Leinster V Glasgow - Sat 25th RDS (KO: 7.35pm)

Timothy Bryce

The Leinster team to face the Glasgow Warriors in Saturday's Magners League clash at the RDS (KO: 7.35pm) has been named...
Brian O'Driscoll, Luke Fitzgerald and Jamie Heaslip are named in the starting line-up for the visit of the Scottish side, though Rob Kearney misses the game through illness. Fitzgerald takes his place on the left wing, while Gordon D'Arcy will partner O'Driscoll at centre.

In the pack, Devin Toner starts at second row and will line up alongside Malcolm O'Kelly. Rocky Elsom joins Heaslip in a back-row which also includes Shane Jennings, who captains the side.

Leo Cullen is named on a strong replacements bench which includes the likes of Shane Horgan and Jonathan Sexton.

Over 13, 500 tickets have been sold for Leinster's penultimate home game of the season. Specially discounted Stand tickets are still on sale HERE ONLINE from €5. Tickets are also on sale from usual Ticketmaster outlets as well as the Spar and Leinster Rugby store in Donnybrook. Tickets will also be available from Ticketmaster vans at the RDS from 4.30pm this Saturday.

Meanwhile, Saturday will see the regular 'Family Day' action on the sand arena (beside the Leinster Supporters Bar) up until kick off. This will feature the Canterbury Roadshow where young players can test their skills, face painting from the FM104 Bugs and Leo the Lion. The pre-match and half-time entertainment will feature up and coming Tallaght band Bi-Polar Empire, as well as half-time mini rugby between Bective Rangers and Cill Dara. The North East Under-16 regional
side, who won the Shane Horgan Inter Area Cup, will also be in attendance on the day.
LEINSTER:

15: Girvan Dempsey
14: Isa Nacewa
13: Brian O'Driscoll
12: Gordon D'Arcy
11: Luke Fitzgerald
10: Felipe Contepomi
9: Chris Whitaker

1: Cian Healy
2: Bernard Jackman
3: Stan Wright
4: Devin Toner
5: Malcolm O'Kelly
6: Rocky Elsom
7: Shane Jennings CAPTAIN
8: Jamie Heaslip

REPLACEMENTS:

16: John Fogarty
17: Ronan McCormack
18: Leo Cullen
19: Sean O'Brien
20: Chris Keane
21: Jonathan Sexton
22: Shane Horgan

crisco10

Worrying about Kearney's illness. Apparently it's the mumps. Which would put him out of the Munster match probably. If it is the mumps, i hope the rest of the squad are vaccinated!

phog

crisco10 wrote: »

Worrying about Kearney's illness. Apparently it's the mumps. Which would put him out of the Munster match probably. If it is the mumps, i hope the rest of the squad are vaccinated!

Hopefully it's not the mumps and as you say if it is he'd want to stay well clear of the rest of the team.

Wishing him well.

Edited to add:
Just checked up on mumps, it's contagious so could potentially wipe out the squad, what would happen next week, ERC re-schedule the game???????

damselnat

crisco10 wrote: »

Worrying about Kearney's illness. Apparently it's the mumps.

This has been going around UCD for ages now,and they only started offering MMR this week. It's that contagious you'd hope everyone's vaccinated!! Fingers crossed it's not

Timothy Bryce

damselnat wrote: »

This has been going around UCD for ages now,and they only started offering MMR this week. It's that contagious you'd hope everyone's vaccinated!! Fingers crossed it's not

Was he training with UCD for their AIL game last weekend? I've heard truck loads of punters up there have the mumps!

anonymous_joe

crisco10 wrote: »

Worrying about Kearney's illness. Apparently it's the mumps. Which would put him out of the Munster match probably. If it is the mumps, i hope the rest of the squad are vaccinated!

Fúck the Munster match, just hope the guy's ok. It can be fairly serious after all.

damselnat wrote: »

This has been going around UCD for ages now,and they only started offering MMR this week. It's that contagious you'd hope everyone's vaccinated!! Fingers crossed it's not

But they did send an email about 6 months telling us it was a problem in their defence.

damselnat

anonymous_joe wrote: »

But they did send an email about 6 months telling us it was a problem in their defence.

Far too many problems in their defence!

anonymous_joe

damselnat wrote: »

Far too many problems in their defence!

Ah I know it's a disgrace.

And given that a huge proportion of our young rugby players are at UCD it's a worry for the larger squad picture.

Good ol' UCD. Glad I'm finished there today. :pac:

damselnat

anonymous_joe wrote: »

Good ol' UCD. Glad I'm finished there today. :pac:

That's if you can get through the security! (and the rivers...)

Anyone know the Warriors xv? (too lazy to look myself )

accensi0n

Paul O'Donohue should be in the squad, has been more effective than Chris Keane whenever he's come on.

anonymous_joe

damselnat wrote: »

That's if you can get through the security! (and the rivers...)

Anyone know the Warriors xv? (too lazy to look myself )

True that.

Haven't seen a Glasgow side named yet, at least not on their site or BBC.

Glad to see Jennings as captain. He's shown some good form lately.

funky penguin

Is Hogan injured or something? Brilliant to see Toner starting, but how can MC justify this?

Keane on the bench? Where's POD? Where's McFadden? These are players who have proven they want to play, and their efforts go unrewarded.

As a side note, I really really really really really hope nothing happens to BOD.

barnesd

accensi0n wrote: »

Paul O'Donohue should be in the squad, has been more effective than Chris Keane whenever he's come on.

I'm hoping (praying) that POD has been released to play in the AIL semi rather than Cheika thinking Keane is a better option.

Podge_irl

funky penguin wrote: »

Is Hogan injured or something? Brilliant to see Toner starting, but how can MC justify this?

Toner is better? I've been surprised he wasn't ahead of Hogan for the last few months. He went from starting to not even benching around Christmas for some unfathomable reason.

Rourky

crisco10 wrote: »

Worrying about Kearney's illness. Apparently it's the mumps. Which would put him out of the Munster match probably. If it is the mumps, i hope the rest of the squad are vaccinated!

How do you know its mumps? Wouldn't Kearney and most of the other students at UCD have been vaccinated as children? It would explain why he wasn't at the Aras meeting McAleese etc earlier in the week though. If the younger ones haven't been vaccinated then I imagine it's unlikely that the rest of team will have been vaccinated.

Hope he gets better soon.

funky penguin

Podge_irl wrote: »

Toner is better? I've been surprised he wasn't ahead of Hogan for the last few months. He went from starting to not even benching around Christmas for some unfathomable reason.

Sorry, I didn't explain that properly. I'm wondering how MC can justify suddenly jumping Toner to a starting position, when he's barely made the bench this year. Why the sudden 180?

I agree - I think Toner is better - but it just baffles the mind how MC is so inconsistent in his selections.

Podge_irl

funky penguin wrote: »

Sorry, I didn't explain that properly. I'm wondering how MC can justify suddenly jumping Toner to a starting position, when he's barely made the bench this year. Why the sudden 180?

I agree - I think Toner is better - but it just baffles the mind how MC is so inconsistent in his selections.

Ah right. In that case I haven't a ****ing clue. I long ago stopped trying to understand Cheika's squad selections.

Soldie

Last hurrah of my season ticket!

Is VDL going to miss the Munster game, too?

barnesd

funky penguin wrote: »

Sorry, I didn't explain that properly. I'm wondering how MC can justify suddenly jumping Toner to a starting position, when he's barely made the bench this year. Why the sudden 180?

I agree - I think Toner is better - but it just baffles the mind how MC is so inconsistent in his selections.

Actually that's not necessarily true, Toner got a lot of gametime earlier in the season, including in the HEC. Dropped off the radar for a bit then, but now seems to be coming back into contention.

funky penguin

Meant this year as in 2009, sorry.

barnesd

funky penguin wrote: »

Meant this year as in 2009, sorry.

Ah, I see. I always just use 'year' and 'season' interchangeably when it comes to rugby. You're dead right so, and I did find it very odd that he just dropped off the radar.

HarryKeeper

Another day, another frustrating performance I think.

I think the half backs are poorly selected, would rather have Dr. Phil at 12 as preperation for next week. Worried about another implosion from the great man, and at least JS at 10 takes much of the pressure off him. JS is also a fine defender, likewise FC and BOD, whereas D'arcy has been very stand-offish defensively lately. In attack, D'arcy has been on a different wave lenght to everyone else, running into team mates, running away from support, and as a result, a lot of good opportunites are going astray for a variety of reasons. Still think D'arcy needs to be in the team, so I'd put him on the wing, with Luke at 11 and Rob at 15. We are so blunt in attack that something needs to be done to loosen it up, otherwise we've no chance next week.

Munster will pick Quinny, Wallace and Leamy which could play into Jennings' hands. I thought he played off the park by Niall Ronan, and the break down could be key.

Gone are the days when we would be almost guaranteed 5 points on a day like today.

soundsham

drunken leinter fans fail to stay silent for glasgow penalty kick 2mins into game
horrible to hear the shouting

hope they show more respect next week as rog slots em over

Stev_o

BOD's reaction to that try looks familiar.........

themont85

soundsham wrote: »

drunken leinter fans fail to stay silent for glasgow penalty kick 2mins into game
horrible to hear the shouting

hope they show more respect next week as rog slots em over

Its a couple of kids ffs, sorry they can't abide by the rules of match day as designated by Munster fans.

ScrubsfanChris

8-8

15 mins gone

bleg

themont85 wrote: »

Its a couple of kids ffs, sorry they can't abide by the rules of match day as designated by Munster fans.

apology accepted:P

Stev_o

Bit of obstruction by Jennings that only a 7 would do didn't get caught.

soundsham

themont85 wrote: »

Its a couple of kids ffs, sorry they can't abide by the rules of match day as designated by Munster fans.

apology accepted


hope they lay off the sauce next week tho.

just think its a better affair when respect is shown

wixfjord

soundsham wrote: »

apology accepted

bleg wrote: »

apology accepted:P

Oh you cheeky munster fans always one step ahead *ruffles hair*

Looks like leinster are putting a good bit of pace on the ball, and two step is only taking one step!

barnesd

There were kids in MP shouting at the Scarlets kicker too, stop being so sanctimonious.

Leinster very poor so far.

bleg

edinburgh winning the other match 19-17. 3 tries each

soundsham

barnesd wrote: »

There were kids in MP shouting at the Scarlets kicker too, stop being so sanctimonious.

Leinster very poor so far.

sorry don't think so on the noise,anyway 8-13

and on leinsters performance its pretty much same as last 4 games contepoemi's kicking poor from placed ball and from hand also

hope they step it up

and make a game of it too next week

Stev_o

For a 32 year old that's ridiculous pace. Good try.

juvenal

Just logged onto a stream - looked like a try there for Glasgow.

Who scored the Leinster try?

barnesd

soundsham wrote: »

sorry don't think so on the noise

I know so. Just a few, but they were very obvious. Now as I said, get off your high horse.

barnesd

juvenal wrote: »

Just logged onto a stream - looked like a try there for Glasgow.

Who scored the Leinster try?

Elsom did.

Leinster absolutely brutal up to this point.

soundsham

barnesd wrote: »

I know so. Just a few, but they were very obvious. Now as I said, get off your high horse.

look i was there

no noise promise

contepoemi funks o driscolls chip

flicks it back instead of catching it

poor knock on by d'arcy

thomond2006

score update??

soundsham

anyway 8-13

leinster against 14 men at the mo

Daithi BC

Still 8-13. Whitaker on for Keane. Stortoni in the bin for Glasgow.

D.S.

8-13 to Glasgow. Glasgow a man down. Leinster playing pretty sloppy stuff for me...

dreamer_ire

Edinburgh 22-17 up now

Lee Byrne just binned too

bleg

25-17 hopefully it stays this way and we'll be champions

dreamer_ire

Ospresy 27-25 up

soundsham

8 - 13 still

awful kick again by dr phil

bad lineouts have now been added to the 2nd half mix

big yawn...........more caffeine required

this is desparate drivel......will be on an early train back next week i'd say:)

soundsham

frustrated heaslip verbally abuses brown while leaving to go to sin bin
25 mins to go yawn

Funkstard

This is drivel.

soundsham

shaggy scores try, phil kicks 15-13

hope someone gets another try

big bet on +4 tries 11/10

wixfjord

Thats not a bad price hopefully theres one more in it. On this performance cant see leinster winning next week but there have been some good points and form will go out the window. Heaslip has had a good game before the yellow.

soundsham

ching ching

leinster are magic :rolleyes:

22-13 dr phil is on fire

munster shaking in the boots i'd say