Ospreys V Leinster 08/01/16 KO 19:45 Sky/BBC2 Wales

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LEINSTER:


15. Rob Kearney
14. Isa Nacewa CAPTAIN
13. Ben Te'o
12. Luke Fitzgerald
11. Dave Kearney
10. Johnny Sexton
9. Luke McGrath


1. Jack McGrath
2. Richardt Strauss
3. Tadhg Furlong
4. Devin Toner
5. Mike McCarthy
6. Rhys Ruddock
7. Sean O'Brien
8. Jamie Heaslip

Replacements:

16. Sean Cronin
17. Peter Dooley
18. Marty Moore
19. Tom Denton
20. Dominic Ryan
21. Eoin Reddan
22. Ian Madigan
23. Noel Reid


OSPREYS:

15 Dan Evans
14 Jeff Hassler
13 Jonathan Spratt
12 Owen Watkin
11 Hanno Dirksen
10 Dan Biggar
9 Brendon Leonard


1 Paul James (Capt)
2 Scott Baldwin
3 Aaron Jarvis
4 Lloyd Ashley
5 Rory Thornton
6 James King
7 Sam Underhill
8 Dan Baker

Replacements:

16 Scott Otten
17 Nicky Smith
18 Ma’afu Fia
19 Alun Wyn Jones
20 Justin Tipuric
21 Tom Habberfield
22 Sam Davies
23 Eli Walker



Might as well get a match thread going. Ospreys have a few big guns on the bench, and Lydiate is out injured. Like Leinster, they had a successful Christmas Derby period, beating Scarlets and the Dragons.

Leinster are obviously focused on the Pro12 now, and that's a strong starting 15. It will be particularly interesting to see how Luke McGrath fairs on his return.

Not going to go mad into analysis, but it feels like an opportunity is here for Leinster to grab a rare enough away win at the Liberty, so naturally, Leinster by 15 billion.

Has the makings of a great game. Think Leinster have more quality in the 23 but Ospreys are at home and beginning to pick things up this season.

I predicted we would be 5+ over Munster and 9+ over Connacht. Going to go with 12+ here YOLO.

aimee1

very average at 15, 12, 11, 6 and 8.

Think the strong enough side indicates rotation in europe. Luke - Sexton - Fitz - Teo. If they click .....

vienne86

Great chance for Leinster here with that team, but it'll be tough in the Liberty stadium.

wp_rathead

Wyn Jones and Tipuric on bench are massive for Ospreys
Hon Leinster- hopefully start of a bad weekend for the Welsh regions

CatFromHue

Leinster by the amount of times 1916 will be said in the media this year!

molloyjh

The player mic. Such an utter waste of time.

COME ON LEINSTER!

ssaye2

Cmon a win would be huge, best chance in ages
Sob fend off on Biggar coming up

Adventagious

Feeling good about going top of the table tonight, c'mon Leinster.

molloyjh

Rain looks fairly heavy there now.

irishbucsfan

Great news, Jonathan Spratt on the player mic

aimee1

Is the pitch not marked properly?

awec

sexton took a bang to the head there.

vienne86

Decent start from Leinster.

Shefwedfan

Which sky channel is it on?

molloyjh

Fairly lateral there. I do like how McGrath delays his pass at times. And that hand off from Te'o.

Oh dear Luke....

molloyjh

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Which sky channel is it on?

SS1

irishbucsfan

Great continuity, great discipline and defense from Ospreys as well

vienne86

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Which sky channel is it on?

SS1

Shefwedfan

Which sky sports channel it on?

molloyjh

That's the difference between coming onto the ball at speed and Leinster's static receivers.

vienne86

That was careless of Sexton.

Bucketing down now.

irishbucsfan

How is Sexton not going to the sin bin?

molloyjh

Heaslip injured!? Surely not.

awec

Sexton very lucky not to be binned for that.

wp_rathead

Powerful running from the Ospreys

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Which sky sports channel it on?

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Pudsy33

Teo and Heaslip hit each other rather than Hassler.

aimee1

Ouch. Jamie not looking too good there

vienne86

OMG Heaslip getting attention!

Tox56

irishbucsfan wrote: »

How is Sexton not going to the sin bin?

If there was someone to play the ball he would be but there wasn't, which makes sexton doing that even more annoying, we'd relatively got away with it and reorganised

sullivlo

molloyjh wrote: »

Heaslip injured!? Surely not.

Someone jinxed it.

Zzippy

awec wrote: »

sexton took a bang to the head there.

That's pretty much every game!

Stheno

Heslip off?

molloyjh

That's a big loss of its permanent. Balls.

irishbucsfan

What did we ever do before the player mic?

molloyjh

Discipline lads FFS.....

awec

I'd say he's gone. The fact he's walking off with his arm around the physio suggests he's not 100%.

vienne86

And now McCarthy offside. Come on guys!

Pudsy33

awec wrote: »

I'd say he's gone. The fact he's walking off with his arm around the physio suggests he's not 100%.

Agreed, he looks ****ed

The Rape of Lucretia

After that knock Heaslip looked like he must have tried to read the Ireland Team Talk thread.

awec

Hands on the deck there no?

Adventagious

Solid defense, hold the line lads.

vienne86

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Agreed, he looks ****ed

Didn't see what happened to him, but doesn't look good.

Good defence from Leinster. Ospreys should have scored from this pressure.

Clearlier

Can't understand why the ref didn't offer advantage form that knock-on. Not that it mattered in the end.

.ak

Looks heaslip lost teeth... Could be a bit of shock...

"Let's just say he didn't do a dry January" :pac:

Crimsonforce

Sky really do a great job. More of this pro12 please..they got the scarlets game against connacht too tommorrow...

molloyjh

Superb from Sexton.

Pudsy33

Some kick

awec

Quality from Sexton.

Pudsy33

vienne86 wrote: »

Didn't see what happened to him, but doesn't look good.

Good defence from Leinster. Ospreys should have scored from this pressure.

Him and Teo collided when tackling Hassler.