Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

Positives are McCarthy continuing to improve and Baird yet again taking apart another sides lineout. Our bench also made a positive impact in terms of keeping up territorial dominance.

We're currently unable to exploit that dominance, but hopefully that'll come in time. Getting Ross Byrne back would go a long way. He'll never be a top class 10, but he's the best decision maker of all the current options available.

I'm not arguing - nor did I ever - who the best player on the pitch was, nor who the best 10 was. I pointed out, accurately, that nobody had said that Prendergast was the best 10 on the pitch, even Clegg. That's all I said. You were making that up and arguing with yourself. Given you posted something very similar - if not nearly word for word - half way through the game in the Ulster thread, you had a chip on your shoulder about the Leinster-centric focus Prendergast was getting and decided to take it here as well. That's just my read on things though. I won't be responding on the matter (Prendergast, Burns, McCarthy, etc) again.

Like I said earlier in the thread, congrats on the win. I thought Burns was great tonight, easily the best 10 on the pitch and he stitched Leinster up like a kipper multiple times from hand. Ulster managed the second half superbly without a lot of possession and some of the defense at the end was fantastic. It's a great result for Ulster.

Enjoy the win!

Lads, there's a time and a place. This is neither. You just look bitter.

The abundance of kicking inside enemy territory is an interesting one. The conventional wisdom for the last few years is that Leinster murder teams off lineout ball, either with the maul (inside the 22) or with strike plays (closer to midfield). The kicking that we saw tonight was consistent with this, I think. Kicks with a view to pressuring the exit. Boks, on the other hand, seem to go more for the contestable kick with the hope of a regather or (I'm sure they'd much prefer) a scrum. It's a subtle difference but one I think that's still largely true to Leinster's existing strengths.

All being said, it took Rowntree and Mike P a good 6-7 months before the new Munster system was coherent and effective. Leinster are a fraction along that timeframe and it's unlikely things really coalesce before April.

Is this the Burns bandwagon again? One good outing does not make him international quality.