Dragons v Leinster - Fri19th - 7:35PM - TG4 - eir sport 1

degsie

Leinster: Max O'Reilly; Cian Kelleher; Rory O’Loughlin, Ross Byrne, Dave Kearney; Harry Byrne, Luke McGrath (Capt); Peter Dooley, James Tracy, Michael Bent; Ross Molony, Ryan Baird; Josh Murphy, Scott Penny, Jack Conan

Replacements: Dan Sheehan, Marcus Hanan, Tom Clarkson, Devin Toner, Scott Fardy, Rowan Osborne, David Hawkshaw, Jamie Osborne

Excited to Byrne Bros. starting together.

bayern

Two 20 year old props on the bench.
Two 21 year old forwards starting.

Dave_The_Sheep

Leinster

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Dragons

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15 Jordan Williams | Max O’Reilly
14 Jonah Holmes | Cian Kelleher
13 Aneurin Owen | Rory O’Loughlin
12 Jack Dixon | Ross Byrne
11 Ashton Hewitt | Dave Kearney
10 Sam Davies | Harry Byrne
9 Rhodri Williams | Luke McGrath
8 Brok Harris | Peter Dooley
7 Richard Hibbard | James Tracy
6 Lloyd Fairbrother | Michael Bent
5 Joseph Davies | Ross Molony
4 Ben Carter | Ryan Baird
3 Matthew Screech | Josh Murphy
2 Ben Fry | Scott Penny
1 Huw Taylor | Jack Conan

16 Ellis Shipp | Dan Sheehan
17 Greg Bateman | Marcus Hanan
18 Chris Coleman | Tom Clarkson
19 Joe Maksymiw | Devin Toner
20 Dan Baker | Scott Fardy
21 Luke Baldwin | Rowan Osborne
22 Josh Lewis | David Hawkshaw
23 Connor Edwards | Jamie Osborne




Referee: Ben Whitehouse (WRU) (ugh)
Assistants: Mike English (WR), Daniel Jones (WRU)
TMO: Ian Davies (WRU)

Because I clearly have too much time on my hands in work...

100 Caps for Conan tonight, and less than the normal Byrne quotient for Leinster tonight.

I wonder where the whinging about Irish officials during Irish games will be during this match.

[edit] And someone already has a match thread up. Well, at least I got paid to do this...

Dave_The_Sheep

Well, ****.

molloyjh

We really are stretched thin in a few positions at the moment....Still looking forward to this though. Its a very good pack we have out.

.ak

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

Well, ****.

9.5/10 for table effort tho.

Dave_The_Sheep

.ak wrote: »

9.5/10 for table effort tho.

Serious amount of procrastination going on, it is Friday after all.

Squidgy Black

Fairbrother is some unit, like a square with legs

crisco10

2 penalties and a knock on. Josh Murphy had had better starts to a game.

Clegg

Ryan flippin Baird

Podge_irl

That pitch looks manky

randomname2005

Clegg wrote: »

Ryan flippin Baird

Good run. Pity about the handling mistakes. Pitch looks to be worse than usual!!

Squidgy Black

Not sure how that's deemed as kicked under pressure but Ross got a bit lucky there.

Squidgy Black

They really need to pull the trigger and get the pitch replaced, they keep kicking it down the line but it's woeful.

sioda

Podge_irl wrote: »

That pitch looks manky

Did the commentator say its a plastic pitch how the hell is it that bad?

degsie

Kicker was under pressure? Its flippin rugby!

Squidgy Black

sioda wrote: »

Did the commentator say its a plastic pitch how the hell is it that bad?

Tongue in cheek I think because they've been saying they're putting in a plastic pitch for the last couple of years

Clegg

Very smart from Kearney to let that bounce and go down.

randomname2005

degsie wrote: »

Kicker was under pressure? Its flippin rugby!

Yeah, seemed very home town

Former Former Former

Between the state of the pitch and the tiny in goal area, that's a ridiculous venue

MaybeMaybe

Podge_irl wrote: »

That pitch looks manky

Is there any excuse these days for a supposedly professional team to have such a crap pitch?

randomname2005

MaybeMaybe wrote: »

Is there any excuse these days for a supposedly professional team to have such a crap pitch?

Levels the playing field?

randomname2005

Too many penalties this early

Venjur

That was no penalty against Moloney.

Clegg

randomname2005 wrote: »

Good run. Pity about the handling mistakes. Pitch looks to be worse than usual!!

Excellent offload in contact from Penney too.

degsie

Whitehouse should be wearing No 16 Dragons

Squidgy Black

Venjur wrote: »

That was no penalty against Moloney.

Ah it definitely was Venjur he rolled back across the ruck into the 9 instead of trying to roll out, it always gets called

sydthebeat

Great clearance by davies

[Deleted User]

I don’t like complaining about the ref but Whitehouse has let Dragons off a few times already, including a clear forward pass followed by a clear knock on within a phase or two of eachother.

Squidgy Black

There must be some wind, Dragons are getting serious miles out of their clearance kicks

randomname2005

Batrachotox wrote: »

I don’t like complaining about the ref but Whitehouse has let Dragons off a few times already, including a clear forward pass followed by a clear knock on within a phase or two of eachother.

I hate being one of those, but yeah!