Leinster Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread XII (The Byrne Supremacy)

It's not checked you just scan at turnstile which is automated and not checked after that

It is really embarrassing for them. The medals will been seen as making it all worth it but a sad way to live.

Imagine after winning your trophy and in the aftermath rather than celebrating you're crying over the level of eye contact given during the coin toss and a bunch of other imagined slights in the build-up.

Will chuckle away with whatever nonsense ROG comes out with this week.

I hope they spend the whole **** week working on clearances. Two finals in a row we shot ourselves in the feet with both barrels. Sick of it.

Echo what many are saying here. Whilst somewhat forced with the short turnaround, it is great to see such value for a Quarter Final of a European Cup in what is the glamour tie of the round.

I wonder what numbers are they expecting. From the ticket sale it looks like the upper west has not been released at all so seems it will be empty for the match. I do think this extra round of knockout games takes away from the knockouts in general. If this game was lined up for the last couple of months it would easily be a sell out. Fingers crossed they sell as many as possible. 5.30pm kick off is perfect too.

Oh yeah, understand that. It was more an observation about expectation about potential sales. You'd imagine if they were confident of a sell-out it would be on sale from the start. As I said hopefully they sell as many as possible.

They were atrocious against Leicester. I don't know why we go long when they're just going to run the ball back at us. James Lowe also had an off day and we didn't use Jamie Osborne once to kick the ball, who has a boot just as good as Lowe. Hopefully we switch to kicking to compete, using box kicks in our 22 and then when we are just in our own half using the Boks special with the out half sending up a huge kick at their wings and apply pressure.

If we kick half as badly as we did against Leicester it will be difficult to win the game, scoring a try was almost painful because I knew the **** clearances were coming.

Got sorted

Please note this has nothing to do with other provinces, well not nothing but I am not talking about Munster fans supporting La Rochelle, I couldn't care less

I am wondering will the rest of the URC teams be cheering on a Leinster win at the weekend?

Bulls and Leinster are only two teams left in it with a very difficult game for Bulls away in Northampton.

My reasoning behind it, if Leinster get knocked out on Saturday they only have the URC left to play for, a full firing Leinster team with no European games would be a lot more difficult to play against than a team playing in both competitions. As we have seen Leinster have focused on European instead of URC in this situation, so for the other teams to get a better chance to win the URC having them stay longer in Europe is better for them?

Everyone seems to be saying he is out

Who will be captain? I hope they have done some "looking into the eye" training so Aldritt doesn't get upset again

Will be assessed further during the week according to Leo. Healy in a similar position.

Robbie, Keenan, Frawley and Porter all fit to play.

https://www.leinsterrugby.ie/2024/04/08/leo-cullen-issues-injury-update-ahead-of-quarter-final-against-la-rochelle/

Tickets sales are already above 20,000 for Saturday's game. Think this might be a sellout.

Will probably be more Leinster fans than at the final last summer due to relative lack of corporate giveaways and fans of other clubs attending.

How have we done when reffed by Karl Dickson? Does he suit us?