Leinster Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread XI (The Finals Countdown)

arsebiscuits1

FrannoFan wrote: »

with covid restrictions will players be released back to the provinces i wonder?
The irish squad and injuries leaves leinster looking pretty thin

dooley(injured)/milne
cronin/ sheehan(injured)
Bent/Clarkson/parker
toner
fardy
rudock
penny
8?

luke
10 ?

tommy obrien
oloughlin
jimmy obrien
11(?)

Kelleher

academy lads will get plenty of chances potentially

All the players selected for Ireland are available this weekend afaik.

As for restrictions. I think they're all part of the same bubble etc so could come back in as required.

Think we will see a mixture of youth and experience with the higher profile guys missing out.

Squidgy Black

FrannoFan wrote: »

with covid restrictions will players be released back to the provinces i wonder?
The irish squad and injuries leaves leinster looking pretty thin

dooley(injured)/milne
cronin/ sheehan(injured)
Bent/Clarkson/parker
toner
fardy
rudock
penny
8?

luke
10 ?

tommy obrien
oloughlin
jimmy obrien
11(?)

Kelleher

academy lads will get plenty of chances potentially

Ruddock at 8, Josh Murphy at 6, Frawley at 10 if he pulls through the RTP protocols.

salmocab

I think nearly all of the covid issues in the Irish squads have come through academy players, they probably are more exposed to people outside the rugby bubble for various reasons, so I’d imagine it’s easier for the internationals to move back and forth as they are probably very limited in their contacts.

troyzer

What's the craic with these supporter packs?

El_Duderino 09

arsebiscuits1 wrote: »

All the players selected for Ireland are available this weekend afaik.

As for restrictions. I think they're all part of the same bubble etc so could come back in as required.

Think we will see a mixture of youth and experience with the higher profile guys missing out.

I heard the Ireland players will be in a pretty tight bubble for the duration of Ireland duty. Hard to see how they can let fringe squad members back to provinces if they claim it's a tight bubble.

The players aren't in Ireland camp yet though as far as i know. They were just announced so this weekend is business as usual.

Clegg

https://twitter.com/leinsterrugby/status/1314520482192986119?s=19

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Leinster Rugby (Leinster caps in brackets):

15. Hugo Keenan (19)
14. Jordan Larmour (51)
13. Garry Ringrose (77) CAPTAIN
12. Robbie Henshaw (48)
11. James Lowe (48)
10. Ross Byrne (90)
9. Jamison Gibson-Park (94)
1. Ed Byrne (58)
2. James Tracy (110)
3. Michael Bent (141)
4. Ryan Baird (11)
5. James Ryan (40)
6. Caelan Doris (33)
7. Will Connors (20)
8. Jack Conan (94)

16. Seán Cronin (186)
17. Cian Healy (221)
18. Tom Clarkson (1)
19. Ross Molony (96)
20. Rhys Ruddock (174)
21. Luke McGrath (128)
22. Harry Byrne (10)
23. Jimmy O’Brien (18)

Referee: Ben Whitehouse (WRU)

Interested Observer

That is a pretty strong team, good to see.

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Benetton Rugby :

15 Jayden Hayward (105)
14 Ratuva Tavuyara (33)
13 Luca Morisi (79)
12 Marco Zanon (31)
11 Monty Ioane (54)
10 Paolo Garbisi (2)
9 Dewaldt Duvenage (C) (39)
8 Toa Halafihi (25 )
7 Abraham Steyn (87)
6 Sebastian Negri (41)
5 Eli Snyman (16)
4 Irné Herbst (46)
3 Tiziano Pasquali (73)
2 Hame Faiva (50)
1 Cherif Traore (65)

Available: 16 Gianmarco Lucchesi (3), 17 Nicola Quaglio (52), 18 Simone Ferrari (70), 19 Niccolò Cannone (10), 20 Federico Ruzza (55), 21 Giovanni Pettinelli (33), 22 Callum Braley (2 ), 23 Edoardo Padovani (2).

Unavailable: Tommaso Allan, Derrick Appiah, Tomas Baravalle, Ignacio Brex, Matteo Drudi, Riccardo Favretto, Thomas Gallo, Michele Lamaro, Marco Riccioni, Federico Zani.

RugbyLover123

Is Deegan injured?

Exclamation Marc

RugbyLover123 wrote: »

Is Deegan injured?

He injured his knee last week and was due for further scans this week.

El_Duderino 09

RugbyLover123 wrote: »

Is Deegan injured?

Yeah injured last weekend shortly after coming on. Think it was his knee.

CMcsporty

Hopefully Italy have a decent 10 in the making with Paolo Garbisi
Scored last week v Ulster
Looks nifty enough

AbusesToilets

Has Ringrose replaced Rhys as a club captain?

Squidgy Black

AbusesToilets wrote: »

Has Ringrose replaced Rhys as a club captain?

Think there's a leadership group with a few different players in it I think.

Clegg

Henshaw was very few Leinster caps for the length of time he's been here. Level with James Lowe who joined a season after.

arsebiscuits1

Clegg wrote: »

Henshaw was very few Leinster caps for the length of time he's been here. Level with James Lowe who joined a season after.

He's had a few lengthy injury layoffs in fairness. Last season was the longest run of fitness he's had in years.

Between his pec tear after the lions, the shoulder dislocation, the mysterious dead leg that kept him out for months and whatever other issues he's had would have taken a good chunk of minutes.

Add the fact that there hasn't been and Ireland squad/ camp he hasn't been picked for when he's fit in the last 5 years.

sydthebeat

Clegg wrote: »

Henshaw was very few Leinster caps for the length of time he's been here. Level with James Lowe who joined a season after.

more a reflection of Lowes non test availability than anything else really

AdamD

sydthebeat wrote: »

more a reflection of Lowes non test availability than anything else really

Lowe doesn't play that many games either

sydthebeat

AdamD wrote: »

Lowe doesn't play that many games either

48 games in 2.5 seasons is almost 20 games a season......

Buer

sydthebeat wrote: »

more a reflection of Lowes non test availability than anything else really

Keep in mind Lowe's availability was heavily impacted by the foreign player limitation with JGP and Fardy for 2 years.

AbusesToilets

Given Frawley's rise as a viable option at 12, would there be benefit to looking at Henshaw at 15? I think his best position is 13, but given Ringrose is ever present there, there's a case of getting your best players on the pitch, plus Frawley offers options as distributor that Henshaw doesn't at 12.

Always thought he was very good there for Connacht.

Richie_Rich89

Two U23 players starting v Treviso (Baird, Doris) and one player (Bent) who's 33+.

Currently contracted U23s:
Michael Milne 5/2/99
Ronan Kelleher 24/1/98
Dan Sheehan
John McKee 15/2/00
Thomas Clarkson 22/2/00
Jack Dunne 21/11/98
Ryan Baird 26/7/99
Charlie Ryan 2/3/99
Brian Deeny 2/3/00
Joe McCarthy 26/3/01
Scott Penny 22/9/99
Martin Moloney 19/10/00
Sean O'Brien 31/7/00
Alex Soroka 19/2/01
Caelan Doris 2/5/98
Hugh O'Sullivan 24/2/98
Paddy Patterson 30/11/98
Cormac Foley 24/10/99
Ciaran Frawley 4/12/97
Harry Byrne 22/5/99
David Hawkshaw 3/7/99
Tommy O'Brien 28/5/98
Liam Turner 22/7/99
Michael Silvester 4/6/98
Aaron O'Sullivan 15/12/99
Andrew Smith 21/7/00
Niall Comerford
Max O'Reilly 26/2/00

Current players who are 33+:
Michael Bent
Sean Cronin
Scott Fardy
Devin Toner
Jonathan Sexton
Cian Healy

Rigor Mortis

Bent is going to skew that exercise of yours. Given the lack of tight heads we have available this season he is going to feature heavily.

Richie_Rich89

Rigor Mortis wrote: »

Bent is going to skew that exercise of yours. Given the lack of tight heads we have available this season he is going to feature heavily.

Not really. It's the average no. of U23 players starting in league matches over the season I'm interested in, not the average age of the starting XV. Including the number of older players starting is more of an afterthought really.

stephen_n

Exclamation Marc wrote: »

Referee: Ben Whitehouse (WRU)

Burkie1203

Ryle nugent...

Stadio Domingo

Gonna be a long 80 minutes

armchaircoach

Any streams, mobdro has a black screen with sound

Clegg

Tbh it didn't look like the Treviso player was looking to win the ball on the deck. Thought the interpretations had changed so that they didn't award penalties for merely avoiding the carrier from releasing.

Clegg

Connors banged his knee there. He's back on but doesn't very comfortable.