Magners League Weekend Spectacular

zAbbo · 11-10-2007 8:44pm #1

Friday, 12 October 2007
Cardiff Blues v Connacht, 19:30
Glasgow v Leinster, 19:30 Setanta Sports
Llanelli Scarlets v Ulster, 19:10 - BBCw/Setanta

Sunday, 14 October 2007
Ospreys v Munster, 16:10 - S4C/Setanta

Magners Legaue Table

Tough games all round.
Boss captains Ulster, Carney & Stringer back at Munster, Horgan & O'Kelly back at Leinster.

Thoughts?

remus808 · 11-10-2007 8:52pm

zabbo wrote: »

Thoughts?

Where's the rest of the internationals!

They need to get their feet back on the ground.

Funkstard · 11-10-2007 9:18pm

karmabass wrote: »

Where's the rest of the internationals!

They need to get their feet back on the ground.

Or they need to take a break and be nowhere near rugby for a while!

Stev_o · 11-10-2007 9:24pm

Funkstard wrote: »

Or they need to take a break and be nowhere near rugby for a while!

And isnt that what EOS complained about during the WC that they hadnt touched a ball in a long time?

In my own view they need to get on the pitch to either regain their confidence or give us one damn good reason why they are internationals in the first place

zAbbo · 11-10-2007 9:26pm

It's still inside their international window, so I guess they're either taking a break, or dealing with the aftermath of the RWC.

All this 'They need to get there arses back playing asap fume fume' is getting a bit tedious.

cruiserweight · 11-10-2007 10:24pm

Firhill is only around the corner from my flat, so I am going to the Glasgow vs Leinster game, just hope it is a good game.

zAbbo · 12-10-2007 4:53pm

cruiserweight wrote: »

Firhill is only around the corner from my flat, so I am going to the Glasgow vs Leinster game, just hope it is a good game.

Should be an interesting game anyway, met a few Glasgow girls at the last Leinster game, and they fancied their changes at beating the performance Leinster put in.

cruiserweight · 12-10-2007 4:58pm

zabbo wrote: »

Should be an interesting game anyway, met a few Glasgow girls at the last Leinster game, and they fancied their changes at beating the performance Leinster put in.

I am looking forward to seeing the young back three in action. I don't know much about the Glasgow team other than they are second bottom of the league

zAbbo · 12-10-2007 5:00pm

Daryl Gibson is still decent, he's a former All Black centre.

Diamondmaker · 12-10-2007 8:33pm

zabbo wrote: »

Glasgow v Leinster, 19:30 Setanta Sports
Llanelli Scarlets v Ulster, 19:10 - BBCw/Setanta

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Story? Im staring at the Ulsetr match no sign of Leinster on Setanta?:mad:

EdgarAllenPoo · 12-10-2007 8:41pm

The Leinster match is on Setanta Sports 1.

Stev_o · 12-10-2007 8:48pm

GDM wrote: »

The Leinster match is on Setanta Sports 1.

Score please?

Diamondmaker · 12-10-2007 8:55pm

Setanta sports 1 ???

I can only see Setant with the Ulster match, the ML web site says its on Setanta UK.

live score and updates on magnersleague.com

currently: 11-12 Sexton keeping us in touch it seems.

63 mins Penalty kick Colin Gregor 11-12

8-12 61 mins Drop kick Jonathan Sexton
59 mins Missed penalty Colin Gregor -

8-9 56 mins Penalty kick Jonathan Sexton
50 mins Substitution Chris O'Young on
for Sam Pinder -

- 50 mins Substitution Keith Gleeson on
for Shane Jennings

- 50 mins Substitution Malcolm O'Kelly on

Diamondmaker · 12-10-2007 9:06pm

72 mins Substitution Hefin O'Hare on
for Max Evans -

72 mins Substitution Scott Barrow on
for Colin Gregor -

- 69 mins Missed conversion Jonathan Sexton

11-17 69 mins Try Cian Healy

Diamondmaker · 12-10-2007 9:08pm

73 mins Missed conversion Scott Barrow -

73 mins Try Hefin O'Hare 16-17

AbusesToilets · 12-10-2007 9:17pm

Shocking option by willis off of that scrum,talk about giving it up on a plate.Poor defense there at the end to get so exposed out wide for that cross field

Diamondmaker · 12-10-2007 9:17pm

:mad:

80+4 mins Missed conversion Scott Barrow -

80+4 mins Try Bernardo Stortoni 21-17

Cant see from the web was the Ref Welsh :rolleyes:

Was the game good?

Was a relatively weak team that eventually lined out .......

Diamondmaker · 12-10-2007 9:19pm

AbusesToilets wrote: »

Shocking option by willis off of that scrum,talk about giving it up on a plate.Poor defense there at the end to get so exposed out wide for that cross field

what did the young whipper snapper do?

rookie error?

zAbbo · 12-10-2007 9:20pm

didn't deserve it, and rightly beaten

Stev_o · 12-10-2007 9:23pm

zabbo wrote: »

didn't deserve it, and rightly beaten

Told ya Glasgow could do it :P Though i wish i could have watched the match

So Zabbo how do you think they played?

AbusesToilets · 12-10-2007 9:23pm

The scrum was to leinster in their 22 on the left hand side.He took and ran behind the scrum from the right to the left.the glasgow players were right on top of him and he made a poor kick which gave glasgow a lineout inside the leinster 22.From their they scored subsequently

AbusesToilets · 12-10-2007 9:24pm

Just an unfortunate decision to make

Diamondmaker · 12-10-2007 9:29pm

AbusesToilets wrote: »

The scrum was to leinster in their 22 on the left hand side.He took and ran behind the scrum from the right to the left.the glasgow players were right on top of him and he made a poor kick which gave glasgow a lineout inside the leinster 22.From their they scored subsequently

Sexton has a biog boot. That was the option given the score and time, grr.

At least hes getting some mopre big(ish) game time and importnatly for Ireland Sexton too, in critical positions.

AbusesToilets · 12-10-2007 9:31pm

Yeah it's definately good to see,Healey's score was quality,both the way he ran the support line and the fact he bunrt his defender,He's also gotten ****ing huge since he left school

phog · 12-10-2007 10:57pm

What's happening to Irish Rugby, the three provinces were beaten tonight. The lads at work do a bet each week on the results, I had expected Connacht to lose, wasn't sure about Ulster (but they didn't bother to turn up) and I had Leinster to win (I was so sure I said they'd win with a BP).

Cian Healy score a brilliant try and this should have sealed the win for Leinster. What happended in the last lineout, Leinster's put in yet Glasgow get the ball back and manage to score an all important try.

During the WC we heard that Mal was a lineout specialist yet for the most important lineout of the evening Leinster went AWOL and allowed turnover ball to Glasgow.

zAbbo · 13-10-2007 11:06am

Healys try was pure class, the no look offload from Blaney was good, but he totally burnt his man for face and sidestep.

Poor decision from Willis at the end, why he wanted to break down the blind on his 22 who knows, drop that ball back to either Sexton or Kearney to put it back on the half way line.

Erin Go Brath · 14-10-2007 1:55pm

Ospreys v Munster 4.10pm is live on Setanta 2 in case anyone was wondering.

phog · 14-10-2007 3:40pm

The Ospreys V Munster match in S4C which is available on the FTV dish if anyone has one. AFAIK it's also available on the net - http://www.s4c.co.uk/e_watch_level2.shtml?title=Y%20Clwb%20Rygbi. KO 16.10.

Jackz · 14-10-2007 4:14pm

Munster v the Gweilch you mean

Erin Go Brath · 14-10-2007 6:12pm

16-3 to Ospreys.

Frustrating game from Munster point of view. Littered with handling errors, and near misses from Munster. I thought Carney was the best of the backs (albeit with little possession), and Hurley was the best forward on show.

All 4 Irish provinces lost this weekend and last weekend. Does anybody think its bad form that the international boys aren't back playing for their provinces? The Welsh boys were all back in action including Williams, and Phillips who put in great performances for the Ospreys.

2 weeks before the Heine cup kicks off. A lot of work still to be done.

phog · 14-10-2007 8:55pm

2 games in a row where Munster lost and yet had enough scoring opertunities to win. Lots of poor passes, poor handling and poor desision making.

Mushy and Quinnie were the Munster MOTM.

We crossed the line three times but got none of them -strange. If McDowell asked the TMO ( as he should have according the Paddy O'B) was there any reason why the try shouldn't be allowed, Watkins would have awarded it and we should surley have been granted Manning Try as there was an Osprey's player on the ground playing the ball to cause the ball to be knocked on.

Hard to see at this stage any of the 3 porvinces coming through the HEC Pool stages.

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