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

kmart6

sydthebeat wrote: »

Jesus christ.... Luke Fitz doing his utmost to blame Joe tomane for that maul try.

Ridiculous

Was wondering when they scored it would he go there at HT since Tomane was in the vicinity.

sydthebeat

Clegg wrote: »

Owens missed a good poach from Porter, I think. Other than that I have no real complaints. We've been pretty poor. Very disappointed in Luke McGrath's performance.

I think owens call there was fair
I think it was fardy who loitered on the wrong side after a tackle which didn't allow any cleaner in on Porter.

kmart6

sydthebeat wrote: »

I think owens call there was fair
I think it was fardy who loitered on the wrong side after a tackle which didn't allow any cleaner in on Porter.

Was it not Dunne?

Buer

Better from McGrath. Clearly irked by Owens' call on the blocked pass.

Should be a good final 30mins now.

Going to TMO....

sydthebeat

kmart6 wrote: »

Was it not Dunne?

Yeah coulda been I didnt take heed

Burkie1203

The missed tackles are awful

Buer

A brilliant try from Benetton. The manner in which they controlled the rucks and went through phases was like Leinster on form.

sydthebeat

Not much luke McGrath can do against a lock barging over

kmart6

sydthebeat wrote: »

Not much luke McGrath can do against a lock barging over

Tomane's fault!

razorblunt

Poor tackles from the back rows.

Toland talks some amount of bollòx, 5 mins prior he was saying how Leinster can be confident of always scoring in their 22 and not conceding in their own due to their defensive strength.


5 mins later, treviso score handily and Toland points out what Leinster need to work on.

Burkie1203

Ffs Lowe

kmart6

Ah Lowe FFS, sloppy!

Squidgy Black

Right in front of Owens as well. Brain-dead.

Buer

Try aside, Lowe doesn't get into our first choice team right now. He hasn't had a huge amount of rugby this year so far but, in any of his appearances, he has looked a far cry from the guy who was playing in 2018.

Faugheen

Luke Fitzgerald wrote: »

Ffs Tomane

Taking bets on the above

Squidgy Black

Treviso's defensive line has been impressive, every time Frawley has gotten the ball there's been someone right up in his face ever since he came on.

kmart6

Well that could be a big reversal.

Buer

TMO called attention to that on the basis of reckless contact to the head i.e. red card territory.

kmart6

kmart6 wrote: »

Well that could be a big reversal.

That was all a bit unclear.

kmart6

Tomane made that try if it stands with his run!

Buer

Could have driven a bus through that gap. Was annoyed they pulled it from the maul but that's top notch hands from COB.

A-Train

Get in great try.

thegreycity

Watching this in the pub. Did we just score a try out of what should have been a red card against us?

Buer

thegreycity wrote: »

Watching this in the pub. Did we just score a try out of what should have been a red card against us?

Letter of the law, yes.

kmart6

thegreycity wrote: »

Watching this in the pub. Did we just score a try out of what should have been a red card against us?

Buer wrote: »

Letter of the law, yes.

Treviso can be rightly annoyed.

Squidgy Black

Still struggling to understand Owens logic behind reversing that to be a penalty against Treviso, I'd imagine once they watch it back they'll feel hard done by.

Buer

Jack Dunne has had a really, really good showing.

MaybeMaybe

So you have reckless contact to the head my McFadden. Owens even says as much. At some point in the not too recent past that would have been red.

Buer

Squidgy Black wrote: »

Still struggling to understand Owens logic behind reversing that to be a penalty against Treviso, I'd imagine once they watch it back they'll feel hard done by.

Retaliation takes precedence.

The question is whether the incident was deserving of a card which, going on this season's directive, it was.

dregin

Replacing your openside with a loose head for a 5m scrum when you're 7 points up with 5 minutes to go is utter lunacy. Penny looked grand.