Leinster vs. Lyon, Sunday 12th January, 13.00 (BT2)

Dave_The_Sheep

Leinster

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Lyon

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15. Jordan Larmour | Toby Arnold
14. Dave Kearney | Xavier Mignot
13. Garry Ringrose | Ethan Dumortier
12. Robbie Henshaw | Thibaut Regard
11. James Lowe | Noa Naikaitaci
10. Ross Byrne | Jean-Marcellin Buttin
9. Jack McGrath | Jonathan Pélissié
1. Cian Healy | Hamza Kaabèche
2. James Tracy | Badri Alkhazashvili
3. Tadhg Furlong | Francisco Gomez Kodela
4. Devin Toner | Martial Rolland
5. Scott Fardy | Hendrik Roodt
6. Rhys Ruddock | Killian Geraci
7. Josh Van Der Flier | Etienne Oosthuizen
8. Max Deegan | Virgile Bruni
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16. Sean Cronin | Jeremie Maurouard
17. Peter Dooley | Raphael Chaume
18. Andrew Porter | Kevin Yameogo
19. Ross Molony | Tanginoa Halaifonua
20. Caelan Doris | Felix Lambey
21. Jamison Gibson-Park | Sam Hidalgo-Clyne
22. Ciaran Frawley | Joris Moura
23. Rob Kearney | Josua Tuisova


Referee: Ben Whitehouse (Wales)
Assistant Referees: Gwyn Morris, Mike English (Wales)
TMO: Ian Davies (Wales)

Strong Leinster team, all in all, going more or less all out to try and ensure a top seeding spot, reflected by the 40 point bookies spread (not helped by Lyon sending a ... weakened ... side). The try scoring machine that is Dave Kearney starts as does Deegan. Ross Byrne will want to have a good performance to put him in the driving seat (if not already there) for the Irish 10 spot. With Cooney tearing it up for Ulster lately, McGrath hopefeully can do the same tomorrow.

While there's a sense of inevitability about Leinster at the moment, and after two games against Ulster and Connacht where they flew out of the blocks only to slow down a lot in the second half, as a fan you'd hope for a full 80 minute performance as this seems the perfect game to do it. Not counting chickens yet though. Easy as fans to get complacent, but I can't see the players falling for it.

molloyjh

Should be a complete foregone conclusion. As long as we get the 5 and no serious injuries everything else is irrelevant.

Will be interesting to see how Jack McGrath gets on at scrum half. The move to ulster has paid off.

d.pop

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Will be interesting to see how Jack McGrath gets on at scrum half. The move to ulster has paid off.

Brilliant, Not sure about his box kicking...

d.pop

d.pop wrote: »

Brilliant, Not sure about his box kicking...

Reminds me of one of my favorite moments the last few years:

https://streamable.com/aa51l

Gibson Park and Adam Byrne in stitches at full time.

ionadnapokot

Went for the spiral

ionadnapokot

Whats the story with Lambey? Dropped from WC squad & not in 6N squad. Thought he was good in last years 6Nations

troyzer

Leinster to hit 30 by half time and treat the second half like a defensive training session.

47-6

awec

Leinster to break 50, bonus point by half time.

First try to come in first 5 mins or so.

troyzer

To be fair to Lyon.

They've had the champions in their group for two years in a row.

Clegg

Ben Whitehouse is the ref?

Oh god.

Clegg

Ok.

That's just a pisstake

awec

There we go. Try one.

troyzer

Clegg wrote: »

Ok.

That's just a pisstake

It's too funny.

Dave Kearney though.

Larbre34

Boooooooooooooooooooooooo....

Clegg

No try

But see that kick from Dave? Best Irish wing this season.

Larbre34

Bleedin VAR, ruining the game.

Larbre34

Right thats two rehearsals, next time lads

pickarooney

troyzer wrote: »

Leinster to hit 30 by half time and treat the second half like a defensive training session.

47-6

Three concussions in a year, he's been stood down for three months. May be back in a week or two.

Clegg

The speed in which Leinster move the ball wide is breathtaking. 5 minutes in and already created two overlaps. Shame neither were trys.

troyzer

pickarooney wrote: »

Three concussions in a year, he's been stood down for three months. May be back in a week or two.

Eh?

awec

7 mins no tries. Disaster . Leinster feeling the pressure?

pickarooney

troyzer wrote: »

Eh?

He's been tested since October.
Oops, replied to the wrong post and it looks like he's back this week already.

Clegg

davedavedavedavedave

Squidgy Black

Class stuff out of Byrne there

Larbre34

Deserved. I see a hat trick in DK today.

Dave_The_Sheep

Byrne limping slightly?

Larbre34

If the Willow Park U-11s did that in a match, they'd be running laps Monday night till they puked.

ongarite

That was a brain dead penalty to give away

Is there a ref mic frequency?

Clegg

That's superb from McGrath.

Squidgy Black

BP before 20 minutes again?

mangobob

Squidgy Black wrote: »

BP before 20 minutes again?

Not sure if they will from here, but they easily could have by now. They crossed the line 4 times already.

BonnieSituation

They need to stop with this Chelsea Dagger crap after tries.

Makes one want to massacre the MC.

Squidgy Black

mangobob wrote: »

Not sure if they will from here, but they easily could have by now. They crossed the line 4 times already.

If McGrath hadn't slipped there I reckon we could've done it

Clegg

Making line breaks for fun now. Very nice break from Ringrose. Shame McGrath couldn't get the pass back to him.

Dunney848

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Is there a ref mic frequency?

96fm

prawnsambo

That's two crooked throws at the lineout by Lyon and the first one to be penalised.

Clegg

Out of fecking nowhere.

Think we're going to see a change in style now. More direct and less flashy. Grind away at them.

mangobob

Well thats a kick in the balls.

schmoo2k

No need to change game style - 2 tries to one if a ok ratio...

Larbre34

BonnieSituation wrote: »

They need to stop with this Chelsea Dagger crap after tries.

Makes one want to massacre the MC.

It better not ever stop, its pure tradition

Squidgy Black

Byrne always looks like he's running in slow motion but his carrying has been really decent so far.

Larbre34

mangobob wrote: »

Well thats a kick in the balls.

No it wasn't. Its the nature of the game we play, so long as our ratio is 4:1 or better we're golden.

It is however the sort of thing that'll get Andy Farrell thinking hard.

Clegg

Deegan's having a stormer. This competition between himself and Doris is really bringing the best out of them.

Dunney848

Trying to force too many passes

mangobob

Superman try.

Larbre34

This is bullshiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

PhlegmyMoses

That is a stupid decision

ongarite

Should have taken the kick before TMO called it.