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

Burkie1203

Gauzerre is the ref for Saturday. He reffed the Exeter game last year in Aviva

durthacht

I just watched a bit of American Football where the commentators were going nuts because a team passed the ball to each other three times in a move. They really should watch Leinster as that stuff happens all the time.

Burkie1203

Indo

https://m.independent.ie/sport/rugby/leinster-rugby/sexton-signs-new-irfu-deal-as-reid-weighs-up-switch-to-leicester-37617916.html

Noel Reid to Leicester
Tom Daly to Connacht on loan

troyzer

Burkie1203 wrote: »

Indo

https://m.independent.ie/sport/rugby/leinster-rugby/sexton-signs-new-irfu-deal-as-reid-weighs-up-switch-to-leicester-37617916.html

Noel Reid to Leicester
Tom Daly to Connacht on loan

For **** sake.

This must be how the Kiwis and South Africans feel all the time.

Buer

It's the right move for both of them. It's essential we continue to develop the likes of COB and Frawley now this season though to the point where they are solid Pro14 starters.

troyzer

Buer wrote: »

It's the right move for both of them. It's essential we continue to develop the likes of COB and Frawley now this season though to the point where they are solid Pro14 starters.

It's the right move for Daly I suppose. He might be getting cut anyway.

But Reid? He's getting European time now.

Fair point on COB and Frawley though. I imagine Frawley will be a fixture in midfield going forward and even he still has to break through Henshaw.

salmocab

Reid is a very useful squad player but he’s not going to go any further with Leinster best of luck to him.
Daly hasn’t had a rub of the green at all and this could be a good move.

Buer

troyzer wrote: »

But Reid? He's getting European time now.

He's getting Europeam time because Henshaw is out and possibly because Tomane is unavailable too. He's 28 and started about 4 or 5 European matches ever.

I'd imagine we're not offering him massive money either. He needed to look after his own interests.

Squidgy Black

troyzer wrote: »

It's the right move for Daly I suppose. He might be getting cut anyway.

But Reid? He's getting European time now.

Fair point on COB and Frawley though. I imagine Frawley will be a fixture in midfield going forward and even he still has to break through Henshaw.

Only because we're riddled with injuries in the centre. I would say he's probably looking over his shoulder at the young lads rushing through and saying maybe now is the time to try play somewhere else.

troyzer

Buer wrote: »

He's getting Europeam time because Henshaw is out and possibly because Tomane is unavailable too. He's 28 and started about 4 or 5 European matches ever.

I'd imagine we're not offering him massive money either. He needed to look after his own interests.

Squidgy Black wrote: »

Only because we're riddled with injuries in the centre. I would say he's probably looking over his shoulder at the young lads rushing through and saying maybe now is the time to try play somewhere else.

Hard to argue with those points, it's the best thing for him.

Hopefully COB et al are ready to be thrown into high pressure games by the end of the season.

stephen_n

Strange move for Daly, thought Centre was the one position Connacht were well stocked in. Though it seems unlikely he’s going to get much gametime with us. Hopefully Leicester don’t break Reid the same way they did with Dippy.

Granny15

Yeah I think it's a step back for Leceister to be having a centre of Reids size along side Tuilagi however they might need a playmaker in the centre. Having said all that I think Jimmy O'Brien is the one to be worried about more for the incumbents in the centre rather than Conor O'Brien. I don't see Geordan Murphy giving Reid a huge amount of game time and he might struggle in the ultra physical premiership in England.

arsebiscuits1

Burkie1203 wrote: »

Gauzerre is the ref for Saturday. He reffed the Exeter game last year in Aviva

I hope he's learnt his offside rule since then.

Exeters rush D was unbelievable last year but there were numerous occasions they were a good bit offside.

Bath have a pretty good rush D but probably aren't as hard to break down.

But Pascal didn't send Healy off either when he really should have. So he has that going for him

errlloyd

Do Leicster still have Kyle Eastmonde, they'd be a similar mould.

baaba maal

Shefwedfan wrote: »

POM on the wing :eek::eek::eek:

POM as the starting wing, Marmion to cover the back three from the bench.

troyzer

Who's going to the Wasps game then?

And what block are we getting tickets in? The email says cat 3 tickets but there are 3 different blocks of cat 3.

stephen_n

Booked block 17, 23 seemed right in the corner and didn’t see a third.

troyzer

stephen_n wrote: »

Booked block 17, 23 seemed right in the corner and didn’t see a third.

24 was another option, right in the corner.

I was thinking of booking 17 as well.

AdamD

errlloyd wrote: »

Do Leicster still have Kyle Eastmonde, they'd be a similar mould.

Yeah, was sent off a few weeks ago, hes still a complete liability.

errlloyd

troyzer wrote: »

24 was another option, right in the corner.

I was thinking of booking 17 as well.

Where are you seeing these tickets. I still can't find any.

troyzer

errlloyd wrote: »

Where are you seeing these tickets. I still can't find any.

Are you able to log in here?

errlloyd

troyzer wrote: »

Are you able to log in here?

Yes. And I just see Blue Room, Three game pack and something else.

troyzer

errlloyd wrote: »

Yes. And I just see Blue Room, Three game pack and something else.

Weird.

I'm able to see Wasps as well.

troyzer

Log in first and then try this.

stephen_n

errlloyd wrote: »

Where are you seeing these tickets. I still can't find any.

Did you not get an email with a login? That should take you straight in through your TM account.

troyzer

I'm looking at this.

errlloyd

I have the exact same page, without the Wasps tickets.

Ah wait, is this an OLSC thing, because that I have not got. So I don't have the special offer tickets.

stephen_n

errlloyd wrote: »

I have the exact same page, without the Wasps tickets.

Probably a stupid question but are you a STH?

errlloyd

stephen_n wrote: »

Probably a stupid question but are you a STH?

Not this year, which totally explains all of these issues hahaha.

I'll probably just wait to buy from the Wasps allocation anyway, they probably won't have a ticketmaster charge.

troyzer

Wasps tickets are already up.

They even have them in the same block.

My ticket is row MM, seat 15 if that's anything to go by when looking at where the allocation is.