Leinster Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread.

shuffol

Mclaughlin at 4!!

Locky I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship

chancer12

Just have an issue with Ruddock as captain. Isa did a great job last week, don't think Ruddock is up to it yet

molloyjh

chancer12 wrote: »

Just have an issue with Ruddock as captain. Isa did a great job last week, don't think Ruddock is up to it yet

Wasn't Ruddock captain last week too?

totallegend

Me and Joe Schmidt are on the same wavelength alright:

totallegend wrote: »

I'd love to see if Auva'a can sustain his impressive cameo from last week for 80 minutes, and I think Ruddock is more effective at 6 than at 8.

McLaughlin was good at 6 last week but I don't think he has a future there for Leinster first XV or for Ireland; if we're short on quality second-rows, maybe it's worth a try.

Would live to see Ruddock getting a bit more space to carry the ball this week, he just seemed to be constrained at #8 last week.

PS Chancer12; Ruddock was captain for the last two weeks as well

GerM

Squad update:

The Leinster squad trained in UCD on Monday afternoon as they build up to Saturday evening's RaboDirect PRO 12 trip to face the Scarlets in Parc Y Scarlets (KO: 6.30pm)...

The Leinster management - already without 14 players on World Cup duty as well as longer-term absentees such as Mat Berquist, Andrew Conway, Shane Horgan, Tom Sexton and Eamonn Sheridan - counted the cost of Saturday night’s defeat to the Glasgow Warriors with Kevin McLaughlin and Dominic Ryan sustaining ankle injuries. It is anticipated that neither forward will be available for selection this week.
Berquist and Sheridan are expected to be unavailable until the New Year and Conway (ankle) should return over the coming weeks. Meanwhile, hooker Sexton could be back over the next month after undergoing knee surgery over the summer months.

Luke Fitzgerald was withdrawn midway through the second half with cramp as a precautionary basis and though he sat out training on Monday he will hopefully be available for selection.

Steven Sykes stepped up his rehabilitation and though he may again miss out on selection, he could be available for Leinster’s next home match a week later in the RDS against Aironi.

There were debuts for Ireland Under-20 captain Jordi Murphy and prop Nathan White on Saturday night while Isa Nacewa completed a 100% kicking ratio and a 14-point haul.

The Leinster team will be named on Friday lunchtime.

thebaz

thankfully the injuries to ryan and Locky don't seam as bad as feared - leinster down to bare bones

marco_polo

thebaz wrote: »

thankfully the injuries to ryan and Locky don't seam as bad as feared - leinster down to bare bones

That is great news anyway (The injury reports not the barebones bit ).

Superbus

Ryan looked much worse than an ankle injury. That's good news at least.

Unless it's the worst kind of ankle injury, then it's not so good.

padser

Superbus wrote: »

Ryan looked much worse than an ankle injury. That's good news at least.

Unless it's the worst kind of ankle injury, then it's not so good.

Ryan looked like he had done some serious damage - really glad if that's not the case.

Lack of tv screen on Saturday made it v difficult if you missed something in open play

WeeBushy

I thought both injuries look bad and the report doesn't say one way or the other, all it says is that they won't make the weekend. No mention on how serious it is, unless I'm missing something. I think it's worrying.

durkadurka

I think we'd know by now if it was serious

WeeBushy

Maybe I'm being overly pessimistic.

Kinger83

Ryan and McLaughlin both have ankle ligament damage. Out for three weeks apparently..

http://www.leinsterrugby.ie/mdtv/play/media/id/9296

Not so bad, from what i'd heard i thought Ryan had broken his ankle.

wixfjord

Kinger83 wrote: »

Ryan and McLaughlin both have ankle ligament damage. Out for three weeks apparently..

http://www.leinsterrugby.ie/mdtv/play/media/id/9296

Not so bad, from what i'd heard i thought Ryan had broken his ankle.

Well that's some good news anyway, thought by the sounds of it that they were worse than that.

GerM

You have to laugh. Schmidt saying Ben Marshall was the next in line to come into the back row but twisted his knee at the weekend and is out for a few weeks.Noel Reid to be involved this weekend according to Schmidt. 24 players now unavailable to Leinster. Can all Leinster posters please bring their boots to any upcoming games in the RDS?

“There’s going to be some guys who you haven’t seen before out there on Saturday".

"Noel Reid got the game under his belt and he didn’t do a knee. It means he’s still got a few limbs he can throw into the mix on Saturday.”

irishbucsfan

I'm surprised Leinster will be risking Luke on Saturday. I would have thought he'd be on standby for Ireland.

molloyjh

irishbucsfan wrote: »

I'm surprised Leinster will be risking Luke on Saturday. I would have thought he'd be on standby for Ireland.

Not much choice really. We're so short of players at the moment it's ridiculous. How unlucky can 1 club get!? I don't remember the last time we had this many injuries and it would have to come during the RWC!

tolosenc

My mate from Newport once put their injury crisis from a few years back like this:

"Basically, they got to the stage where they were just walking into local pubs and saying 'Anyone want to play the Ospreys at the weekend?'..."

With a bit of luck, it won't get that bad, but we're down nearly a whole team, so this is really testing the depth of one of the deepest squads in Europe.

bamboozle

tolosenc wrote: »

My mate from Newport once put their injury crisis from a few years back like this:

"Basically, they got to the stage where they were just walking into local pubs and saying 'Anyone want to play the Ospreys at the weekend?'..."

With a bit of luck, it won't get that bad, but we're down nearly a whole team, so this is really testing the depth of one of the deepest squads in Europe.

if necessary Leinster can raid some of the AIL clubs to cover the back row during the injury crisis, the likes of Alex Dunlop at Blackrock or Barry O'Mahoney at Clontarf wouldnt look out of place in the magner's league.

Havent see Jordan Coughlan play but plenty of people were saying he'd be good enough for magner's rugby this season.

durkadurka

Locky just tweeted he'll be back in a couple of weeks

Hagz

1. VDM
2. Strauss
3. Hagan
4. Browne
5. Toner
6. Ruddock
7. Murphy
8. Auva'a
9. Willis
10. Madigan
11. Carr
12. Fitzgerald
13. O'Malley
14. Kearney
15. Nacewa

16. Dundon
17. O'Connell
18. McGrath
19. Flanagan
20. Ruddock
21. Cooney
22. Macken
23. Hudson
Any of those guys injured?

Hagz

Hagz wrote: »

1. VDM
2. Strauss
3. Hagan
4. Browne
5. Toner
6. Ruddock
7. Murphy
8. Auva'a
9. Willis
10. Madigan
11. Carr
12. Fitzgerald
13. O'Malley
14. Kearney
15. Nacewa

16. Dundon
17. O'Connell
18. McGrath
19. Flanagan
20. Ruddock
21. Cooney
22. Macken
23. Hudson
Any of those guys injured?

nope, that's it though! Even with a big squad, I think it's academy and AIL after that. Noel Reid in line for some exposure yet?

durkadurka

Aironi next week at home lookin risky at this stage...

CIARAN_BOYLE

I'm counting the days at this stage till the RDP12 break at this stage give people a chance to get fit again and that much closer to the return of the internationals

durkadurka

It's a real pity because I thought this batch of six games was a huge development opportunity and it's going a bit arseways now .

.ak

Maybe it's a trial by fire.

phog

Just looking at your squad and the team listed above. Leaving out those on the WC and those that I know are out injured I'm left with these guys - are they injured also?

Andrew Conway
Jason Harris-Wright
Tom Sexton
Simon Shawe
Steven Sykes
Nathan White

durkadurka

Conway and Sykes are injured anyhow

phog

phog wrote: »

Just looking at your squad and the team listed above. Leaving out those on the WC and those that I know are out injured I'm left with these guys - are they injured also?

Andrew Conway
Jason Harris-Wright
Tom Sexton
Simon Shawe
Steven Sykes
Nathan White

injured

WeeBushy

Has JHW fallen behind Dundon? I thought he looked promising but he hasn't featured much this season. Only 1 sub appearance in the first match so far.