Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

Lowe definitely would have been sharper had he played last week. He was rusty. Not sure about Tadgh, is he walking wounded? I’m a bit surprised they didn’t stick frawley at ten in for the end. RB wasn’t great up until then and wasn’t leading or taking on responsibilities. May have been a mistake to leave Harry out. In the cold light if day this failure reflects poorly on the coaches.

On a side note, I walked by Shane Horgan and Joe Molloy on Grafton Street like 15 minutes ago. Shaggy looked devo.

He should've benched today, Jenkins was useless

I just cannot believe how badly Leinster have butchered this season.....

Home Playoff matches all the way in 2 competitions (that wont ever happen again)......and they finish empty handed....

Disrespecting the URC has cost them badly....

O'Gara has to be lined up now as the next Irish Head Coach....

Hi, Rape of Lucretia!

Is that you whose been registering half a dozen new accounts to troll tonight's results?

What? Whose better than them in the URC? And before you respond, one loss in a semi-final with the majority of the team being seconds doesn't make the team that defeated them better and they just about best the Leinster seconds.

Only one team better than them in the Champions Cup the last two years. They went into the Champions cup final as favourites, that doesn't happen unless you have shown yourself to be at the top of the game.

ROG is one hell of a PR man. The EPCR confirmed that they arranged rooms for La Rochelle but the club turned them down. But he spins the narrative in his clubs favour. Very Mourinho esque. Wind your side up at a perceived injustice and go from there.

That's the luxury of winning I suppose. You can tell the story that suits and it'll be eaten up.

Had Leinster won they would have been at pains to insist their plans in the weeks leading to the final were correct. And they would have been believed too.

ROG is certainly a fantastic coach. Clearly, he should be in the conversation post Faz.

your Last line is totally obnoxious. Leinster literally have it all and blow it again. People pointing out those inadequacies are not morons, it’s the fine margins crowd who consistently misinterpret the evidence in front of them, led by Leo. We were unlucky today to lose Ryan, he might have managed those line outs and penalties better in the last quarter, but that’s an insufficient explanation for what went wrong. Leinster were out thought and out coached, we reacted appropriately to last year but LAR had moved on, unsurprisingly. Caught out by fighting the last war.

You are just looking for something to complain about.

ROG is one hell of a coach. Give him his dues. Don't dislike him because he used to play with Munster. He's the coach of La Rochelle now, you haven't heard any suggestion that he wants to coach Munster have you?

He's worked hard to get to where he is now. He deserves all the credit he gets for that.

Leinster issues are psychological. Losing both tournaments last year had an affect on them. That's why you have sports psychologists. The issue is the sports psychologists who haven't sorted out the problem.

Personally I'd love to get that job. It'd take me two days max to sort them out. It's pretty easy.

You could see it today, they started great but then went into defend mode. When have you seen Leinster in defend mode this year? When they get a good lead they are looking for more. If they get to thirty points they are looking for forty and if they get there then fifty. And here we were today with them changing their normal game plan which worked incredibly well against Toulouse.

As I said that's on the sports psychologists. They don't just work with the players, they work with the coaches as well.

O'Gara was clearly spinning a story about his side feeling slighted in the build up the game. He wrapped that up in Alldritt's fantasy about Ryan disrespecting him as well.

It's been confirmed that Leinster had nothing to do with any sort of arrangements for the La Rochelle side and the ECPR were handling all of that.

Leinster were outplayed by the better side. It was close, but they still lost. That doesn't excuse O'Gara's comments post game.

I'm absolutely bitter at how we lost the game and disappointed (maybe unreasonably so) with what has emerged after full time.

Interesting to think about how often ppl describe Leinster as the Irish team and it’s mostly true but you have to think Beirne POM and maybe vintage Hendo out there would have got Leinster over the line.

The disappointing thing about the loss for me is, JR goes off injured and everything falls to shyte. Seriously, what sort of pep talk was had at half time? By my count, JR had 4 or 5 good hits and after he left the field a resurgent opposition were met with what? There's no one available that can dust a ball carrier.

I think Ross Byrne fell short those last 10 or so minutes. He should have been directing better and taken the game by the scruff.

Regardless of Peyper or any other ref, Leinster had a shocking 30 or so minutes were they , excuse the similarities, played like Ulster! No offense to Ulster,that Leinster effort was what Ulster supporters have been screaming about for a while.

You see I'm not a Leinster so it's very clear to me what you are at because I don't have goggles on.

So good luck to you and I hope everybody sees this post and ignores you.