Leinster v Saracens

A-Train

AbusesToilets wrote: »

Not a hope of a straight scrum

Ref has made his decision on the scrums.

Bridge93

How a prop hasn’t been binned is beyond me

AbusesToilets

This game is infuriating to watch. Saracens crooked as **** all match and Gauzere just letting them away with it.

Leinster ****ed themselves out of this game

TCM

pc7 wrote:

Fook

Great.

Faugheen

High from Itoje on Ringrose again!

fitz

Itoje around Ringrose neck: "Play on"

pc7

Oh come on Leinster, ballix.

Bridge93

Scrum ultimately the winning and losing

Clegg

That's that.

Great effort in the second half, but Saracens miles the better side. Killed us in the first half.

Squidgy Black

fitz wrote: »

Itoje around Ringrose neck: "Play on"

Said it was on the ball.

razorblunt

Seatbelt by Itoje - not the Ringrose tackle , the one before that.

pc7

fitz wrote: »

Itoje around Ringrose neck: "Play on"

How he’s still on the pitch is a mystery, he gets away with murder.

Beechwoodspark

Ah ffs

ironingbored

TCM wrote: »

Nothing wrong with ref.

Seriously?
Missed offsides
Crooked throws missed.
In from the side at mauls.
Wrong ruck calls

fitz

Squidgy Black wrote: »

Said it was on the ball.

He can say what he wants, doesn't mean it's not a load of rubbish.

This is it

Game over.

Larbre34

Unbelievable the scum shots they've got away with.

However, its gone now. Left ourselves too much to do in the first 25. Cant be doing what we did, loosing all the head to heads.

Bridge93

Another scrum penalty. Whoever is coaching that must be very close to a p45

KH25

Constant high tackles from Itoje ignored all day. The last one on Ringrose in particular. Disgraceful reffing.

Clegg

JGP probably didn't need to force that pass. But without him we wouldn't have scored our second try. Swings and roundabouts.

A-Train

Itoje gets away with murder.

pc7

Gutted, scrum killed us, some great play in second half, but too late. 6N Ireland v England will be the same to watch. Maybe Leavy will be back and a bit of heft to help.

yerrahbah

Does anyone actually believe Leinster would have won with a different ref?

ScrubsfanChris

lawrencesummers

A fair ref and the result would have been very different.
A competent organizing committee and Sarries wouldn’t even be in the competition.

razorblunt

pc7 wrote: »

Gutted, scrum killed us, some great play in second half, but too late. 6N Ireland v England will be the same to watch. Maybe Leavy will be back and a bit of heft to help.

Christ, the lad destroyed his knee over a year ago let’s not throw him into an international game just yet.

Squidgy Black

Hell of an effort to get even close after the first half in fairness, but just couldn't claw it back after the dismal showing for the first 40 minutes.

Sarries just outplayed us across the park. Their pack completely dominated, and they played the ref well as they always do.

sydthebeat

Ends in farce

thecomedian

yerrahbah wrote: »

Does anyone actually believe Leinster would have won with a different ref?

No.
They were stronger today.

This is it

Great fight in the second half but the damage was done in the first. Scrum was particularly bad, same with our maul. Disappointing.

Buer

Stop pissing and moaning about the ref. He's not the reason the game was lost or even close to it.

Beechwoodspark

yerrahbah wrote: »

Does anyone actually believe Leinster would have won with a different ref?

No. 1st half did for us.

pc7

razorblunt wrote: »

Christ, the lad destroyed his knee over a year ago let’s not throw him into an international game just yet.

Hence the ‘Maybe’ need a bit of hope after that sh1t show

TCM

TCM wrote: »

Great.

Took all of 10 seconds to figure out what kind of fan you are

thomond2006

7/8 scrum penalties means it's a massive uphill task from there. Leinster deserve credit for making a game of it as they were completely demolished in the first half.

Dwarf.Shortage

yerrahbah wrote: »

Does anyone actually believe Leinster would have won with a different ref?

The scrum cost us the game not the referee.

God I hate that shower of sneering, cheating, arrogant c**ts.

piplip87

lawrencesummers wrote: »

A fair ref and the result would have been very different.
A competent organizing committee and Sarries wouldn’t even be in the competition.

Look the ref was awful but it doesn't take away from the ****show the first half was for Leinster.

ScrubsfanChris

KH25 wrote: »

Constant high tackles from Itoje ignored all day. The last one on Ringrose in particular. Disgraceful reffing.

Said it was on the ball and it was.



Think some need to calm down a bit before posting again

Ref had too much of a sway on that game and I don't buy Leinsters scrum falling apart like that legally.

Leinster not good enough at the breakdown, too many unforced mistakes and couldn't break Saracena down. We lacked composure but Saracens really had our number and looked like they were ready for anything we threw at them.

Six months of prep for one game will do that.

AbusesToilets

Pathetic from Leinster, embarrassed at home

Vinnie222

thomond2006 wrote: »

7/8 scrum penalties means it's a massive uphill task from there. Leinster deserve credit for making a game of it as they were completely demolished in the first half.

The scum won it for them.

This is it

yerrahbah wrote: »

Does anyone actually believe Leinster would have won with a different ref?

Maybe but that's not to say Leinster deserved to win. Sarries by far the better team in every department and utterly dominant in the scrum

fitz

yerrahbah wrote: »

Does anyone actually believe Leinster would have won with a different ref?

Yes.
Yellow card for the Sexton high hit, policing of the offside line, and things would have looked very different imo.

Exclamation Marc

The referee couldn't even make a call on the Sexton challenge being a foul despite it being obvious to the world it was a foul.

Ultimately the loss is Leinsters fault and shortcoming but the referee has enormously exasperated it.

The amount of fouls or offside he and his team missed was too high also.

As I said though, Leinster can only blame themselves but the referee made the mountain a bit higher.

DellyBelly

Didn't expect that result. That's not a great saracens team but some performance by them

A-Train

Leinster only themselves to blame, the ref had a factor in it no doubt and I just can’t get over how Itoje gets away with so much in every game.

molloyjh

We gave too much away too easily in the first 20-25 mins. Gave them momentum and daylight on the board. They were superb in the first 40 and did to us what we've been doing to everyone else.

At least we made a game of it in the second half. But sloppiness killed us in the final quarter. And the scrum. Dear Lord the scrum. That said, they seemed to be allowed bore in at 90 degrees at will in the scrum and def bought a few penalties that way. We just couldn't deal with it. And that's on us.

sydthebeat

Hell of a lot of questions for robyn mcbride after this

Exclamation Marc

A-Train wrote: »

Leinster only themselves time blame, the ref had a factor in it no doubt and I just can’t get over how Itoje gets away with so much in every game.

Sure how long was Farrell getting away with it til his luck ran out.

razorblunt

lawrencesummers wrote: »

A fair ref and the result would have been very different.
A competent organizing committee and Sarries wouldn’t even be in the competition.

There was a lot of chest beating here and sniggering at Munster fans for complaining about the ref over the two losses.

I commented at the time that Leinster fans have forgotten what it’s like to lose and the associated referee critiquing that comes with it. Yet here we are.


Hard luck to the Leinster fans, caught in a bit of an ambush todays. Saracens out fought them. Well done Saracens, hopefully they get caught in the semis.