Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

Mainly to satisfy my curiousity.

Was that the penalty early in the second half? Watching the game last night, it was a very harsh call. Loughman is driving across from the first moment and the entire scrum is moving infield thereafter. Busby was on the other side of the scrum but his AR was 10m away looking straight at it.

I think Busby was generally quite good though. He missed some stuff as any referee will but controlled things well and didn't take any crap. Leinster were on the edge in their dealings with him, disagreeing fairly strongly. I thought Ryan was fairly harshly done for not rolling on the penalty in front of the posts to bring it to 14-13. He had clearly rolled to the side and not obstructing any ball coming back. I think that interaction did pay off though as I'm not sure there was another defensive ruck penalty against Leinster aside from the Doris slapdown.

Murray can't roll the ball with his hand on the deck. He has to use his foot for that. It's something that isn't called too often (nor is it really done that often anymore) but when it should come into play if the opposition react to it. McCarthy's error was not asking/pointing that out to the referee. The offside is something that will happen and sometimes will be marginal either way, for me.

Maybe it's a blessing in disguise.

The way Europe is set up they should qualify for knockouts regardless.

I don't wish injury on anyone but there is a log jam at 10 even with Johnny gone.

Leinster need to see Harry and Frawley at 10 in Europe. Its potentially a big month for both of them.

Harry had a knee heavily strapped when running as the 24th man at the weekend so hopefully he is fit enough for some gametime this weekend.

Frawley is a solid placekicker and is very physically robust for the position but his kicking out of hand and his ability to initiate or playmake aren't at the level required for Leinster right now. That isn't to say it won't get there but Prendergast in terms of heads up rugby and kicking out of hand is miles ahead. I think they are very comfortable with Frawley giving them an additional kicking option at 12 if needed or at times filling in at 15. He has utility player written all over him which is a great thing for Leinster but maybe not for Frawley.

I don't think the injuries long term are that bad that an extra player needs to be brought in, worst case scenario if everything went to crap, they could find a serviceable fly half on a short term loan to cover them but I can't see that happening.