Match Thread: Leinster Rugby vs Ospreys, Saturday 14th Sept 18:15, RTE2

Mahatma Geansai

Sickening finish, but a draw against the Ospreys isn't a bad result all things considered.

Artful_Badger

Billy86 wrote: »

That final penalty was a bit odd, wasn't physically possible to retreat in that time. Wouldn't mind seeing a replay for the kick, too.

He wasnt on the mark either I dont think. Ref should have called it back.

awec

What's happening? What's happening?

Be descriptive in your posts dammit! :pac:

Quint2010

Sorry but that is the most shocking biased one sided refereeing performances I have ever seen. Absolutely shocking. He reffed one side at the scrum and gave every 50:50 call to The Ospreys. I am disgusted.

Hagz

Sure Biggar would have nailed it either way.

Podge_irl

Hagz wrote: »

Leinster player not rolling away, and then we weren't 10 metres.

He didn't just not roll away, he bloody dived into the back of the ruck to get in the way. Utterly brainless.

errlloyd

Lads seemed to be appealing for him to go upstairs on the kick at the end. Crowd behind the goal seemed certain he missed.

Tox56

The pen was for Denton going off his feet

Artful_Badger

awec wrote: »

What's happening? What's happening?

Be descriptive in your posts dammit! :pac:

Its all gone wrong, its all gone wrong !

Leinster gave away a penalty last kick of the game and Biggar knocked it over to draw the game.

19543261

This could not have gone better! Showed enough promise to leave something to be desired, but didnt disappoint. My whistle is very well wet.

jjjd

Draw great result from a Munster perspective. 2 points clear at the top of the table after just 2 games.

P_1

Disappointed with the referee and some of his more bizarre interpretations of the rules of rugby more than anything about that match.

Quint2010

jjjd wrote: »

Draw great result from a Munster perspective. 2 points clear at the top of the table after just 2 games.

Hilarious. You just cheered me up no end with that post..

Kayless

Quint2010 wrote: »

Sorry but that is the most shocking biased one sided refereeing performances I have ever seen. Absolutely shocking. He reffed one side at the scrum and gave every 50:50 call to The Ospreys. I am disgusted.

I have to agree, Welsh referee after all also thought Leinster were the better team throughout, they should have won

Was this the Os first team? if so not a bad result for Leinster

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience

Wow, McGrath, hold on until I hop on the bandwagon. Haven't seen him play much but he looks like he could be world class. Even Healy must be getting worried. We've a great selection of looseheads in this country now

Murphy was very good too, serious pace from the back of the scrum

Anyone think Godman may well have a good chance of usurping Darcy? Seems Darcy isn't all together suited for the crash ball role O'Connor has him doing

What did ye make of the last penalty? i thought there was nothing wrong with it

Billy86

Artful_Badger wrote: »

He wasnt on the mark either I dont think. Ref should have called it back.

I only saw the last 20 minutes or so and don't have too much invested in Leinster so I don't feel this is a "charged" comment - but that was some incredibly one-sided refereeing. It really did come over as if he was just looking for excuses and ways to help out Ospreys at times ("at times" being, nearly all of the time).

.ak

Didn't think there was much wrong with the ref from the stands.... Can't understand how Cronin was sinbinned tho

Swiwi.

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience wrote: »

Wow, McGrath, hold on until I hop on the bandwagon. Haven't seen him play much but he looks like he could be world class. Even Healy must be getting worried. We've a great selection of looseheads in this country now

Murphy was very good too, serious pace from the back of the scrum

Anyone think Godman may well have a good chance of usurping Darcy? Seems Darcy isn't all together suited for the crash ball role O'Connor has him doing

What did ye make of the last penalty? i thought there was nothing wrong with it

No, Healy is not worried. Leinster are just delighted they have a world class LH, and a decent backup. Murphy went to sleep at the start of the 2nd half, but was very dynamic in the last 20. I thought Darcy was OK tonight.

Tox56

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience wrote: »

What did ye make of the last penalty? i thought there was nothing wrong with it

My issue is not so much with that pen, but the scrum that it came from. There was an Ospreys early drive that was clear as day, Leinster had been penalised for it so often they were yellow carded, how that wasn't worthy of at least a free kick was baffling

shuffol

How long does Healys contract run until, I can see another Sexton like situation developing where Healy gets a massive offer from France and the IRFU content with the depth at the provinces dont fight too hard to keep him.

Swiwi.

.ak wrote: »

Didn't think there was much wrong with the ref from the stands.... Can't understand how Cronin was sinbinned tho

Any pearls of wisdom re individual performances, since you had the advantage (lucky bastard) of watching the game live?

Podge_irl

shuffol wrote: »

How long does Healys contract run until, I can see another Sexton like situation developing where Healy gets a massive offer from France and the IRFU content with the depth at the provinces dont fight too hard to keep him.

Much more important to have two quality looseheads than flyhalves though.

Hagz

shuffol wrote: »

How long does Healys contract run until, I can see another Sexton like situation developing where Healy gets a massive offer from France and the IRFU content with the depth at the provinces dont fight too hard to keep him.

2016. Shows you how happy he is to stick around.

Artful_Badger

.ak wrote: »

Didn't think there was much wrong with the ref from the stands.... Can't understand how Cronin was sinbinned tho

Had previously given a final warning for infringing at the scrum and Cronin was the the sacrificial lamb as the ref genuinely hadnt a clue what was going on but wasnt about to penalise Ospreys on their feed on their try line.

vienne86

Just back from the game. Can anyone tell me why Cronin was put in the bin?

ColmH81

shuffol wrote: »

How long does Healys contract run until, I can see another Sexton like situation developing where Healy gets a massive offer from France and the IRFU content with the depth at the provinces dont fight too hard to keep him.

I'm more worried about O'Brien and Heaslip being mentioned with France.. Their contracts run out the end of this season...

Would the French clubs not take someone like Devon Toner instead??

.ak

Swiwi. wrote: »

Any pearls of wisdom re individual performances, since you had the advantage (lucky bastard) of watching the game live?

I thought fanning was woeful, one thing you miss from the tv is positioning and he completely lost the plot on restarts in the 2nd half and shot off his wing. Directly cost us a try.

In the last 20 I thought Murphy was immense, but I wouldn't blame him too much for going missing at the beginning of the second half as he'd gone off as a blood injury.

Jennings had a horrible first half but a fairly handy second.

Gopperth was our best player, easily. Ran a little cold in the last 20 but our hand was played with the Hudson injury. I would've swapped him to FB and see what Madigan could bring in the last few as first receiver.

Darcys off the ball work was fantastic, particularly in defence where he put a lot of people into position. Cleaned up a lot of ball and his distribution was clear and precise.

McGraths work in the loose was massive but I'll reserve judgment in his scrummaging until I see replays - our scrums were wheeling before the ball was fed and that must've been down to a prop not the hooker.

danthefan

This is a result of not being a professional rugby player for most of his adult life so I'm not having a go at him or anything but you can see Fanning doesn't have the physical conditioning that the rest of the squad does, imo.

Hagz

Christ Almight, I'm only after just finding out that the Jones props aren't actually brothers. I seriously thought they were brothers this whole time..:o

durkadurka

As soon as those hairy bastards came on at half time it spelled trouble