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Leinster Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread X: [****]

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    #4292
    redmca2
    Registered Users Posts: 287 ✭✭redmca2


    Sh*t I meant Frawley


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    #4293
    Dubinusa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Dubinusa


    VDF and leavy should be untouchable. They are the best 2 open sides in Ireland at the moment imo.
    SOB is older and his career is winding down.
    Nucifora can go and play openside for Munster if he wants and then he can fcuk off.
    Conners will probably leave as he's way down the pecking order.
    It boils my arse to think of the fortunes of the other provinces may be forced by administrative transfers.
    I hope Lancaster stays.. He has been vital to Leinster and the young lads.
    Bath will throw everything they have at him and it may be enough.


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    #4294
    Burkie1203
    Registered Users Posts: 11,654 ✭✭✭✭Burkie1203


    Bath currently playing in the rain at home. Pitch isn't great.


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    #4295
    Stout Warrior
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 224 ✭✭Stout Warrior


    irishbucsfan wrote: »
    Far more consistent than Sexton at his age, anyway. Was a major problem with Sexton when he was younger until he started working with elite coaches. I’m sure Byrne will get the same opportunity now.

    It raises the question of whether an elite player is born or made. Personally I think it comes from the player himself but coaching can improve his play/kicking. We’ll see if Byrne can get to that level but I have concerns about the mental side of his kicking game presently


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    #4296
    cameramonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    Burkie1203 wrote: »
    Bath currently playing in the rain at home. Pitch isn't great.


    its currently a high scoring 0-0 after 42 mins.


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    #4297
    hogandrew
    Registered Users Posts: 441 ✭✭hogandrew


    cameramonkey wrote: »
    its currently a high scoring 0-0 after 42 mins.

    They are gone 7-0 down now. They have so many players needlessly hitting rucks after they've lost the ball. They are after leaving big gaps around the fringes a number of times now


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    #4298
    Clegg
    Registered Users Posts: 17,169 ✭✭✭✭Clegg


    Nearly 60 minutes gone and a close to full strength Bath have yet to score against the bottom side in the Premiership. And Bath are at home.

    Leinster should.be looking for the bonus.


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    #4299
    Burkie1203
    Registered Users Posts: 11,654 ✭✭✭✭Burkie1203


    Clegg wrote: »
    Nearly 60 minutes gone and a close to full strength Bath have yet to score against the bottom side in the Premiership. And Bath are at home.

    Leinster should.be looking for the bonus.

    Bath made 65 tackles and missed 28 after 66 min. 1 in 3 tackles attempts missed is criminal


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    #4300
    Interested Observer
    Registered Users Posts: 13,105 ✭✭✭✭Interested Observer


    Clegg wrote: »
    Nearly 60 minutes gone and a close to full strength Bath have yet to score against the bottom side in the Premiership. And Bath are at home.

    Leinster should.be looking for the bonus.

    Been watching the second half, the weather is terrible but Bath are even worse. The Leinster pack should eat them alive on this showing.

    Nice try there though.


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    #4301
    stephen_n
    Registered Users Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    jacothelad wrote: »
    You've misspelt Ulster.......

    You already have Timoney and Murphy, do you want the entire backrow?


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    #4302
    Wegians89
    Registered Users Posts: 3,450 ✭✭✭Wegians89


    stephen_n wrote: »
    You already have Timoney and Murphy, do you want the entire backrow?

    Was Greg Jones not Leinster?


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    #4303
    jacothelad
    Registered Users Posts: 5,931 ✭✭✭jacothelad


    redmca2 wrote: »
    On his recent performances I think that Crawley is gradually becoming a realistic candidate for supplanting Byrne as back up 10 to Sexton.


    Creepy post........:D


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    #4304
    jacothelad
    Registered Users Posts: 5,931 ✭✭✭jacothelad


    stephen_n wrote: »
    You already have Timoney and Murphy, do you want the entire backrow?


    Yep.....and the Byrne brothers........:D


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    #4305
    antietam1
    Registered Users Posts: 359 ✭✭antietam1


    jacothelad wrote: »
    Yep.....and the Byrne brothers........:D
    That will be seven and sixpence please.


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    #4306
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,460 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Squidgy Black wrote: »
    It's arguably the same situation as the Carbery ordeal, if not more bscklogged. We have 3 senior opensides in VdF, SOB and Leavy, Penny coming storming through, Max Kearney is sub-academy but he's a really highly rated player from schools so could be in the academy next year.

    It'd be a huge loss, but it's a real problem we're going to have over the next couple years.

    Give them SOB?


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    #4307
    THFC198
    Registered Users Posts: 159 ✭✭THFC198


    Possible 23 for the Bath game next weekend? Who is definetly ruled out? I can think of SOB, Henshaw, Tomane, McCarthy with Leavy, Conan and O’Loughlin doubts? Missing any? (Or made mistakes)


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    Burkie1203
    Registered Users Posts: 11,654 ✭✭✭✭Burkie1203


    THFC198 wrote: »
    Possible 23 for the Bath game next weekend? Who is definetly ruled out? I can think of SOB, Henshaw, Tomane, McCarthy with Leavy, Conan and O’Loughlin doubts? Missing any? (Or made mistakes)

    Healy Cronin Furlong Ryan Toner Fardy VDF Ruddock

    McGrath, Sexton, Lowe, COB, Ringrose, Byrne, Kearney

    Bench McGrath, Tracy, Porter, Molony, Leavy/Doris, McCarthy/O'Sullivan, Byrne, Larmour/DK


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    #4309
    jacothelad
    Registered Users Posts: 5,931 ✭✭✭jacothelad


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Give them SOB?


    He's not injured often enough to be an Ulster signing..


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    #4310
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,958 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    Wegians89 wrote: »
    Saw somewhere online that Munster were trying to get a 7 from Leinster and that vdfs contract is up in the summer. I don’t see the need for a 7 down there tbh and not sure what vdfs contract status is


    It will be a 7 next year, the year after it will be an 8, then year after, sorry they already have a 9 and 10.....in a few seasons you might have Munster team full of exLeinster and foreign players and not a single player from Munster


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    #4311
    Interested Observer
    Registered Users Posts: 13,105 ✭✭✭✭Interested Observer


    If VdF goes south then I give up. We might as well forget the notion of provinces.

    What the **** would Munster be doing trying to sign a 7 anyway when they have TOD, Oliver and Cloete on the books already?


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    #4312
    Burkie1203
    Registered Users Posts: 11,654 ✭✭✭✭Burkie1203


    Interested Observer wrote: »
    If VdF goes south then I give up. We might as well forget the notion of provinces.

    What the **** would Munster be doing trying to sign a 7 anyway when they have TOD, Oliver and Cloete on the books already?

    Johnston, Bleyendaal, Keatley, Hanrahan

    Signed Carbery.


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    #4313
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,958 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    Interested Observer wrote: »
    If VdF goes south then I give up. We might as well forget the notion of provinces.

    What the **** would Munster be doing trying to sign a 7 anyway when they have TOD, Oliver and Cloete on the books already?


    Cronin, Murray, Hart, Williams



    Sign Mathewson


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    #4314
    Clegg
    Registered Users Posts: 17,169 ✭✭✭✭Clegg


    Interested Observer wrote: »
    If VdF goes south then I give up. We might as well forget the notion of provinces.

    What the **** would Munster be doing trying to sign a 7 anyway when they have TOD, Oliver and Cloete on the books already?
    VdF is better than all of them.

    Doubt we'll lose him though.


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    #4315
    troyzer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,200 ✭✭✭troyzer


    I don't know if anyone has been following the Premiership forum but it's quite possible that all of the Scottish, English and Welsh teams will have to forfeit all of their European games after Brexit day.

    Which would mean it's only really the Irish and French teams competing for the title.


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    #4316
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,958 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    troyzer wrote: »
    I don't know if anyone has been following the Premiership forum but it's quite possible that all of the Scottish, English and Welsh teams will have to forfeit all of their European games after Brexit day.

    Which would mean it's only really the Irish and French teams competing for the title.




    How come?


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    #4317
    Burkie1203
    Registered Users Posts: 11,654 ✭✭✭✭Burkie1203


    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    How come?

    The UK only passport holder players wouldn't be classed as European?


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    #4318
    troyzer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,200 ✭✭✭troyzer


    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    troyzer wrote: »
    I don't know if anyone has been following the Premiership forum but it's quite possible that all of the Scottish, English and Welsh teams will have to forfeit all of their European games after Brexit day.

    Which would mean it's only really the Irish and French teams competing for the title.




    How come?

    It's all in here in great detail:

    https://www.rugbypass.com/news/the-huge-implications-for-english-rugby-posed-by-brexit-that-no-one-is-talking-about-it/

    But basically, EPCR rules mean you're only allowed to have two non EU/Kolpak players. British players will no longer be EU players after Brexit meaning that British teams will only be allowed to field a maximum of two British/Australian/Argentine or Kiwi players.

    No British team is capable of fielding a team made up of 21 French/Irish/Italian or Kolpak players so they'll have to forfeit their matches.


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    #4319
    salmocab
    Registered Users Posts: 11,358 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    Burkie1203 wrote: »
    The UK only passport holder players wouldn't be classed as European?

    That won’t affect the rules of the competition only working laws. I’d not be too worried about it.


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    #4320
    stephen_n
    Registered Users Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    jacothelad wrote: »
    Yep.....and the Byrne brothers........:D

    Ross and Harry, is one 10 not enough?


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    troyzer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,200 ✭✭✭troyzer


    salmocab wrote: »
    Burkie1203 wrote: »
    The UK only passport holder players wouldn't be classed as European?

    That won’t affect the rules of the competition only working laws. I’d not be too worried about it.

    We'd be able to answer it very quickly if anyone can find an example of a French team fielding more than two Georgians in a European game. Because that's the bracket Britain would be in.


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