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

Heymans

troyzer wrote: »

Porter was getting battered in the scrum during his England and Scotland appearances. He's brutal again today.

I'm starting to really worry about his scrummaging.

I've been saying it since he came on the scene. In pressure situations his scrummaging technique tends to buckle.

On another note what kind of defence was that from Daly and Kearney for their third try. A real disgrace

leakyboots

Games like this are good for Porter, all part of the rite of passage for a prop to get his arse handed to him. The thing is to learn and improve from it. Still only 23… Archer only peaked when he was nearly 30 into a competent scrummager

Heymans

leakyboots wrote: »

Games like this are good for Porter, all part of the rite of passage for a prop to get his arse handed to him. The thing is to learn and improve from it. Still only 23… Archer only peaked when he was nearly 30 into a competent scrummager

Why not get Abdeladze in there if he gets his handed to him. Good scrummager and carrier from what I've seen of him

The Pheasant2

Liam Toland's pronunciation Joe "Shmith" is somewhat irritating, up there with Quinlan's "Vunipolo"

troyzer

Don't get me wrong. We have to persist with Porter. But he's not kicking on as much as I'd like.

molloyjh

Offside is onside.

Buer

That's a poor call from referee on the turnover on Fardy. Tackler was standing about a metre offside at the ruck.

troyzer

Referee constantly bollocking Zebre and telling them to speed up.

Did he leave the immersion on or something?

Clegg

Leinster haven't really improved this half.

troyzer

Nice try. Bonus point in the bag.

troyzer

Annoying.

molloyjh

How does he spot that and not the Zebre offside!?

Buer

Hard luck. Great spot. You could see Zebre didn't want to know after Daly kicked that.

A-Train

Hard luck Barry Daly, would have been a great score

antietam1

That's the best Leinster tackle for a long time by O'Brien.

Buer

JGP has not been at the races today. Passing is as poor as I've seen from him for some time.

molloyjh

So dumb from Zebre. They really are bad. Which doesn’t say much for how we’re doing.

molloyjh

And another dumb penalty. Another line out maul please.

troyzer

I thought Byrne was going for the drop there.

Thrashssacre

Not a bad attendance for this game all the same considering zebre really have nothing to play for and most fan we're probably expecting a hiding

antietam1

JGP had enough of the lazy runners.

A-Train

Fardy with the bonus point score.

salmocab

Fardy with the least effort of touching down I’ve ever seen

Clegg

Ross Byrne developing a dynamic carrying game is a rather unexpected development.

troyzer

Leinster getting away with one clothes line after another. Bizarre

Exclamation Marc

Irrespective of the crap feed from the Italian broadcaster, its nice to actually get to see these games as some used to be twitter updates only.

baas baa

Another assist for Jamison skip pass.

Clegg

That was a fantastic cover tackle by JGP.

Buer

JGP with a great covering tackle. Byrne came in off the man and left him alone.

stephen_n

Buer wrote: »

JGP with a great covering tackle. Byrne came in off the man and left him alone.

I think in fairness to Byrne he seemed to get the call from JGP to go in.