RD Pro 12: Benetton Treviso v. Leinster, Sat 26 Nov 14:00 (RTE Two)

irishbucsfan

Benetton Treviso: 15 Luke McLean, 14 Benjamin De Jager, 13 Tommaso Benvenuti, 12 Alberto Sgarbi, 11 Brendan Williams, 10 Kristopher Burton, 9 Tobias Botes, 8 Robert Barbieri, 7 Alessandro Zanni, 6 Paul Derbyshire, 5 Valerio Bernabò, 4 Antonio Pavanello (c), 3 Lorenzo Cittadini, 2 Enrico Ceccato, 1 Michele Rizzo.
Replacements: 16 Franco Sbaraglini, 17 Matteo Muccignat, 18 Ignacio Fernandez Rouyet, 19 Benjamin Vermaak, 20 Manoa Vosawai, 21 Francesco Minto, 22 Fabio Semenzato, 23 Alberto Di Bernardo.

Leinster: 15 Luke Fitzgerald, 14 Fergus McFadden, 13 Eoin O'Malley, 12 Gordon D'Arcy, 11 Fionn Carr, 10 Ian Madigan, 9 Eoin Reddan, 8 Leo Auva'a, 7 Shane Jennings (c), 6 Rhys Ruddock, 5 Damien Browne, 4 Devin Toner, 3 Jamie Hagan, 2 Sean Cronin, 1 Cian Healy.
Replacements: 16 Aaron Dundon, 17 Jack McGrath, 18 Nathan White, 19 Kevin McLaughlin, 20 Jamie Heaslip, 21 Isaac Boss, 22 Neol Reid, 23 Brendan Macken.

planetrugby.com wrote:

Form: Benetton Treviso's four game winning run in the RaboDirect PRO12 ended at the hands of Edinburgh in round eight. The Italians won the last time they faced Irish opposition: 23-12 against Ulster at Ravenhill on 7 October. Leinster are unbeaten in their last seven matches in all competitions since their 19-23 reversal at home to Glasgow in round three of the RaboDirect PRO12. The Leinstermen's only away defeat this season came on the opening weekend against Ospreys in Swansea. Leinster have won their last four encounters with adversaries from Italy. Each side won its respective home games when the two teams clashed in this tournament last season.

Date: Saturday, November 26
Kick-off: 14:00 (15:00 local time)
Venue: Stadio di Monigo
Referee: George Clancy
Assistant referees: Stefano Traversi, Matteo Liperni
Television match official: Stefano Marrama

Thanos

Well as expected Joe had to make some changes and rest some of the Irish lads.
Must say I am a little surprised to see Luke as 15, I hope this does not backfire, last time he was playing there he did not have a good time and his confidence took a hit.

theKramer

Thanos wrote: »

Must say I am a little surprised to see Luke as 15, I hope this does not backfire, last time he was playing there he did not have a good time and his confidence took a hit.

Its a lot different playing him against Benneton Treviso in a Rabo game than Kidney starting him against Italy in the 6N's in one of his first games back. Would be good to see him do well.

Is EOM preferred at 13 ahead of Fergus?

irishbucsfan

theKramer wrote: »

Is EOM preferred at 13 ahead of Fergus?

He's getting another chance. If he plays like he did in September/October I think he could lose his place again, but if he plays like he did last weekend then hopefully he can nail down the spot for the season.

McFadden should be much brighter on the wing imo.

durkadurka

Bit disappointed not to see Luke at 12. Seems like the experiment during the world cup was just expedience really.

Otherwise a team capable of winning out there.

ambid

durkadurka wrote: »

Bit disappointed not to see Luke at 12. Seems like the experiment during the world cup was just expedience really.

Otherwise a team capable of winning out there.

Maybe. Or maybe Schmidt wanted to surround Madigan with highly experienced players in Raddan and Darcy for a tough away match. Clearly Fitzgerald is also experienced, but less so than Darcy at 12.

.ak

Yeah interesting call on Fitzgerald at 15. Hope it works. He's looked great under high ball at times recently. In fairness to him he wasn't playing well at all in any position during the 6n period.

FYI 15:00 is local time, so 14:00 Irish time.

armchaircoach

Also with Isa being rested it will be interesting to see if Madigan or McFadden take the kicks.

justsomebloke

.ak wrote: »

FYI 15:00 is local time, so 14:00 Irish time.

thread title updated

Burgo

armchaircoach wrote: »

Also with Isa being rested it will be interesting to see if Madigan or McFadden take the kicks.

Actually never thought about that! McFadden did a decent job the last time he had kicking duties, so I'd be happy enough to see him do it again.

Honey-ec

Anyone know if this is being televised at all?

vinny chase

Honey-ec wrote: »

Anyone know if this is being televised at all?

It says RTE Two in the thread title!

Kinger83

Honey-ec wrote: »

Anyone know if this is being televised at all?

There's coverage of the game on RTE2.

Farold

First Leinster game to be televised by RTE so far?

Send your complaints to complaints@rte.ie

Really disgraceful effort at bidding.

irishbucsfan

I wonder how well the OLSC RTE boycott will go this weekend :pac:

.ak

Anyone know of any decent pubs that'll show this near grafton st tomorr?ow

CIARAN_BOYLE

.ak wrote: »

Anyone know of any decent pubs that'll show this near grafton st tomorr?ow

Sinnotts to the side of Stephens Green usually shows games. They have 7 screens show if they aren't planning on showing it they will probably show it on one if you ask.

Jess16

.ak wrote: »

Anyone know of any decent pubs that'll show this near grafton st tomorr?ow

Yup, The Porterhouse on Nassau St usually does and I know it's a little further down but O'Donoghues on Merrion Row is great for a match

chancer12

Any highlights being shown later? Have to work in the a/noon

wp_rathead

chancer12 wrote: »

Any highlights being shown later? Have to work in the a/noon

Think tg4 will show highlights after or before the Connacht game, could be mistaken though

anyone know if Against the Head will ever be revived on rte? Used to be the one time rte bothered to hire Gerry Thornley for rugby analysis

.ak

Good work lads. Will defo strategically plan my 'shopping' route with the missus tomorrow thanks to Lads Intelligence(TM).

Richard Hillman

To avoid confusion its 2.00 kick off Irish time, 3.00 local italian time. I got confused when I seen the op.

irishbucsfan

Richard Hillman wrote: »

To avoid confusion its 2.00 kick off Irish time, 3.00 local italian time. I got confused when I seen the op.

You're right I had them the wrong way around! Sorry.

Anyway I've been roped into going to the chelsea - wolves game, so updates on here would be much appreciated. Don't think there will be many leinster fans in the shed end!

durkadurka

Very handy try

DDC1990

7-0 after 40 seconds.

F-ck Me!

Au'va.

thomond2006

Auva'a in after 47 seconds, Treviso dropped the ball from the kick off and Leinster made it look easy.

Burgo

Try in the first thirty seconds! gwan Auva'a!

McFadden taking the place kicks

Treviso 0 - 7 Leinster

jack01986

Auva'a in under the posts under a minute. Shocking defence for the try.

copacetic

thomond2006 wrote: »

Auva'a in after 47 seconds, Treviso dropped the ball from the kick off and Leinster made it look easy.

29s more like!
Full back didn't look too interested in attempting a tackle!

thomond2006

copacetic wrote: »

29s more like!
Full back didn't look too interested in attempting a tackle!

Aye, pretty crap defence alright.

molloyjh

3-7 pen Treviso.

Richard Hillman

Eventful start. 7-3

thomond2006

Does McFadden normally place kick ahead of Madigan?

anywhere to watch this for the ex pats?

Taco Corp

Didn't recognise Hagan without the beard

Burgo

thomond2006 wrote: »

Does McFadden normally place kick ahead of Madigan?

Yeah he does, did last season too.

Taco Corp

Carr try! Some great move by Leinster. Brilliant start

thomond2006

Great try, scored by Carr.

Madigan's crisp pass to O'Malley was key to it. Terrible defence though, Treviso are at sea.

Podge_irl

Making it look easy.

So much for my 7/4 bet on Treviso!

molloyjh

Another ridiculously easy try for Carr. Nice pass from Fitzy though.

ThisRegard

This is going to get boring pretty quickly.

ambid

Sa Nacewa became a dad again during the week according to RTÉ. Maybe he wasn't picked because he's on paternity leave.

Taco Corp

Burgo wrote: »

Yeah he does, did last season too.

Madigan needs to get himself the kicking duties if he ever wants to wear the irish 10 jersey

ambid

thomond2006 wrote: »

Great try, scored by Carr.

Madigan's crisp pass to O'Malley was key to it. Terrible defence though, Treviso are at sea.

Madigan is looking like a real prospect alright. He'll get plenty of gametime too which will help his development.

thomond2006

Botes penalty, 6-14.

Good game so far.

thomond2006

Leinster pushing up out wide in defence, Treviso don't look comfortable forcing it.

9-14 now

justsomebloke

Another penalty given away by Leinster 9-14 leinster

molloyjh

Treviso coming back into it now. Another penalty to bring it to 9-14. Leinster need to watch the infringing. Ruddock did well during that passage though. He prevented an offload in the tackle when they had numbers. There was a try on there for certain.

durkadurka

That pen looked awful!

ongarite

Nice penalty from McFadden.

Burgo

durkadurka wrote: »

That pen looked awful!

It went over and thats what matters :pac: