Leinster vs NG Dragons, RDS, Sunday 3pm no TV

durkadurka

LEINSTER:

15. Dave Kearney
14. Fergus McFadden
13. Ben Te'o
12. Noel Reid
11. Darragh Fanning
10. Jimmy Gopperth
9. Luke McGrath
1. Michael Bent
2. Richardt Strauss
3. Tadhg Furlong
4. Tom Denton
5. Kane Douglas
6. Dominic Ryan
7. Shane Jennings CAPTAIN
8. Jack Conan

16. Aaron Dundon
17. Peter Dooley
18. Jamie Hagan
19. Mike McCarthy
20. Josh Van Der Flier
21. John Cooney
22. Cathal Marsh
23. Luke Fitzgerald

DRAGONS:

Some bunch of randomers.

Referee: Ben Whitehouse (WRU, 3rd competition game)
Assistant Referees: Stuart Gaffikin, Oisin Quinn (both IRFU)
Citing Commissioner: Tim Lowry (IRFU)


Taking my two young kids to this so probably won't get to see that much of it.

It's a pretty decent selection and I hope Luke gets a good half hour.

High hopes of a decent win and good chance of a BP.

I wonder will Luke Fitz and Mike Mac come into the starting line up now that they weren't brought in yesterday or will they have missed too much prep during the week?

molloyjh

Just about to head out for a spot of Sunday brunch before the game. Nervous about this one. We should win it, and we've had enough prep time to do so well. But the last time we were in that position was ahead of the Treviso game.... :eek:

.ak

molloyjh wrote: »

Just about to head out for a spot of Sunday brunch before the game. Nervous about this one. We should win it, and we've had enough prep time to do so well. But the last time we were in that position was ahead of the Treviso game.... :eek:

Ah the games aren't comparable. Only question here is do we get a tbp or not.

big dan

I've got two free tickets for this match if anyone wants them. Let me know asap and I will email them as pdf so they can be printed off.

errlloyd

Hey Big Dan, I think I would like those tickets if I can make it work. Shall I pm you an email address?

big dan

Yep, send me your email address and I'll forward them to you.

.ak

Just a reminder... No posting scores from other games in this thread... Or else it gets the hose again.

Ah.. just read "no tv" and I had a both monitors all set up to go. Over the Scotland thread so!

.ak

Yellow card for dragons. Strauss off with a knock.

Leinster cutting them apart with ease.

Dave Kearney bumped a lock! Ha.

.ak

Awful ref...

bunnyarmstrong

What was the card for?

.ak

Dragons try, conversion to come. Couple of missed tackles in the build up.

Two leinster players ko'd in attempting to stop the try

.ak

bunnyarmstrong wrote: »

What was the card for?

Couldn't tell you. Dodgy or high tackle, didn't see it.

.ak

Denton and Reid off with concusion

.ak

Luke FITZ and maccer on

Buer

We've lost 3 players to injury in the opening 10 minutes?!

bunnyarmstrong

It's all sounding a little comical!

Burgo

.ak wrote: »

Luke FITZ and maccer on

start praying lads.

Big Nelly

what the score?

Peregrine

Big Nelly wrote: »

what the score?

3-7 to the Dragons, I think.

bunnyarmstrong

3-7 to dragons.

.ak

Strauss off fully now with con

.ak

Another scrum pen in exact same spot 6-7

Burgo

Jesus how many injuries already?

matthew8

10-6 to Dragons at half time. Dragons have played 20 minutes with 14 men.

.ak

Ref really poor at this level. Missed countless offsides, obstructions and tacklers not releasing. Breakdown is really poor.

Our own fault tho - I'd be playing offside if he isn't going to ping them. Also Jennings needs to be in his ear.

mr. pleasant

so, at HT we are losing at home against a dragons team that played 20 min with 14. amazing.

Stheno

Three players off with concussion already?
Are they just walloping into each other?

.ak

We're trying too much inside our half. Letting the dragons into the game. There's a tbp out there if we play in their half.

Fitzgerald having an outstanding game.

mr. pleasant

real pity it's not on TV, sounds like we're missing out...

kingofthekong

Jesus if we can't put a Dragons team playing with 14 men for 20 mins away we are playing pretty bad.

.ak

kingofthekong wrote: »

Jesus if we can't put a Dragons team playing with 14 men for 20 mins away we are playing pretty bad.

We're not really. It's hard to explain, but the dragons have played smart rugby by keeping us pinned in our half then living off our mistakes. If we can play smarter we'll break them.

molloyjh

View from the terrace:

Poor kicking from our own 22 with no chase has allowed a huge amount of the game to be played in our half. At 3-7 down Dragons conceded their second yellow and the call came from the sidelines not to kick the penalty to bring it to 6-7 but to go down the line. We got nothing from the subsequent attack and Dragons got a penalty to relieve the pressure.

Some good individual performances but as a imunit we've been very poor. That call from the sidelines stood out as the worst moment in the half for me though. And now it's raining...

dregin

mr. pleasant wrote: »

real pity it's not on TV, sounds like we're missing out...

Sounds like the citing officer might be missing out too...

molloyjh

.ak wrote: »

We're not really. It's hard to explain, but the dragons have played smart rugby by keeping us pinned in our half.

Our kicking game has done that.

Peregrine

Is Fitz playing at 12?

Journeyman_1

Keep the updates coming lads!

.ak

Absolutely delicious line break from T'eo who then switches with Luke... But there's a knock on just as he hits the try line. Would've been a super try

.ak

Nim wrote: »

Is Fitz playing at 12?

No teo 12 and Fitz 13 but they're switching sometimes

molloyjh

Lovely break from Dave in the middle of the park but another knock on ends the move.

matthew8

15 minutes left Dragons lead 13-9.

Journeyman_1

Sounds like inaccuracies are killing us again.
score?

molloyjh

Hooray! Leinster try in the corner from McFadden after another good break from Te'o.

Bad weekend to be dropping points

edit: nice!

.ak

Ben teo with a lovely line break, good gives to Cooney, grubber into the corner, Dave Kearney pounces and try. No conversion

molloyjh

Missed conversion. Apologies Dave got the try. 14-13 now.

.ak

Cooney has been a big improvement imo

Clegg

Dave Kearney scores Try in corner. Gopperth misses conversion.

Luke mc Grath subbed off. Was very poor. Passing around the ankles and killed some attacking chances because of it.

matthew8

Dragons lead 16-14.

.ak

Woeful call by linesman on the restart, dragons get a line out and get a penalty infront of posts
14-16