Leinster Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread XII (The Byrne Supremacy)

salmocab

Kearney signed a new contract.

arsebiscuits1

The Tweets for Dave, Tracy and Clarkson have all been sent via Tweetdeck on the half hour or the hour.

So keep an eye on Twitter at those times lol

swiwi_

arsebiscuits1 wrote: »

The Tweets for Dave, Tracy and Clarkson have all been sent via Tweetdeck on the half hour or the hour.

So keep an eye on Twitter at those times lol

What is this? Switzerland?

Dubinusa

Delighted to see Treacy sign! Very valuable player imo. I am also chuffed to see Clarkson promoted, although he still has a lot to learn! The signing of the NIQ is very interesting. Could he be used at lh? Would Porter switch back to lh?
I wonder if Hawkshaw will be promoted? He's a year 3. If not would another province take a gamble on him? What about Sylvester? Will he get another year in the academy or be let go. He has been injured for the last few months and hasn't had any opportunities to impress.

arsebiscuits1

Dubinusa wrote: »

Delighted to see Treacy sign! Very valuable player imo. I am also chuffed to see Clarkson promoted, although he still has a lot to learn! The signing of the NIQ is very interesting. Could he be used at lh? Would Porter switch back to lh?
I wonder if Hawkshaw will be promoted? He's a year 3. If not would another province take a gamble on him? What about Sylvester? Will he get another year in the academy or be let go. He has been injured for the last few months and hasn't had any opportunities to impress.

I think Hawkshaw has shown enough to be given a 1 year dev deal at least.

Given Silvester missed essentially this entire season with injury he might be given the rarely seen 4th year in the Academy. But given MOR is there it's not looking likely.

arsebiscuits1

Ross Molony Next up

https://twitter.com/leinsterrugby/status/1381993079926882304

Squidgy Black

I wonder have they just got a load of the tweets scheduled in tweetdeck or something, bit mad if they just announced every deal one by one

Dubinusa

Delighted to retain Molony. Vastly under rated.

Exclamation Marc

arsebiscuits1 wrote: »

The Tweets for Dave, Tracy and Clarkson have all been sent via Tweetdeck on the half hour or the hour.

So keep an eye on Twitter at those times lol

Same again for Molony, both the announcement and the follow up tweet 30 minutes later for each one with pictures in action.

Sheep Shagger

Squidgy Black wrote: »

I wonder have they just got a load of the tweets scheduled in tweetdeck or something, bit mad if they just announced every deal one by one

Outside of match day most social media activity is scheduled, the website articles are written in advance and scheduled to go live too - is normal enough for any business etc.

Squidgy Black

Sheep Shagger wrote: »

Outside of match day most social media activity is scheduled, the website articles are written in advance and scheduled to go live too - is normal enough for any business etc.

Yeah I meant more the fact they're doing them one by one as opposed to usually just posting one big update and saying 20 odd players have signed contracts

Yeah_Right

I hear they are waiting till the end of the season before announcing the Furlong side of Alaalatoa trade.

Sheep Shagger

Squidgy Black wrote: »

Yeah I meant more the fact they're doing them one by one as opposed to usually just posting one big update and saying 20 odd players have signed contracts

Helps the social media streams tick over given there's not the normal level of content to cover...a summary piece will be linked in the ezine on Friday lol.

Former Former Former

Yeah_Right wrote: »

I hear they are waiting till the end of the season before announcing the Furlong side of Alaalatoa trade.

Good. Big ginger farmer head on him, he has never belonged here.

arsebiscuits1

Exclamation Marc wrote: »

Same again for Molony, both the announcement and the follow up tweet 30 minutes later for each one with pictures in action.

Yeah Tweetdeck is a handy scheduler for this stuff. I'd wager they have all the contract announcements created ready to go

FrannoFan

Exclamation Marc wrote: »

New contract for James Tracy

https://twitter.com/leinsterrugby/status/1381932678325231619?s=19

After the gaff he bought in ballsbridge he was going nowhere!

Burkie1203

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/elite-athletes-still-required-to-undergo-10-day-mandatory-quarantine-1.4536524?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

sydthebeat

10 days in carton house on the tab of the IRFU..... nice

Former Former Former

Burkie1203 wrote: »

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/elite-athletes-still-required-to-undergo-10-day-mandatory-quarantine-1.4536524?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Sounds fair, tbh

Burkie1203

sydthebeat wrote: »

10 days in carton house on the tab of the IRFU..... nice

MHQ system stopped due to no capacity.

City is full of hotels FFS

Yeah_Right

Former Former Former wrote: »

Good. Big ginger farmer head on him, he has never belonged here.

I heard part of the deal involves him doing a farming degree at Lincoln University.

Thrashssacre

Is it known how long alaalatoas contact is, have a feeling he'll only do a season here as a stopgap until at least one of the younger props are up to speed then he'll be off to the Moana pasifika team to finish his career. Could end up being a decent but of business for both party's.

Clegg

Henshaw, Furlong, Keenan and VDF have been nominated for European Player of the Year.

https://twitter.com/leinsterrugby/status/1382257997846614017?s=09

yerrahbah

Furlong has played 55 mins in the competition

sydthebeat

yerrahbah wrote: »

Furlong has played 55 mins in the competition

its a 15 man list to be whittled down to 5 after the semis... so no big deal.

Exclamation Marc

sydthebeat wrote: »

its a 15 man list to be whittled down to 5 after the semis... so no big deal.

And by the time of the final, its down to a player off one of those teams (or a team from the Challenge Cup Final) so a player could rack up 50 tries up to that point but if eliminated, he won't be in the running.

Serbian

I don't think many people would have predicted Keenan being so key to both Leinster and Ireland at the beginning of this season, culminating in a nomination for European Player of the Year. Some 8+ months for him.

sydthebeat

Serbian wrote: »

I don't think many people would have predicted Keenan being so key to both Leinster and Ireland at the beginning of this season, culminating in a nomination for European Player of the Year. Some 8+ months for him.

.. and on a lot of pundits lists for the lions as well.....

Pudsy33

sydthebeat wrote: »

.. and on a lot of pundits lists for the lions as well.....

As he should be, outperformed Hogg at the weekend and Hogg was presumably the incumbent.

Clegg

Zebo returning to Munster is an interesting one. He's not as good a player as he was at his peak but can still do a decent job. But it's not addressing the real problem areas for Munster which is the pack. Specifically the front row.