Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

Wow, i was wondering why no one had signed him.

I kind of like this pickup honestly. Club guy, not at same level of development as some others but really looks to have it physically.

That wasn’t really what i meant. None of the three i mentioned would have been inductees for leinster this year. It would have been next year if they made it. Leinster usually don’t take guys in early.

There were a number of guys who went to other academies (nicholson, hadden, foxe, victory) who are ‘normal’ as in they seemed to have left because there aren’t enough spots this year in what would be their expected induction year.

McCarthy is prob the best prop prospect i’ve seen in u20 since porter so its tough. He really does not seem like a tighthead to me but leinster’s looshead chart is stacked all the way down. Both Hadden and Foxe seem like good prospects though.

I think you guys took in 8 guys which is prob close to the max for one year considering 20 is max for academy i think. Not sure if that is a hard limit but i can’t remember anyone having more than 20.

I would guess its competition and yea possibly Sexton as well.

I think you’ll get to at least 6 next year. You will have 5 spots (3 graduates and 2 empty spots if 20 is max) and usually one guy takes a leap and grabs an early senior deal.

Ah, yea i guess they can always fund their own. I’m not sure how that works as i think academy coaches are also direct irfu contracted.

He's shown no intention of leaving to this point, despite continuously not being trusted in big games. So I'd say probably not. He seems happy enough being a squad player.

Hearing a few factors in Foxes move to Munster. Namely the oversubscription of props in Leinster.

Could well have been an IRFU led thing which is very fair. We have Lasisi and McGuire in there as well as potentially McCarthy.

As UU20s pointed out there are quotas.

I don't know if the IRFU whispered encouragements or drove the bus for him to Garryowen but it makes sense that he goes.

Leinster were in a position to offer him a second year in Sub academy with a murkier path to senior rugby. It's more straight forward in Munster.

Disappointing for us. He might end up being a solid bit of business for Munster. But 50/50 decisions have to be made sometimes. And occasionally they're made wrong. But many times they're made right.

Either way fair play to him for getting himself a contract. He's another great example of a more atypical route to pro rugby

Crowley coming through as strongly as he has makes Frawley surplus to requirements for what Farrell envisioned him for in the squad - a 10 that can play multiple other positions in the backs.

Crowley might have swung the pendulum so far now that he'll be starting 10 post WC, so Frawley might end up staying in the frame in that 10 plus utility role.