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

You asked what protections Leinster have vs clubs sitting on similar talent rich areas.

That's the protection. I'm not sure what else to tell you.

A normal player market isn't some crazy hypothetical. That's the reality for those other clubs.

I have no idea why you made this into a big deal. This is a SELF EVIDENT advantage.

Maybe… or maybe i say something extremely obvious like 'player movement restrictions in ireland are an advantage for leinster vs big clubs overseas' and people drive themselves into a FRENZY arguing about other things.

Edit: but yea fair enough, let's leave it here.

Oh my **** god. You asked what the protection is vs foreign clubs with talent bases and i told you. Which you already recognized would weaken Leinster vs european comp if lifted.

Now you aren't even arguing that any more. You are just psycho analyzing me for some reason.

Ok, i'm out. Have a lovely day.

Edit : also just to be clear. I don't mean leinster players are money hungry or whatever. I just mean free markets effect player values especially at the top.

Have you ever actually been involved in or played any team sport ulsteru20s?

Most of the young lads at Leinster that you’ve spent the last 10 pages debating about are born and bred in Leinster. They grew up dreaming of playing for Leinster. They live in Leinster, their families and friends are in Leinster. They’re playing rugby now with a team they grew up supporting and some of them with teammates they’ve been with since they first started playing rugby.

For a lot of them the wages are irrelevant and they’d play for Leinster for no wages as it’s what they’ve always wanted to do.

That’s what team sport is about when you’re playing for your own club.

Of course there will be some exceptions to the rule, and as lads get older and start families etc. priorities will change and some will move for better money to support that.

Some will move due to not making first teams etc, but in their first few years where a lot of them are probably still living at home with parents and don’t have major financial commitments the dream is to make it at Leinster and a few pound more from another province isn’t going to change that dream as it’s not about the money yet.

I'm not saying guys don't want to play for their province. I'm saying that the only real way to sway some people away from that is probably to outbid leinster or ulster or munster or connacht.

People are taking this very black and white but i honestly don't think its that controversial.

If there is a rule against that, which popular perception says there is, that's why its there. To stop bidding wars to get guys out of their province. Which is a good thing, but is still … an advantage.

https://www.the42.ie/rg-snyman-leinster-5-6373536-May2024/

Jim Dempsey having a stroke

interested to see what side plays this weekend...

no people are looking at it and thinking what is best for the IRFu, player, provinces, system….take whichever you want as a priority but the plan fails for all of them

Maybe move it to another thread because running it constantly in the Leinster thread just suggests bitterness toward Leinster

Ruddock retiring.