Leinster Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread.

.ak

Was thinking that myself. I particularly liked the last part when he talks about picking up as much as he can learn from the likes of Thorn, Cullen and Dev.

irishbucsfan

I think the fact Flanagan elected to put his education ahead of his sports up to now indicates hes a fairly sharp guy. Hopefully that translates onto the field.

LEIN

LEINSTER SKILLS COACH, Richie Murphy, has confirmed today that Brian O’Driscoll will make a long-awaited return from injury this week.

Link

Cant wait for this game now!

.ak

DD9090 wrote: »

Link

Cant wait for this game now!

Also confirms that Reddan will definitely not be involved. So we're looking at either Cooney or McGrath, with a possibility of Boss if he's back.

molloyjh

DD9090 wrote: »

Link

Cant wait for this game now!

Ditto. Really looking forward to it. Roll on Friday...

LEIN

.ak wrote: »

Also confirms that Reddan will definitely not be involved. So we're looking at either Cooney or McGrath, with a possibility of Boss if he's back.

When is the team named?

Its always good to see the younger lads have a shot.

.ak

DD9090 wrote: »

When is the team named?

Its always good to see the younger lads have a shot.

Agreed. Actually Cooney has been on fire recently too. Team should be named tomorrow at lunch time.

jacothelad

irishbucsfan wrote: »

OBrien had the most tackles on the Irish team over the 6 Nations I think, which is impressive given he didn't play a game. (That's not an ESPN stat either). 44 or something I think.

SOB 44 in 4, Ferris 63 in 5.

ED. Just checked ESPN again. Total for FEZ is 63 , not 53. Lydiate Player of the series with 43.

irishbucsfan

jacothelad wrote: »

irishbucsfan wrote: »

OBrien had the most tackles on the Irish team over the 6 Nations I think, which is impressive given he didn't play a game. (That's not an ESPN stat either). 44 or something I think.

SOB 44 in 4, Ferris 53 in 5.

I didn't count Ferris because I don't believe he's a human being.

Tox56

SOB made marginally more tackles per game than Ferris, even more impressive when he missed a total of 45 minutes in the games he did play, whereas Ferris didn't miss a single minute of the 5 games he played.

It's basically 5 games v 3 and a half.

shuffol

Lydiate made 43 in 4 games.

Hagz

jacothelad wrote: »

SOB 44 in 4, Ferris 53 in 5.

Where r u getting those stats? ESPN scrum have different ones.

dougieruggie

Do people still believe ESPN scrum stats? they're hilariously wrong all the time.

jacothelad

Hagz wrote: »

Where r u getting those stats? ESPN scrum have different ones.

ESPN Scrum. Looked at each game stats and added them up - simples.

Hagz

jacothelad wrote: »

ESPN Scrum. Looked at each game stats and added them up - simples.

either you're wrong or I'm wrong but I came out with Ferris at 63 tackles.

irishbucsfan

I didn't use ESPN Scrum stats. The stats I'm looking at have Ferris down as 48 and O'Brien as 44, so ESPN isn't very different (I just missed Ferris for some reason).

jacothelad

ESPN Stats per game

Ferris v. Wales 8. .........SOB 18
Ferris v. France14 .........SOB 13
Ferris v. Italy 12 .........SOB 7
Ferris v. Scotland 18 .....SOB inj
Ferris v. England 11 ......SOB 6

So, Ferris' total is 63 tackles in 5 games.
SOB's total is 44 tackles in 4 games

Hagz

identical average tackle per game though.

Quint2010

Hagz wrote: »

identical average tackle per game though.

Ferris 12.6 per game V SOB 11 per game?..

Hagz

Quint2010 wrote: »

Ferris 12.6 per game V SOB 11 per game?..

275 mins in terms of games is just under 3 and a half games. 44 tackles in 3.5 games averages out to 12.5 tackles a game. 63 tackles in 5 games averages out to 12.6 tackles a game.

CIARAN_BOYLE

I don't know if it was announced before but Rhy Ruddock signed a new two year deal for Leinster 3 weeks ago

Burgo

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

I don't know if it was announced before but Rhy Ruddock signed a new two year deal for Leinster 3 weeks ago

Really, hadn't heard anything about it, was it reported on at all?

Great news all the same.

Neil3030

Ruddock is the same age as Dom Ryan. Mad. I always consider him a year or two older.

CIARAN_BOYLE

Burgo wrote: »

Really, hadn't heard anything about it, was it reported on at all?

Great news all the same.

todays indo has a piece by David Kelly with a few quotes from Ruddock

ruddock wrote:

"I signed a two-year deal about three weeks ago,"

http://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/ruddock-commits-to-leinster-in-bid-to-relaunch-ireland-career-3058067.html

I was surprised since I hadn't heard anything about it before.

Big Nelly

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/ruddock-commits-to-leinster-in-bid-to-relaunch-ireland-career-3058067.html

I was surprised since I hadn't heard anything about it before.

Very surprised there wasnt more about this annoucement, will be a good player for the future. With all the talk of Munster you would have thought it would be splashed all over press

Seph503

Great news to be keeping him. Rhys, Dom and SOB for the next few years, back rows looks in good shape!

Foxtrol

Big Nelly wrote: »

Very surprised there wasnt more about this annoucement, will be a good player for the future. With all the talk of Munster you would have thought it would be splashed all over press

They normally announce contract information in bulk so expect his announcement to be included with several other players some day in the next few weeks.

irishbucsfan

It's a bit crazy the depth leinster have in the back row.

McLaughlin, O'Brien, Jennings, Ryan, Ruddock, Heaslip and Auv'a on senior contracts.

Murphy, Marshall, Gilsenan, Coughlan in the academy and Jack Conan in the sub academy.

Mad strength in depth. Just wish a couple of them were second rows.

tolosenc

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Mad strength in depth. Just wish a couple of them were second rows.

Well, that stuff isn't going to put itself in the water, if you know what I mean...

prospect

Posted in wrong thread, sorry.