Leinster V Edinburgh

Paulw · 06-12-2007 2:47pm #1

Should be a good game tomorrow. I think Leinster will make a good event of it, and hopefully put in a good score.

Team to play -
Leinster: R Kearney; S Horgan, B O'Driscoll (capt), G D'Arcy, L Fitzgerald; F Contepomi, C Willis; O Le Roux, B Jackman, S Wright, L Cullen, M O'Kelly, S Keogh, K Gleeson, J Heaslip.
Replacements: B Blaney, S Knoop, C Jowitt, S Jennings, C Keane, J Sexton, G Brown.

shmaido · 06-12-2007 3:00pm

Paulw wrote: »

Should be a good game tomorrow. I think Leinster will make a good event of it, and hopefully put in a good score.

Team to play -
Leinster: R Kearney; S Horgan, B O'Driscoll (capt), G D'Arcy, L Fitzgerald; F Contepomi, C Willis; O Le Roux, B Jackman, S Wright, L Cullen, M O'Kelly, S Keogh, K Gleeson, J Heaslip.
Replacements: B Blaney, S Knoop, C Jowitt, S Jennings, C Keane, J Sexton, G Brown.

anybody check to see if Cheika had a blind fold on last week or something, thats a crazy selection, willis was absolutely woeful

Paulw · 06-12-2007 3:03pm

Edinburgh team: B Cairns; A Turnbull, N De Luca, M Dey, J Houston; P Godman, M Blair (capt); A Jacobsen, R Ford, G Kerr, M Mustchin, B Gissing, R Reid, R Rennie, D Callam.
Replacements: A Kelly, A Allori, C Hamilton, S Cross, B Meyer, D Blair, C MacRae.

Referee: Romain Poite (France)

I guess we will have to see if Cheika is having a moment of madness or genius.

wesclark · 07-12-2007 1:17pm

can't go and have 2 30euro tickets.

Holler if you want them; 087 9289854.

I'm in Trinity all day

dc69 · 07-12-2007 1:38pm

WILLIS is pony and trap,cant believe hes been picked again,needs to go back to the under 10's training to learn how to pass!the demolishment of edinburagh we all foresaw might not be so anymore,i have no doubts we will beat them but without that nice quick ball(that doesnt hit the backs in the face) we wont see that face nice flowing rugby with willis on the case.

i hope they give sexton a few minutes,looks a solid player,has a very nice boot,reminiscent of o'gara sometimes(his kicking for touch etc)

Snickers Man · 07-12-2007 1:44pm

With Whitaker out through injury, our options at scrum half are not all that great. We need to give guys like Willis some match time. He will improve.

You're not suggesting we treat him like Eddie O'Sullivan treats Paddy Wallace, are you?

tHE vAGGABOND · 07-12-2007 2:03pm

To be fair, I was at the game last week, and it was the worst weather I have ever watched a game in..

You should not judge any back on last week..

Lets hope weather is slightly better this week. Anyway, these two lads are our 9's for the season [and maybe beyond], and they both need games under their belt...

Sangre · 07-12-2007 3:34pm

"Cold and windy with heavy blustery showers of rain or hail, some thundery. The showers will become more scattered later this afternoon and this evening and winds will ease somewhat. Highest temperatures 6 to 9 degrees."

Its been a horrible day so far, lets hope it eases off. Don't fancy being out in the rain today.

zAbbo · 07-12-2007 6:59pm

does't look like rain outside, but sure is nippy, looking forward to it.

now to find somewhere tasty to eat beforehand.

bleg · 07-12-2007 7:11pm

if that rain that hit the west earlier hits for this match it's going to be very very scrappy

and very very coooooooooold

phog · 07-12-2007 10:51pm

Bad result tonight for Leinster in view of letting Toulouse score a BP against them in the last match.

Why they opted for a penalty kick when Edinburgh were down to 14 men cost them, Leinster won most if not all of their lineouts so they should have opted to kick to the corner and go for a push over try. Edinburgh were down a forward at the time and a try must have been possible.

Stev_o · 07-12-2007 11:12pm

Seriously could Willis be any worse???? If Cheika had any sense he'd tell him to find a different sport because this one aint for him. Cost Leinster the bonus point

toomevara · 07-12-2007 11:13pm

Oh dear, real curit's egg of a performance. Good first thirty, don't know what happened after that. Will rue not getting bonus point. Should BOD have played?

Stev_o · 07-12-2007 11:16pm

toomevara wrote: »

Oh dear, real curit's egg of a performance. Good first thirty, don't know what happened after that. Will rue not getting bonus point. Should BOD have played?

I dunno spent a great deal of time at shouting at his own players [Horgan incident] and the opposition, in fairness Lucca kept him well wrapped up for the whole game

toomevara · 07-12-2007 11:18pm

Stev_o wrote: »

I dunno spent a great deal of time at shouting at his own players [Horgan incident] and the opposition, in fairness Lucca kept him well wrapped up for the whole game

Absolutely, seemed really tetchy and obviously carrying that injury. Spot on re: de Luca, he was for me the man of the match...

Erin Go Brath · 07-12-2007 11:24pm

Missed opportunity for Leinster. Going for goal instead of going for the corner in the second half was a bad call. In the context of this group a bp was a must for Leinster tonight. Its going to be very uphill from here i feel. I don't really trust Leinster away from home in the HEC. If it wasn't for Godwins God awful kicking it could've been worse!

phog · 07-12-2007 11:45pm

Erin Go Brath wrote: »

Missed opportunity for Leinster. Going for goal instead of going for the corner in the second half was a bad call. In the context of this group a bp was a must for Leinster tonight. Its going to be very uphill from here i feel. I don't really trust Leinster away from home in the HEC. If it wasn't for Godwins God awful kicking it could've been worse!

Nay, Edinburgh were never going to win though Leinster should have got the BP, agree with you about going for goal when the Scots were down to 14.

Leinster may surprise us all and get the BP next week.

Erin Go Brath · 08-12-2007 12:00am

phog wrote: »

Nay, Edinburgh were never going to win though Leinster should have got the BP, agree with you about going for goal when the Scots were down to 14.

Leinster may surprise us all and get the BP next week.

I hope they do. If Godwin kicked his missed chances over it would've made it very tight, although yeah Leinster never really looked in danger of loosing this. They need to go all out and try and get a bonus next week to keep up the pressure on Toulouse and Leicester though. It doesn't need me to say it, but the margins in this group are so tight that a BP will make a huge difference in the final reckonings.

dc69 · 08-12-2007 1:59am

this is the second time i think jackman has been robbed of the man of the match award,i really think he deserved it above contepomi,willis was better today but still ****,if they had brought chris keane on for the last 20 mins i honestly think we would have gotten the bonus point

just to add heaslip was immence,deserves call up i actually cant wait to see eddies next team

Crash · 08-12-2007 2:55am

Two people in my mind on the leinster side who deserved the MotM award:

Jackman
Cullen

Jackman for his general field work, for decent scrummaging, and his lineout was a hell of a lot better than his average over the last year.

Cullen for the simple fact that he had a hand in everything. and I mean everything.

toomevara · 08-12-2007 9:34am

Its heartening to watch a Leinster performance where the best players on the field are forwards. Great performances from Jackman, Heaslip, Cullen, Gleeson et al. Now, if only that much vaunted centre partnership could click offensively I think Leinster could really be contenders.

zAbbo · 08-12-2007 11:46am

There goes the chances of getting out of the group, 8 points from 2 home games isn't good enough, and missing out on a Losing BP away to Toulouse has all but ended the HC for Leinster.

Jackz · 08-12-2007 1:18pm

You could see Contepomi roaring at Willis each time he passed to him signaling that the pass was droping too low as it reach him.

phog · 08-12-2007 2:00pm

zabbo wrote: »

There goes the chances of getting out of the group, 8 points from 2 home games isn't good enough, and missing out on a Losing BP away to Toulouse has all but ended the HC for Leinster.

It's not so much in missing out on the losing BP it was the way they allowed Toulouse win with a BP that was crazy and yes they should certainly got a winning BP last night. It will cost them yet.

toomevara · 08-12-2007 2:13pm

Jackz wrote: »

You could see Contepomi roaring at Willis each time he passed to him signaling that the pass was droping too low as it reach him.

Yeah, a foot to far in front most of the time and too low. Also too many steps from base of a ruck before the pass.

Jackz · 08-12-2007 5:26pm

And it took away some of his running options, steping off the foot of the recieving side because he had to turn and move in Willis's direction, most times he had to kick.

Stev_o · 08-12-2007 6:24pm

Well Leinster are 3rd in the group now with Leicester picking up the win today

DmanDmythDledge · 08-12-2007 8:34pm

Cullen has been class this season, has to be part of Ireland's second row in the new year.

bleg · 09-12-2007 12:23am

hard to see leinster qualifying out of that group now, have to go to edinburgh as well, and they don't have the best away record there...

toomevara · 09-12-2007 11:45am

bleg wrote: »

hard to see leinster qualifying out of that group now, have to go to edinburgh as well, and they don't have the best away record there...

I might be hopelessly optimistic here but I think Leinster will get out, just. I wouldn't worry about Edinburgh, Leinster have their measure. They're cussed and difficult but Leinster have the beating of them as long as the away gremlins don't strike again

DmanDmythDledge · 09-12-2007 3:23pm

Forgive me for being so pessimistic but I don't Leinster will have the beating of Toulouse or Leicester.

Leinster V Edinburgh

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