Leinster v dragons Friday, 7.35, RDS, RTE 2

durkadurka

LEINSTER:
15: Isa Nacewa
14: Fionn Carr
13: Brendan Macken
12: Eoin O'Malley
11: David Kearney
10: Ian Madigan
9: Cillian Willis
1: Heinke van der Merwe
2: Richardt Strauss
3: Jamie Hagan
4: Damian Browne
5: Devin Toner
6: Kevin McLaughlin
7: Dominic Ryan
8: Rhys Ruddock CAPTAIN
REPLACEMENTS:
16: Aaron Dundon
17: Jack McGrath
18: Jack O'Connell / Nathan White
19: Mark Flanagan
20: Leo Auva'a
21: John Cooney
22: Mat Berquist
23: Darren Hudson
http://www.rabodirectpro12.com/news/10995.php

Can't wait to get back to the RDS!!

CIARAN_BOYLE

Dragons Squad for Leinster
15. Martyn Thomas, 14. Adam Hughes, 13. Tom Riley, 12. Pat Leach, 11. Mike Poole, 10. Jason Tovey, 9. Joe Bedford, 1. Phil Price, 2. Tom Willis, 3. Ben Castle, 4. Adam Jones, 5. Rob Sidoli, 6. Andrew Coombs, 7. Gavin Thomas, 8. Hugo Ellis
Replacements
16. Rhys Buckley, 17. Nathan Williams, 18. Dan Way, 19. Lewis Evans, 20. Jevon Groves, 21. Wayne Evans, 22. Steffan Jones, 23. Jamie Smith

EDIT looking at the Leinster team am surprised to see Sykes isn't back yet. Will be interesting to see EOM at 12. His usual position is 13.

durkadurka

By the way in case you didnt see it on the Leinster thread there's a free ticket going for this - PM me.

decisions

Lets hope its not a repeat of last week.

vinny chase

Looking forward to this big time tomorrow night. Was away for most of the friendlies so first live Leinster game of the season!

Love to see Brendan Macken have a big game in the centre, tonnes of potential.

durkadurka

vinny chase wrote: »

Love to see Brendan Macken have a big game in the centre, tonnes of potential.

I'm liking your metricising of 'tons'!

durkadurka

Looking like a nice night in ballsbridge.

CatFromHue

durkadurka wrote: »

Looking like a nice night in ballsbridge.

Really cos it looks like its going to bucket down out in Dun Laoghaire!

PhatPiggins

Scrappy Leinster win in a low scoring game would be my prediction for this one.

I'm happy that Willis is getting a swansong for Leinster at the end of his career. Had so much potential at schools level, seemed to struggle with the hype when he first turned pro. Genuine sound lad though, good luck to him.

CIARAN_BOYLE

Hook is just after saying EOM should be in NZ ahead of Paddy Wallace

CouchSmart

Any streams?

markc1184

Nacewa is an absolute tank when he's running with the ball in hand! I'd hate to be on the end of one of those hits!!

CIARAN_BOYLE

Madigan hasn't managed to overtake Nacewa as a place kicker over the summer.

Leinster 3 Dragons 0

PhatPiggins

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

Hook is just after saying EOM should be in NZ ahead of Paddy Wallace

He'll be saying Brendan Macken should be there instead of Earls by the end of the game (and he's sixth coffee)

Going to be 2/3 yellows in this game

BBDBB

CouchSmart wrote: »

Any streams?

in the streams thread, just put one there, no guarantee of quality tho

PhatPiggins

CouchSmart wrote: »

Any streams?

its on rte player

PhatPiggins

Loving the uber aggression from McLaughlin so far this season

CIARAN_BOYLE

PhatPiggins wrote: »

Loving the uber aggression from McLaughlin so far this season

The man has a point to prove

Bad lineout work from Toner there

PhatPiggins

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

The man has a point to prove

Bad lineout work from Toner there

I presume he's on stand by for the WC ?

BBDBB

great run by Carr

hmmmmm, no try on first look

wixfjord

D Kearney looking really good again. Madigan's passing is brilliant.

We're not great again though.

CIARAN_BOYLE

wixfjord wrote: »

Madigan's passing is brilliant.

Thats a strength of his. People have suggested that he move to SH but I don't think its viable really.

BBDBB

wixfjord wrote: »

D Kearney looking really good again. Madigan's passing is brilliant.

We're not great again though.

ahh your only saying that to cheer me up

Its good to see Leinster trying carry on spinning it with pace and running straight, its simple but highly effective

PhatPiggins

wixfjord wrote: »

D Kearney looking really good again. Madigan's passing is brilliant.

We're not great again though.

Hex, successful

Leinster looking very ropey here. Take Nacewa out of that team and they're 6 points down

wixfjord

Think I heard "eye socket out of place" there!

phog

wixfjord wrote: »

Think I heard "eye socket out of place" there!

for a Leinster player now?

PhatPiggins

phog wrote: »

for a Leinster player now?

Cillian Willis but he played on

Burgo

phog wrote: »

for a Leinster player now?

Willis was complaining about his eye just before half time,and hagans eye looks pretty bloodshot.

CIARAN_BOYLE

Leinster have a secure lineout?? typical hookism

profitius

Poor game so far. They need to have a bit more patience and settle down a bit.

phog

I thought I saw the doc looking at one of them but didnt realise it was his eye. You'd have a certain amount of concern now after the last couple of weeks, hope he's ok.

siltirocker

Why Car isn't involved with Ireland i don't know.

CIARAN_BOYLE

phog wrote: »

I thought I saw the doc looking at one of them but didnt realise it was his eye. You'd have a certain amount of concern now after the last couple of weeks, hope he's ok.

I thought the doc was checking for concussion

siltirocker wrote: »

Why Car isn't involved with Ireland i don't know.

Because he played for Connacht. If he gets into the 23 for HEC matches at Leinster then I will be a bit surprised.

between competing with Kearney, Nacewa, Fitz, and Horgan to start in the back three. McFadden will take a bench spot due to utility. Where does Carr really fit in, for Leinster. Never mind Ireland when Trimble, Bowe and Earls are added to the competition on the wing.

Should be ahead of Darragh Hurley who started for Ireland select XV against Connacht though.

PhatPiggins

siltirocker wrote: »

Why Car isn't involved with Ireland i don't know.

He's too fast, too elusive and scores too many tries :mad:

Down with that sort of thing

wixfjord

Pure class.

Judgement Day

Madigannnnnn!!!!

tolosenc

Phenomenal.

profitius

Great try from Madigan!

MugMugs

Well done Madigan.

phog

two good tries there.

phog

Try for Dragons, poor defence there for Leinster.

porterbelly

siltirocker wrote: »

Why Car isn't involved with Ireland i don't know.

Form with Connacht doesn't count. Every journo mentioning how Hagan should be in NZ as well, fact is he didn't get a look in last year because he wasn't playing for the big 3.

CIARAN_BOYLE

porterbelly wrote: »

Form with Connacht doesn't count. Every journo mentioning how Hagan should be in NZ as well, fact is he didn't get a look in last year because he wasn't playing for the big 3.

It might be different this season if a Connacht guy goes very well in the HEC he should get his chance.

The excuse for not giving Connacht players there shot was they are doing well but they had no high level exposure. Connacht lads will get their shot at HEC this season.

tolosenc

The offload there from Berquist!

wixfjord

Cooney's passing looking a little ropey again.

tolosenc

Still too many errors.

wixfjord

Bit surprised with all these subs, I would have left Willis and Madigan to go for the 4 tries.

Hagan might be better than Ross already

wixfjord

It's certainly not Steffan Jones time Darragh, considering that's Jamie Smith.

wixfjord

Holy **** Jack McGrath is ****ing massive!

CIARAN_BOYLE

Berqvist doesn't look good