Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

The URC elimination has been massively compounded by today's result.

As I said last week, what could have been an irritation (had we won) is now a disaster.

Two trophyless years for the on-paper favourites (and I realise that doesn't guarantee anything) is really concerning. Three losses all year and two of those were critical.

That was a high class test level game between the two best sides in Europe my a mile. Despite what some might say there really isn't much between the two sides. La Rochelle have beaten Leinster twice by taking the lead deep in the final ten minutes if the game.

The issue is really how Leinster deals with a power game and when the opposition keeps possession. They weren't able to figure it out against La Rochelle last year, against Munster last week and again today.

It's not the end of the world like the gloaters above say. It's a challenge to overcome and I hope we do.

There's no doubt Leinster got their 2nd half tactics wrong. La Rochelle at one point in the second half had only made 39 tackles. Leinster made it easy for them by kicking (often very poorly) back to them.

Who said anything about not questioning the coaches? They deserve criticism and I referred to it in my post. I wasn't taking about you. TRC's victory lap is what I'm referring to. He only shows up when Leinster loses

Ridiculous take. Nobody was beating LaR. Best team in the tournament each of the last 3 seasons. Leinster weren't good enough. Lancaster can only do so much! Abject failure today. Criminal performances from JGP, Lowe and Jenkins. Not even going to mention Furlong who had no impact really. Awful team performance with no leadership and balls. You can't coach balls! Either they have them or don't.

Someone was asking how many La Rochelle players would get into the Leinster squad? The question should be would many Leinster lads get into their squad. For the 3rd year in a row.... not many.

I wouldn't mind if Jenkins was leaving now. He's clearly nowhere good enough for this kind of match. Fcuk it, give Joe McCarthy and Deeny all the minutes we can. I can't see how they could be any worse than Jenkins.

Luke should have been brought on early. It was apparent that JGP was soiling himself as the match progressed.

Losing JR really fcuked us. Molony is a good player but he's not very capable against the big boys. Jenkins......

Definitely going to be remembered. Acting the dickhead even in victory. In the build up everyone was tripping over themselves to be complimentary to La Rochelle.

The amount of English fans tripping over themselves to gloat over the Leinster loss is bizarre. I'm convinced their media has built Leinster as a bogey man to deflect from their own serious structural failings. And there's probably some good old fashioned John Bull exceptionalism at play as well.

Why did we not go for the corner on 47 mins?!

Did we learn nothing from last year?! We scored three points in the second half. Our two kicks out on the full and a couple of slices put us under so much unnecessary pressure.

We should also have had more patience at the end to get over.