Match Thread: Castres Olympique vs Leinster Rugby Sunday 12th Jan 12:45pm SS2 RB

sydthebeat

Healy back, that's the win right there

Clegg

Bit worried about this game. Could get ugly.

sydthebeat

I'm more optimistic now than i was an hour ago, crisp clear weather, ball will be moved when able.

I do expect quite a kicking game though.

RuggieBear

will be ugly win or lose

RuggieBear

cagey

former legend

Tony Ward reckons a Bp win for Leinster. ..

RuggieBear

no stream requests

Glass Prison 1214

Good steal by McGrath. Its been a scrappy opening.

Tox56

Ball not breaking our way yet, great turnover McGrath doesn't come to anything

RuggieBear

****.

LeeroyJones

Try Castres

We've been extremely sloppy in possession

Glass Prison 1214

*****

smurfjed

Oops..... try to Castres

Swan Curry

TACKLE HIM

Gidea

Awfull tackling

Tox56

WE've been shocking at the breakdown, turned over in attack and not slowing down at all in defence

Davei141

Crap defending, should have smashed your man and slowed the ball down. Try Castres.

RuggieBear

very lax by d'arcy there
amongst others

efb

Damn. Just got my set up going

Artful_Badger

Shocking defence from Leinster there.

Heroditas

The whole build-up to that try was an effing disgrace from us.

Grandpa Hassan

Swan Curry wrote: »

TACKLE HIM

How many guys did it take in the end!?

B0X

Strolled through the defence there

Fireball07

Nice break... was always a try once it took so many to bring him down. Took a very nice line tbf to him.

Burgo

Heaslip and toner should have put him to ground there.

molloyjh

Great try. They won't be lying down and we haven't looked great as a unit so far. Some good individual bits (McGrath and Fitzy) but that's it. Serious wind and the sun is straight in our eyes though and plenty of time left.

COME ON LEINSTER!

Artful_Badger

Grandpa Hassan wrote: »

How many guys did it take in the end!?

1. Dave Kearney. The rest either fell off or went for the ball.

wicklowwonder

I haven't seen Leinster give away so much ball in a match before as first ten mins of this. Defence was sloppy too. Could be a long afternoon. I was hoping for an early try and kill Castres off.

Zzippy

Very well-taken try but that was a shocking attempt at a tackle by Toner

Tox56

D'arcy has had a bit of a nightmare start

Davei141

Zzippy wrote: »

Very well-taken try but that was a shocking attempt at a tackle by Toner

Picking out Toner when there was about 4 guys with weak efforts is a bit much.

Davei141

Hook the bloody ball!

RuggieBear

killing us in the scrum

Artful_Badger

Davei141 wrote: »

Picking out Toner when there was about 4 guys with weak efforts is a bit much.

3 piss poor tackles from Toner, Heaslip and Gopperth and then a couple guys missed him completely.

molloyjh

HOOK THE F-ING BALL FFS!!!!!

wicklowwonder

Two shocking scums.

sydthebeat

This not hooking ****e has to stop NOW

Tox56

Ross is under enormous pressure

Zzippy

Davei141 wrote: »

Picking out Toner when there was about 4 guys with weak efforts is a bit much.

Apologies for not listing them all, but his stood out as a really bad attempt

Fireball07

Castres have a big set-piece advantage so far.

Philo Beddoe

When is Cronin going to learn to hook the ****ing ball?

molloyjh

Tox56 wrote: »

Ross is under enormous pressure

For all his work in the loose his scrummaging has been really suspect this season. Which is why I thought Moore had a shot at starting.

Artful_Badger

They are going for the ball instead of bringing the man down. All its achieving is conceding ground at a rate of knots.

Fireball07

That was a better scrum.

awec

Can I ask anyone who is posting updates in here to include the score when it changes.

molloyjh

Philo Beddoe wrote: »

When is Cronin going to learn to hook the ****ing ball?

It's a tactic to ensure we don't lose a man on our own out in from what I can tell. Not a great one though!

Individual breaks not getting supported again. How often has that happened this season!?

Artful_Badger

Excellent by Reddan in the break and managing to get the ball back.

efb

10 is tasty

RuggieBear

**** taht. in from the side nige

molloyjh

SUPPORT SUPPORT SU-FING-PORT!!!!!!!!!