Ospreys vs. Leinster, The Gnoll, Friday 21st January, 19.35 (eir Sport 1, TG4)

vienne86

Wow. Some impact from bench.

Squidgy Black

Going for the scrum. Hope it doesn't bite us in the arse.

A-Train

Hopefully that’s that now.

vienne86

Lovely from Osborne.

Squidgy Black

Thank f*ck.

Buer

So simple. Don't often see those set 8, 9, blindside winger moves much anymore and hardly ever see them result in a score.

vienne86

Fantastic conversion by Byrne!

A-Train

Good defence by Leinster when it mattered there.

Clegg

Fardy for motm?

Buer

Clegg wrote: »

Fardy for motm?

Was he? I'd go with Dooley probably. Molony was very good too.

A-Train

Great scrum and what a great kick.

A-Train

Peter Dooley official motm

vienne86

Dooley MOTM - well deserved.

vienne86

Thank heavens that's over!

stephen_n

Our lineout has been awful tonight

Squidgy Black

vienne86 wrote: »

Thank heavens that's over!

Haven't been so glad to hear the final whistle in quite some time.

Some good mixed with some bad, I'm sure there'll be a lot of stuff for Lancaster and Leo to bring up in video reviews, just silly little mistakes.

Poor enough game for Frawley, probably should've brought Byrne on a bit earlier but hopefully he'll learn from it.

Bridge93

God bless anyone of you who watched all of this over the u20s game! Is that the record wins now?

sydthebeat

Good defense won that

Young lads would have learned a lot from that game

Buer

Result was pretty much what I expected. What I didn't think was that it was our bench that would win the game. Baird, Osborne and Byrne came on and all made telling impacts. The steal and carry from Baird was the undoubted stand out passage of the game. Not hard to see why he's involved with the Irish squad despite minimal involvement.

Byrne made a very tidy impact after his arrival. He looked much more assured than Frawley who actually got the full 80. Byrne came on for TOB and Frawley shifted out.

There's only one more Pro14 game during the 6N so people need to make the most of their opportunities. I wouldn't expect Ross Byrne to go to South Africa though so that's 3 more games for Frawley and HB to share.

durkadurka

i think if we beat Glasgow next week the league is done.

we have four more handy games: kings away,. dragons away, zebra home and cardiff at home.

that puts us around 80 points which Ulster would do very well to match.

Clegg

Subs were very good and made a great impact. We don't produce locks with the dynamism of Baird very often. Great spring to steak that lineout and incredible pace and power to run 50 metres bouncing off tacklers. I know he was the back row replacement today but his future is in the second row.

Disappointed for Frawley that he had a poor game. Passing was.very poor. Some of that was down to receivers over running their line, but there were enough passes that went to ground for you to say that he just played poorly. Still a very skilled footballer who might make a better 12. Harry Byrne showed some lovely touches when he came on.

Thought Cronin was poor when he came on. Doesn't seem to be 100% at the minute. Not his dynamic self by any means and his throwing has regressed.

Scottmactom

Cronins regressing unsurprisingly given his age.

DeHood123

Clegg wrote: »

Subs were very good and made a great impact. We don't produce locks with the dynamism of Baird very often. Great spring to steak that lineout and incredible pace and power to run 50 metres bouncing off tacklers. I know he was the back row replacement today but his future is in the second row.

Disappointed for Frawley that he had a poor game. Passing was.very poor. Some of that was down to receivers over running their line, but there were enough passes that went to ground for you to say that he just played poorly. Still a very skilled footballer who might make a better 12. Harry Byrne showed some lovely touches when he came on.

Thought Cronin was poor when he came on. Doesn't seem to be 100% at the minute. Not his dynamic self by any means and his throwing has regressed.

How was Cronin poor when he came on bar one throw that looked like it was either caught by the wind or hit with a hand
Made his tackles, was on the end of Lowes half break early on, should have scored a try if Baird hadn’t been so greedy as he was directly inside him and kept the scrum piling on the pressure with 2 kids next to him
Bit of perspective please

Scottmactom

DeHood123 wrote: »

How was Cronin poor when he came on bar one throw that looked like it was either caught by the wind or hit with a hand
Made his tackles, was on the end of Lowes half break early on, should have scored a try if Baird hadn’t been so greedy as he was directly inside him and kept the scrum piling on the pressure with 2 kids next to him
Bit of perspective please

Two posts.. Both defending Cronin..

DeHood123

Scottmactom wrote: »

Two posts.. Both defending Cronin..

Cheers for your excellent research, plenty of time obviously
Just stating facts, bit of a negative narrative on here about him which needs fact checking sometimes
Stats from the game back it up too, although they don’t tell everything