Leinster Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread XII (The Byrne Supremacy)

Something fishy in this. Something isn’t stacking up, I doubt this is the end of it somehow.

But it's a fair bet that a lot of the players and staff who would have travelled to France have been in close contact with the guys who tested positive most recently.

There are definitely players who were pictured training on Tuesday who I would have expected to be picked but were not.

If I'm a close contact on a Tuesday and test negative on a Wednesday, that is no guarantee that I won't test positive on a Friday.

We don't have the facts, the EPCR do.

It's very unfortunate but I doubt there's a major injustice here

Seems fair enough, if a bad outcome for Leinster. The club had positive tests this week and though they weren’t in the 23 and they’ve been tested regularly you can still return a positive result several days after exposure. Rather this than some of them get a positive in France on Saturday and Leinster find themselves in a situation like Munster in SA or the whole set up being compromised. The competition is up in the air now as things aren’t likely to be better come January and February.

This is a farce

That should be a stonewall case for awarding the match to Leinster so. If the host Country throws a spanner in the works, their team suffers, end of.

So f***ing what? We have a matchday squad tested up the wazoo that aren't infected.

How many of Munster's senior squad were infected or isolating last week when they sent the Ennis RFC Under-11s to fulfill the fixture???

It is simply not a valid reason to a) cancel the game and b) award the walkover to Montpellier.

EPCR making it up as they go along here and Leinster and the IRFU should not accept it.

To be fair the nature of munsters isssues meant their players where in no contact with the affected players at all.

Is this the first time the decision was made in this manner?

All seems very odd given how Wasps made wholesale changes on the morning of a match.

I've a feeling that all the French games will be cancelled and points awarded equally except for Leinster because of this decision.

You couldn't even begin to defend that as an equitable outcome.

If all French games are called off due to French restrictions, then you either award the games to the away sides, or split the points with the away sides at worst, including Leinster.

And the Munster situation IS comparable if you want it to be. I think Leinster have probably just been a bit too honest for their own good here

Can understand how munster were different. But wasps was worse than this. Positive cases in match day squad on day of match

If it becomes a factor in all games scheduled to be held on French soil this weekend, then it becomes a factor in the Leinster decision.

Leinster cannot lie down and allow themselves be collateral damage for this.

This need not be accepted as a decision and it should not be, because if another scenario arises later in the group stages where we actually, properly, cannot fulfill a fixture, and have to take another 0-28, then our tournament is over, for the loss of millions.

Time for Leinster to play the big dog European aristocrat card here and turn over a few tables. Why wouldn't they?

Munster had a clean squad tested and ready to travel and fulfill the game.

Leinster have a clean squad tested and ready to travel and fulfill the game.

What I mean is, Leinster should not have declared any further positive cases from within the cohort that were already isolating, until after the weekend. It was too risky that this crap would be pulled.