Leinster vs Glasgow, RDS, 27/3/15

Buer

Scrappy start to the game.

Leinster make a mess of their first line out. Denton secures the second one nicely that goes into a good maul and penalty.

Skid X

Who was Nigel Owens talking to at the start, when he said "How's the old Man? is he well?"

Buer

Line speed from Glasgow is impressive. They look very up for it.

Buer

Poor call from Owens, the ball was completely out and well beyond the hindmost. Was poor from Glasgow carrier, actually.

corny

Serious lack of work rate at that maul. Token efforts.

mr. pleasant

Does TG4 stream this? I can only get GAA on their player?

connemara man

Terrible defence

case885

Skid X wrote:

Who was Nigel Owens talking to at the start, when he said "How's the old Man? is he well?"

Hogg I think, a few calls may go his way

SaveOurLyric

Oh Lordy....

Crash

WTF Jennings. He gave up on that one.

Buer

That's utterly awful defending.

We look like a team that has given up on the season.

Poor from Reddan and Kirchner on Hogg.

Irlandczyk

Jesus... What an absolute ****ing mess we are...

errlloyd

To be fair to them, I've given on the season, why should they keep caring

Irlandczyk

errlloyd wrote: »

To be fair to them, I've given on the season, why should they keep caring

Because they're a professional sports team?

errlloyd

Irlandczyk wrote: »

Because they're a professional sports team?

My post was somewhat tongue in cheek.

awec

This guy hit the deck like a sack of potatoes. Completely out of it before he even hit the ground.

Buer

errlloyd wrote: »

To be fair to them, I've given on the season, why should they keep caring

Because they're paid professionals. This is their job.

They are actually putting themselves about but it's pathetically disjointed. One player makes a huge play and hit (McCarthy) and the others aren't switched on at all. Suggests a lack of preparation and focus coming onto the field. Our line speed is good but it's useless if it's not done with and structure.

Irlandczyk

errlloyd wrote: »

My post was somewhat tongue in cheek.

Had a feeling, sorry! First ten minutes and I'm a bit of a grump already...

case885

case885 wrote:

Hogg I think, a few calls may go his way

I called it

Crash

I miss Ireland

errlloyd

This is hopeless.

Buer

Their maul bitch slapped us earlier. I'm surprised they didn't go to the corner again.

Buer

12 minutes in and we have not had possession beyond their 10m line. You can hear the discontent in the crowd.

captbarnacles

Christ. This is appalling.

RuggieBear

owens despises jennings...always has!

19543261

What were we doing there? Why did we run at their defense for 3 phases if we were just going to kick it like that.

Big Nelly

What happened to the Glasgow player?

This is shocking sh*t.......awful

Dreadful discipline from Leinster

Buer

Our back line is aligned so poorly. Such massive gaps between the players and no players coming on any sort of angle.

The pack has been even worse. Shocking, in fact.

matthew8

More or less every league performance has been pathetic since before Christmas. Glasgow are up for it but we've given ourselves a mountain to climb.

Buer

19543261 wrote: »

What were we doing there? Why did we run at their defense for 3 phases if we were just going to kick it like that.

We were trying to work some sort of opening. It wasn't happening and we were getting stretched so Reddan made the right call to clear.

19543261

Buer wrote: »

Our back line is aligned so poorly. Such massive gaps between the players and no players coming on any sort of angle.

The pack has been even worse. Shocking, in fact.

Was just thinking this. We went wide and there were like maximum 2 options.

mr. pleasant

hogg on his own is more attacking threat than the entire leinster backline combined

19543261

Buer wrote: »

We were trying to work some sort of opening. It wasn't happening and we were getting stretched so Reddan made the right call to clear.

Work openings with one off runners from standing starts.

Buer

That wasn't even a backs move. They just passed it along the line from a scrum and made 50m.

errlloyd

Buer wrote: »

That wasn't even a backs move. They just passed it along the line from a scrum and made 50m.

That also wasn't even a sidestep, Zane just didn't tackle him.

A-Train

Another vintage performance so far, shocking! Great momentum for next week

Buer

Matawalu really doesn't have a bran in his head.

RuggieBear

ugh:(

Taco Corp

Buer wrote: »

Matawalu really doesn't have a bran in his head.

Doesn't have a brain either

The Pheasant2

Sigh

ThisRegard

2 or 3 chances there had the pass been made.

Crash

So, Kirchner or Gopperths fault in missing the very very easy one hit line there on the line? Not sure on first glance if it was the delay in offloading, or Kirchner's line too quickly.

Pile of ****e either way though.

Edit: Replay shows Gopperth just didn't bloody give it, despite all the time in the world.

Buer

Holy sh*t Gopperth. You call the switch and then sh*t yourself. That's bizarre.

Te'o needed to get on the ball there again. We looked like we were in there.

Irlandczyk

Try: Butchered. Good job everyone.

Jesus Christ why would they go right there?

Buer

Scrum it down and give it to Big Ben on a crash line.

Tox56

Irlandczyk wrote: »

Try: Butchered. Good job everyone.

Yeah let's go home boys our job here is done

Crash

Oh. Jesus.

corny

Well done Ferg.

Buer

Great hands from Jenno. He owed us that one. Nice from Gopperth too.

Strong carrying from both McFadden and Te'o. We're so f*cked for carriers up front. Conan and Murphy are marked men in the loose these days. They need to find a way to make their carrying effective if they can't just eat up yards.