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

Podge_irl

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

Kaysen Worried Trigger 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

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

[Deleted User] 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

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!

Clegg

I'm sorry but how on Earth has he given a penalty against Leinster for that?

The Dragons player was never in the air.

Squidgy Black

Squidgy Black wrote: »

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

There was virtually no interference with the 9 and they didn't have fast ball either way.

theVersatile

Clegg wrote: »

I'm sorry but how on Earth has he given a penalty against Leinster for that?

The Dragons player was never in the air.

He didn't have the ball when contact was made.

crisco10

Clegg wrote: »

I'm sorry but how on Earth has he given a penalty against Leinster for that?

The Dragons player was never in the air.

It was for early hit. But seemed harsh thru my blue tinted glasses

randomname2005

Squidgy Black wrote: »

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

And distance on the penalty kicks.

Clegg

Thought Whitehouse said it was for a tackle in the air tbh. If not then fair enough.

Macdarack

I'm looking forward to seeing Harry Byrne tonight, a lot of talk about him lately.

Morathi

Jesus, first meaningful stint of possession and monster carries everywhere, it's beautiful.

ScissorPaperRock

Harry Byrne is too good for this pitch.

randomname2005

Nice try, good to get off zero. Didn't think it would take 23 minutes

Squidgy Black

[Deleted User] wrote: »

There was virtually no interference with the 9 and they didn't have fast ball either way.

Was brought in as part of the new ruck interpretations last year, have to roll away to the clear side of the ruck, refs are told to blow it straight away if there's any sort of interference or slight slow down

hogandrew

Clegg wrote: »

Thought Whitehouse said it was for a tackle in the air tbh. If not then fair enough.

I think he might have said it was still in the air or something similar. I definitely thought he'd said the same as u until I seen the replay

Clegg

Josh Murphy is a big horse in contact. Very comfortable at Pro 14 level.

Clegg

Soon pretty poor stuff from Leinster tbh. We've had Dragons 9 cheap points.

randomname2005

It was never slow enough to see exactly but did their 7 drop his knee to the ground before the jackle?

Jesus richard hibbard has had a few pies

KH25

Clegg wrote: »

Soon pretty poor stuff from Leinster tbh. We've had Dragons 9 cheap points.

Yeah some very poor penalties conceded.

randomname2005

That was a cynical penalty he gave away.

degsie

randomname2005 wrote: »

It was never slow enough to see exactly but did their 7 drop his knee to the ground before the jackle?

Yes he did

randomname2005

Nice try, ahead after the conversation. Time to cut out the mistakes