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

Everyone is going on about prendergast double chip, if he tries that against a SA team he gets emptied and doesn't get up for a week, still not convinced on his general play as he seems a bit slow and predictable.Leinster would better served in the next year or 2 with a NIQ journeyman out-half that pinning their hopes on prendergast, neither Byrnes are good enough.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong here but I don't recall it that often that Larmour gets frequently gets isolated and turned over so although he can jink sideways at times, there's probably a benefit in that, that he's sometimes moving more towards an area where he has support and he's not getting turned over.

I think the biggest problem is that he's on the borderline of shepherding, as he often runs behind other players to cut in. It also slows down the play a lot. Sometimes you're better to just take the tackle and recycle quickly, or maybe just pass it? It seems like when he's in that cut back mode, he gets a bit blinkered.

I think the reason that he wasn't emptied though is because his general play isn't slow and predictable. He has more variety to his game then any of our other players at 10.

There's zero chance of Leinster signing a journeyman 10 over a promising young 10, because tbh its just a terrible idea. As others have pointed out Ross is better then any of the bog standard journey men out there

Watched a replay of yesterday's game. Thought Doris was exceptional and should have been named motm.

He's carrying strongly, but the big point of difference in his game is his work at the breakdown. He's constantly cheating and acting the maggot at every opportunity. He's killing ball and getting away with it. Reading the referee excellently.

At this stage he's the obvious replacement for POM as Ireland captain.

That could be said for half of Bods most famous clips along with the lions training one. At the end of the day there will be players who can pull a bit of magic out of their sleeve and ones who can't. If Prendergast is, then I'd be happy for him to keep doing what hes doing. As you say, you make your luck

Leibster aren't allowed sign a niq 10

Aside from the risk of conceding a cheap penalty for running behind his own players it's his inability / unwillingness to pop a pass to a straight runner when the defense honeypot him.

Part of his unpredictability is that his own team don't read his runs and time their run to accept a pop pass into the gap he's creating. All feet, no head. Great to watch 'though.

Without Keenan fb looks iffy. O'Brien struggled yesterday. I think if Ulster were at full strenght, we could have been turned over. Very happy to have got the win. Losing both matches in the league was a downer.

He wanted to play 7s, mad to stop him if he really wants to be an olympian and has a past playing 7s and is trying to make olympics squad. If he wanted to be eligible to play in the olympics he had to play a specified amount of qualifying tournaments which clashed with the urc run in

Disagree. Whatever keeps him passionate, training hard and developing his skills. We're talking about him missing 4 urc games (assuming they reach the final) and 2 ireland games. He could miss far more with an injury.

Jimmy getting a run of games at fullback is decent development too. It's grand.

Really wants to!? Its supposed to be an elite professional set-up. Maybe next year Joe McCarthy 'really wants' to go on dancing with the stars - no problem Joe, just come back in the Autumn. Real amateur era nonsense from Keenan.

Wasn’t it from Nucifora that the sevens could call on one player from each of the provinces? Keenan was the obvious Leinster option (with JOB an alternative) as was Smith from Connacht. Is Baloucoune injured? Not sure who Munster supplied.

Not likely to make olympics. Think he was primarily playing AIL all season