Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

I'm not familiar with that stat but if it's true then it's extremely impressive for Munster. They have far fewer resources so will inevitably produce fewer home grown players than Leinster, who have far more resources and should in turn be expected to produce far more homegrown players.

I think all provinces are doing well in player development in the context of most of our European competitors, and movement of some players within the system is natural and to be welcomed. I don't see the problem.

If it is 15/23 vs 17/23 it to some degree is overblown.

One position group realistically being a weakness is going to happen at some point to everyone but leinster.

5 players would be surprising. I think Milne would be an interesting one. If i was leinster i’d probably try to make doubly sure that I kept both of mccarthy and boyle as a clear priority. So that would make sense. They are both prob higher potential than milne.

Frawley would surprise me. I’m not sure munster is clearly a better situation for him. I’m not sure he would start for their fully fit first team except maybe at 15.

Soroka… who knows.

If i was them, i’d try to get Larmour. He would really fit that offensive style.

Edit: also one point of distinction.. are hadden and foxe really leinster products? Imo if you never gave a player a penny to play rugby for you, you don’t get to claim them as products. All their professional development will be done outside leinster. Or at the very least we need to figure out some other term. Because you can’t claim foxe and salanoa surely?

Or to put it another way i don’t consider McKee an Ulster product. He did basically his entire pro development at leinster. Not giving leinster any credit for that is weird.