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

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    #1472
    Buer
    Registered Users Posts: 24,212 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    salmocab wrote: »
    Remember someone else used to rag on Connors constantly, wonder where he went.

    Hey Man(s)!

    I'd sell my Granny(15) to try and figure out who those old usernames were.


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    #1473
    Garda Kenny
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 108 ✭✭Garda Kenny


    Clegg wrote: »
    Connors went to the wrong school.

    Nice sharp. Gotta be prepared to not get burned by you Magic. I’m the elitist and you aren’t (all Rock boys aren’t). You really burned me there.......


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    #1474
    arsebiscuits1
    Registered Users Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭arsebiscuits1


    Garda Kenny wrote: »
    Nice sharp. Gotta be prepared to not get burned by you Magic. I’m the elitist and you aren’t (all Rock boys aren’t). You really burned me there.......

    Take it easy on the ol mid-week beers there GK.


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    #1475
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users Posts: 21,633 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    Wasn't it the same bloke who used to bang on about Clegg going to blackrock or something as well.

    The mask slips even further.


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    #1476
    .ak
    Registered Users Posts: 30,308 Mod ✭✭✭✭.ak


    Penny is a unit anyway.


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    #1477
    hold my beer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭hold my beer


    The oul Ignore button is great lads.


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    #1478
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users Posts: 21,633 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    .ak wrote: »
    Penny is a unit anyway.

    He'll be leap frogged by young Cent whenever he gets into the academy.


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    #1479
    Thrashssacre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭Thrashssacre


    Is Charlie Ryan still in the Leinster academy?? haven't heard anything About him since the under 20s matches.


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    #1480
    Zeugnis
    Registered Users Posts: 754 ✭✭✭Zeugnis


    Thrashssacre wrote: »
    Is Charlie Ryan still in the Leinster academy?? haven't heard anything About him since the under 20s matches.


    Injured since playing for Leinster A before Christmas, haven't seen any further information.


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    #1481
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,320 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Connors is 100kg soaking wet


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    #1482
    Rigor Mortis
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    .ak wrote: »
    Penny is a unit anyway.

    He's one in a hundred


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    #1483
    salmocab
    Registered Users Posts: 11,320 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    Rigor Mortis wrote: »
    He's one in a hundred

    Truly awful


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    #1484
    jacothelad
    Registered Users Posts: 5,926 ✭✭✭jacothelad


    Rigor Mortis wrote: »
    He's one in a hundred


    :D:D:D:D:D


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    #1485
    Clegg
    Registered Users Posts: 17,061 ✭✭✭✭Clegg


    Squidgy Black wrote: »
    Wasn't it the same bloke who used to bang on about Clegg going to blackrock or something as well.

    The mask slips even further.

    Funny thing is I've never stepped foot in the place.


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    #1486
    kmart6
    Registered Users Posts: 15,172 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    Bent officially retiring.


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    #1487
    Burkie1203
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    https://twitter.com/Murray_Kinsella/status/1385171906429587459?s=19


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    #1488
    thomond2006
    Registered Users Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    Great player for Leinster. A versatile prop who was rarely unavailable and could deliver solid performances when called upon.


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    #1489
    MaybeMaybe
    Registered Users Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭MaybeMaybe


    Shame he will leave without a send off in his last home game.


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    #1490
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 41,393 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Michael Bent

    Leinster:
    1 x Heineken Cup winner (2018)
    1 x challenge gup winner (2013)
    6 x Pro14 winner (2013, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)

    Pro 14 dream team 2021

    Taranaki:
    6 x ranfurly shield defence
    players player of the year 2012
    sportsman of the year 2012


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    #1491
    hahashake
    Registered Users Posts: 827 ✭✭✭hahashake


    If I recall correctly he wasn't the most popular character for the first year or so, glad he is seen in much better light now.


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    #1492
    sydthebeat
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    hahashake wrote: »
    If I recall correctly he wasn't the most popular character for the first year or so, glad he is seen in much better light now.

    xenophobia by ignorant people because he was signed to solve a tight head crisis.
    he played for ireland before making his leinster debut.

    in doing that that he joins the exclusive club of Brian o Driscoll and James Ryan ;)


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    #1493
    Former Former Former
    Registered Users Posts: 5,788 ✭✭✭Former Former Former


    Genuinely one of our best ever foreign signings. A quality prop on either side of the scrum. I think it was in the MOC era when he started two games against Castres, one leg at LH and the other at TH, and absolutely melted their giant pack on both occasions. And in the 5+ years since then, he's very rarely played badly.

    It was a pity that his intro to Ireland was so contentious because I think he should have picked up more caps along the way.


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    #1494
    salmocab
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    Well this makes me sad


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    #1495
    arsebiscuits1
    Registered Users Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭arsebiscuits1


    https://www.leinsterrugby.ie/michael-bent-it-has-been-a-privilege-thank-you


    What an absolute hero.

    I can't think of how many times over the years I've said we'd have been absolutely goosed without being able to call on Benty.

    He was ready and willing whenever called upon to give incredibly reliable performances and pack down both sides of the scrum without any fuss. Once he hit his stride he was rarely bested by some top class scrummagers.

    In the age where dual props are essentially non existent, this guy could hop across to loosehead without a bother.

    Indeed 21 of his 23 games in 2014/15 were at loosehead 14 of which were starts - including European starts.


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    #1496
    swiwi_
    Registered Users Posts: 4,491 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    Former Former Former wrote: »
    Genuinely one of our best ever foreign signings. A quality prop on either side of the scrum. I think it was in the MOC era when he started two games against Castres, one leg at LH and the other at TH, and absolutely melted their giant pack on both occasions. And in the 5+ years since then, he's very rarely played badly.

    It was a pity that his intro to Ireland was so contentious because I think he should have picked up more caps along the way.

    In hindsight I’d say he regrets having said yes to kidney.


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    #1497
    Dave_The_Sheep
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    Why so?


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    #1498
    stephen_n
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    swiwi_ wrote: »
    In hindsight I’d say he regrets having said yes to kidney.

    I don’t think so. For all the cr@p it stirred up at the time. It brought him to Leinster and I would say he very much is glad of that. It probably created a huge amount of expectation, that he had to come to terms with. He seemed to do that quite well though.


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    #1499
    sebdavis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 891 ✭✭✭sebdavis


    stephen_n wrote: »
    I don’t think so. For all the cr@p it stirred up at the time. It brought him to Leinster and I would say he very much is glad of that. It probably created a huge amount of expectation, that he had to come to terms with. He seemed to do that quite well though.

    Was it not Leinster were bringing him anyway, Kidney just met him at the airport instead of Leinster


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    #1500
    Former Former Former
    Registered Users Posts: 5,788 ✭✭✭Former Former Former


    sebdavis wrote: »
    Was it not Leinster were bringing him anyway, Kidney just met him at the airport instead of Leinster

    Yep, he was a Leinster signing but by the time he arrived, Fitzpatrick was injured, Buckley was done and there was quite literally no-one else to fill a green jersey.

    The mad thing was, he actually played quite well in those games, but it didn't matter.


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    #1501
    jacothelad
    Registered Users Posts: 5,926 ✭✭✭jacothelad


    Former Former Former wrote: »
    Yep, he was a Leinster signing but by the time he arrived, Fitzpatrick was injured, Buckley was done and there was quite literally no-one else to fill a green jersey.

    The mad thing was, he actually played quite well in those games, but it didn't matter.


    Yes, the poor guy never got a chance to draw breath and acclimatise. I always hoped he would move to Ulster when Moore, Furlong etc came to the fore. I suspect there was more than a tinge of xenophobia in some of the stuff about him in some quarters. He just got on with his job. Good man.


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