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

Awarding the game to Montpellier was the right call at the time and even more correct in hindsight. Move on lads.

The obvious conclusion from the data at hand was that one team had Covid contained and the other didn’t. That was clear as day at the time and has only become more obvious since. I have no idea how you can possibly still be pushing the notion that the two teams were in the same boat. They weren’t. Every single piece of evidence tells us that. The EPCR came to a conclusion that was proven to be the correct one. They got this right, much and all as I wish it wasn’t the case.

Leavy is having a bollocks of a time with injury! Poor fecker, it's hard to see him put together enough performances to warrant any discussion to make the international extended squad.

I think Leinster are in a bad position. No matches in weeks and the squad disrupted by covid. It's going to be a slog to get momentum. The 6nations adds to the disruption, if it goes ahead.

I don't think that matters. There are only so many open weeks left in the season and we're likely to see more postponed games so I think they're going end up cancelling some games. If and when that arises, Munster should receive the victory.

Sorry now, but it wasn't.

It became not the right call when the other teams in that Anglo-French mess all got their postponements and it has been doubled down on by them all getting 2 points today, and leaving Leinster with a mountain to climb with whatever truncated format is arrived at. The operative word being truncated, because there will be less games to make up the gap, even if we get all five pointers.

Even if our game this weekend is cancelled over Covid in Montpellier, that leaves us at net zero points for two major games.

When the EPCR broke their own protocols by allowing first postponements and now 0-0 results and then held Leinster and others to the 28-0 agreement, they were making it up as it goes along and Leinster were among those quite simply f**ked over as collateral damage.

All anyone asks is fairness. When fairness gets binned as incidental, why should anyone just move on.

Leinster should withdraw from this year's competition and encourage others similarly screwed over to do the same.

Leinster should definitely withdraw and throw away a lot of money in the process. That'll teach them.

For goodness sake.

Well this post is definitely a million miles off objective.

Simply put, the games that were postponed could have been played but for travel restrictions that were entirely external factors.

Leinsters game could not be played because of an uncontrolled outbreak within the Leinster camp, ie a very much internal factor.

Scarlets are the ones who should feel aggrieved here. We shouldn’t. We were unlucky in that had our game been 24 hours later or the travel restrictions put in place 24 hours earlier the EPCR probably wouldn’t have made the decision and we’d have been awarded a draw too. As it happens they reviewed the evidence and made a decision prior to all the travel restrictions stuff. They couldn’t well ignore that after the fact.

I'd hate to read your reaction in a situation where Leinster actually got screwed over.

They manage to do it most weeks, whether in solidarity with anyone or not I can't say.

This is it. Everyone is doing their best in the uncertainty of covid. Circumstances changed pretty quickly and although it certainly didn't suit Leinster, there was no conspiracy to shaft them. Failing to move on is childish at this stage. Leinster will continue to pursue the alternative arrangements but they'll drop it in a few weeks. There's absolutely no reason to think the appeal will have any impact on anything.

It's about respect.

There are things that wouldn't happen to a Man United or a Real Madrid or to Brazil or the All Blacks.

When you're aristocracy, you get respect, or if you don't, you take it anyway. That's what Leinster are. There's the Crusaders, Stade Toulousain, Western Province and there's Leinster. That's the top table at the feast.

There's little point in being the Billy Big Balls if you don't swing them occasionally and make them work for you.

Let's see once this tournament shakes out, how magnanimous my fellow Leinster posters are feeling if this Montpellier decision is the difference between reaching the knock-outs and not, between getting a home country advantage and not. And having to watch some bunch of journeymen at a Sale Sharks or a Castres progress due to nothing more than an accident of birth.

I'm sorry now lads, but f**k that shyte. And if you don't care enough, maybe you need to be asking yourself why.

Four times European champions is no delusion. Thats actually being royalty.

Incidentally, this forum is not reflective of the anger on other media. All the stoic magnanimity might feel smugly superior over coffee and brandy, but it doesn't reflect the disgust that's out there. A pretty corrosive disgust.

Royalty? Hard to know if you're being serious, your majesty. I'll need another coffee and a brandy to reflect on the situation with stoicism.

-Christopher Urios, Head Coach, Union Bordeaux-Bègles

Hard to argue with Monsieur. Looks like nobody is very happy with this inequitable shambles.

Eh, no, not the noun, the verb.

A petition to a civil Court or Tribunal. You know when you're the party bringing the case, aka the......petitioner

Awkward.