Match thread Mexicans v Wildlings (Leinster v Ulster) Kick off 5.30pm 1/4/23

Dangerous dive in there by some Wilding, near knocked Porter out with a flying knee.

**** off Pearce ya useless **** and do your ****ing job.

Great try.

But VDF off injured. Fook

Moore on for Burns.

Lowry at 10 and Moore at 15??

I hope VDF being subbed is just percautionary.

Huuuuge Leinster scrum

Stockdale filling in the Hume rile to coont it up afterwards

That was the second time that there was knock on advantage called back after a kick.

99% of the time of referees call advantage over after a kick. Or am I wrong?

James Ryan or Ryan Baird are motm for me.

Both contributed so many pivotal moments whether at the defensive lineout or in carries in attack.

I thought Leinster’s pack were great and kicking game in general was excellent.

I thought the call against Hume was absolute **** horseshit. In general Pearse’s proclivity to award the attacking team in the red zone no matter what did not help us as the underdog. In that case, he wasn’t the tackler… why does he have to release? Bullshit call. Completely killed the game for us realistically.

Ulster never got going in the second half really. After 50 minutes Leinster just ground their pack down despite Ulster bringing on their subs earlier. That wason paper, a strong Ulster bench. Let's Mayer manhandled them.

That’s one of the maddest takes I’ve seen in a while and that’s saying something, the lads from the 60’s must be mightily disappointed.

I’d agree that Leinster were well on top in the pack and generally their kicking game was beyond excellent.

I also have no problem with the yellow assuming that was actually a penalty, it just wasn’t a penalty.

When you are the underdog and the underdog for good reason, you need some stuff to go your way. I think we have good backs but our pack just isn’t on the same planet right now.

We also self inflicted alot today. The ryan steal in the lineout looked like a blown call to me. He threw it to the front.

One more thing on Pearse, this modern reffing thing to ref the offside line religiously near the goalline and almost not at all anywhere else annoys the crap out of me.

My takeaway from watching a ton of leinster and ireland this year, is that ulster need to find a 15 who is better in the kicking game. Lowe ate our backs’ lunches.

Leinster are WAY ahead in that aspect than any other province.

True, although not all of them. I watched the last ten of the la rochelle game and that ref was more lenient around the line lol. It was a war zone.

I'm delighted for Conan winning the MotM award. He has been under a huge amount of pressure from Doris and been the subject of unfair criticism in comparison with Coombes(who has shat it the last two fixtures)

He's a super player and deserves to be recognised as such.