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

Sorry that's at least a yellow for Daly as well.

Shoulder to Frawley's chin.

No reason for that not to be a red.

Has to be a red unfortunately!

On a side note someone needs to teach those kids off camera some respect and shut the feck up calling for a player to be sent off!

Busby has already warned the captain's about their sides handbags but they've continued escalating innocuous challenges into pull apart brawls.

He should start penalising players.

McGrath needs a bollicking for passing to the short side when RoL was marked by three men.

Leinster are playing incredibly stupid rugby. Some good stuff which isn't capitalised upon as we throw a silly pass or offload.

We don't need to make the killer play all the time just because Connacht are down to 14. If we keep possession for multiple phases gaps will definitely open up.

The decline in Leinsters standard of performance this season is rather striking. Our passing is far less accurate and in general we aren't as dominant up front either.

Ross Byrne gone off.

Think we're actually going to lose this now. Rookie 10 and 12 for the rest of the game and we have no scrum or lineout.

This is shocking from Leinster, lineout not working, scrum getting demolished by 7 men and back play terrible.

Questions must be asked about what is happening during training. Has the standard of coaching declined or are the players not as receptive to the message?

Either way the result is the same. Standard in performance has fallen off dramatically. Our first choice 23 is still very good, but the players below that aren't impressing bar two or three.

We're missing at least 20 players. You can't expect this not to have an impact.

I wouldn't be panicking in the slightest.

Connacht have been ashamed of themselves lately after some abject performances, they're bound to be up to nineties for this.

We could lose the fixture, but in the sharp end of the season coming up soon we'll be the match of any side left in either competition and that's really all that counts.

This is a Leinster 3rds XXIII and the only people who should be scratching their heads are Connacht for having bought no less than four of them.

I've been saying this for a long time. The standard has dropped significantly.

I think it's the coaching! Leo and Stu have not been great! A few line ups that you know aren't going to get over the finish line! La Rochelle being the obvious one, imo

This side is either not as good as we suppose or, the training isn't up to par.

Lineout is an omnishambles. Can we afford to kick to the corner when we're constantly turned over?

Lads we're dire. Passing and handling is appalling and the set piece hasn't functioned at all.