERSHIP – TNT SPORTS 1

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27

8PM – AGAINST THE HEAD – RTÉ2

10PM – THE RUGBY REVIEW – TNT SPORTS 2

11PM – 🔝🐱🐴 HIGHLIGHTS – VIAPLAY/PREMIER 1

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28

7:30PM – LEINSTER V MUNSTER (REPLAY) – URC – VIAPLAY/PREMIER 1

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295 : Opposition View – Munster

Our guest : CAOLÁN SCULLY

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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

THIS WEEK’S GUESTS

TOM COLEMAN & RICH MIFSUD

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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293 : #LEIvSCA preview

Our guest : NEIL “KEEGO” KEEGAN

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Apologies Up Front on Apple Podcasts

Leinster : 15. Hugo Keenan 14. Jordan Larmour 13. Garry Ringrose (CC) 12. Jamie Osborne 11. Jimmy O’Brien 10. Sam Prendergast 9. Jamison Gibson-Park

1. Andrew Porter 2. Rónan Kelleher 3. Thomas Clarkson 4. Joe McCarthy 5. James Ryan (CC) 6. Max Deegan 7. Josh van der Flier 8. Caelan Doris

16. Dan Sheehan 17. Jack Boyle 18. Tadhg Furlong 19. Ross Molony 20. Scott Penny 21. Fintan Gunne 22. Ross Byrne 23. Ciarán Frawley

Scarlets : 15 Tom Rogers; 14 Tomi Lewis, 13 Jonathan Davies (capt), 12 Johnny Williams, 11 Ryan Conbeer; 10 Charlie Titcombe, 9 Kieran Hardy

1 Wyn Jones, 2 Shaun Evans, 3 Harri O’Connor, 4 Alex Craig, 5 Jac Price, 6 Ben Williams, 7 Teddy Leatherbarrow, 8 Carwyn Tuipulotu.

16 Ryan Elias, 17 Steff Thomas, 18 Sam Wainwright, 19 Morgan Jones, 20 Iwan Shenton, 21 Archie Hughes, 22 Ioan NIcholas, 23 Scott Williams

United Rugby Championship 2023/24 Round 5

Saturday November 18, 2023 KO 7:35pm

RDS Arena

TV : TG4, S4C, Viaplay/Premier Sports & URC.tv

Referee: Hollie Davidson (SRU)

AR 1: Eoghan Cross (IRFU) 

AR 2: Stuart Douglas (IRFU)

TMO: Andrew McMenemy (SRU)