Leainster team to face edinburgh

shmaido

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LEINSTER:

15: Rob Kearney
14: Shane Horgan
13: Kieran Lewis
12: Gordon D'Arcy
11: Denis Hickie
10: Felipe Contepomi CAPTAIN
9: Chris Whitaker

1: Stan Wright
2: Bernard Jackman
3: Will Green
4: Trevor Hogan
5: Malcolm O'Kelly
6: Stephen Keogh
7: Keith Gleeson
8: Jamie Heaslip

REPLACEMENTS:

16: Harry Vermaas
17: Reggie Corrigan
18: Owen Finegan
19: Cameron Jowitt
20: Guy Easterby
21: Christian Warner
22: Luke Fitzgerald

Brian O’Driscoll picked up a knock during the week and misses the game through injury and his place goes to Kieran Lewis who partners Gordon D’Arcy at centre.

RuggieBear wrote:

A better question would be when was the last time BOD played in Donnybrook (Leinster's proper home ground)

...don't mean to start conspiracies or anything, but actually I do, its getting a little beyond coincedence n'est pas?

Scootay

Well he did play last week and Cheika says he'll be available for next week and since Cheika's not a man for resting players I presume it's nothing too serious and certainly not a big cover up.

zAbbo

Calf Injury, nothing serious apparently, and will be available next weekend.

Maybe Cheika isn't taking precautions, Strange that I'd consider losing Dr.Phil or D'Arcy as a greater loss right now.

buck65

So Leinster are now resting players in the Heineken Cup to concentrate on the Magners League?:)

daveirl

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Amz

Ah lads, the poor guy's conspiracy theory will never work if you keep pointing out the obvious flaws!

davyjose

buck65 wrote:

So Leinster are now resting players in the Heineken Cup to concentrate on the Magners League?:)

Resting injured players? TBH this is Leinsters most important game so far - and BOD was at Donnybrook on Saturday.

Jilm

Agen beating Gloucester tonight will help Leinster's cause to finish top of the group.

It'll be interesting to see how well Lewis plays tomorrow.

davyjose

Jilm wrote:

Agen beating Gloucester tonight will help Leinster's cause to finish top of the group.

It'll be interesting to see how well Lewis plays tomorrow.

A bonus point against Gloucester or Edinburgh should see us through. The idea now is to get a good seeding. So we can set up an ALL Irish final

Scootay

Leinster are two ahead of Agen and four ahead of Gloucester so all that's needed is a win tonight and Leinster top the group even with out the bonus point and ignoring anything that could happen next weekend.

davyjose

Your right Scootay - I miscalculated. I fully expect a win, but Edinburgh are our bogey team. At least we don't need a bonus point.

Trojan

Sangre

Heh, comprehensive.

Another great first try by Kearney.

Diamondmaker

I enjoyed that I watched it on a loan silent screen on santa monica blvd in an english bar showing the premiership!

RK really looking the bizz in attack, 2 killer tries in 2 weeks from the FB position. What a guy for munster to get. Crowd looked great missed all the press about BOD but after KO off when I saw Phil lead the tem out ( was actually the missus that said hey wheres BOD if Phils is cpatain, have her welltrained now) I rang my mate who rekoned he had a knock and a bug.
No conspiracy for sure here, an absolute must win game v a team who heve beaten us many times of late. He played a while ago when sick and this may have been afters.
Darcy looked awsome again. ! only wish there were some yanks in the bar at the time to showcase that style of rugby. :cool:

davyjose

Diamondmaker wrote:

What a guy for munster to get.

Surely Leinster will be puttin the skids on this now?

Erin Go Brath

davyjose wrote:

Surely Leinster will be puttin the skids on this now?

Maybe he wants to move on to bigger and better things?

csk

Surely Leinster are not letting Kearney go? Are they?

This would be an absolute travesty just look at his try at the weekend pure class. For all Girv the swerve's talents I don't think he matches Kearney in terms of class and Kearney is still relatively young.

davyjose

Erin Go Brath wrote:

Maybe he wants to move on to bigger and better things?

Yeah - he can mix it up with some of the best backs in the world ... oh wait

Sangre

I've been saying it along, Leinster would be stupid to let Kearney go.

Diamondmaker

its not as choice so far as I know based on the workings of IRFU. They control the players in a way ( fortunately for Ireland ) in a way unlike the RFU etc....
RK is going and we have to "make do" with Luke!!

Shane is also coming home too. <ay be a good man for when our 3 hookers misfire!!;)

May play a coaching roll in future....