Leinster vs La Rochelle

Former Former Former

Getting creamed at the breakdown. Need a change of tactics.

Don't think we've kicked long once.

Clegg

We're losing every contest at the breakdown now including those on our own ball. This is every bit as bad as last week's struggles against Munster.

UAEguy2020

Funny enough I was thinking this was a repeat of Ulsters 2nd half against Leicester minus the kick out on the full....and then.

kilns

Big 3 minutes

crisco10

Lost Ormond wrote: »

The director cant influence what the TMO see's. The TMO has access to every screen and has a tech person beside them who will do everything regarding slowing down footage etc
The director cant stop the TMO from watching any angle

He can’t alright. But there is no harm having a partisan eye filtering and making their own replays

AbusesToilets

They're double tackling all of our carriers, we need to exploit the space that's leaving

degsie

Leinster now leaving players isolated pretty much every time they are taken to ground.

A-Train

Leinster getting destroyed today. Cant get any foothold in the game.

Deusexmachina

Ah Christ, we look beaten. A very trigger happy ref isn’t helping.
I despair at the thought of even more deification of OGara from the Irish media. Just because he pauses before he speaks, they think he’s a genius.

Clegg

That was another poor kick from McGrath.

You'd have to guess that he'd be off now if JGP were fit.

crisco10

Could be game here.

UAEguy2020

This is all a result of being so wasteful in the La Rochelle half when we had our purple patch. La Rochelle were allowed get back on their feet and now they are throwing punches. Will take a miracle for Leinster to swing this momentum now.

theVersatile

Skelton is a freak

Weepsie

I'm in and out of the room for this match doing other things. Every time I come in the ref seems to be giving a penalty for something. It's like the game has absolutely no flow so I'm missing nout

Is this the about right?

crisco10

Weepsie wrote: »

I'm in and out of the room for this match doing other things. Every time I come in the ref seems to be giving a penalty for something. It's like the game has absolutely no flow so I'm missing nout

Is this the about right?

Think the count is about 26 for the game

swiwi_

Lucky he called no try.

KaneToad

We're on the ropes. This scrum will result in a try...

crisco10

Yay. 5m scrum

Exclamation Marc

Lost Ormond wrote: »

The director cant influence what the TMO see's. The TMO has access to every screen and has a tech person beside them who will do everything regarding slowing down footage etc
The director cant stop the TMO from watching any angle

You can literally hear the TMO asking the director if they're all the angles they have.

sydthebeat

All these pens and tmo reviews are allowing LAR to catch a breather which is working against Leinsters plan

sydthebeat

Why wasn't the yellow card allowed back on??

UAEguy2020

swiwi_ wrote: »

Lucky he called no try.

Just a stay of execution based on how the game has gone.

Clegg

So utterly deflating.

We've had the same problem for the last three seasons where if the opposition can get parity or a slight advantage up front we fall apart.

And now a bigger issue now appears to have cropped up in that we've lost discipline at the ruck, an area we've prided ourselves in for years.

degsie

Ah nuts

swiwi_

Too long to change the forwards. Needed new front row at least at about 50 minutes. Leinster out on their feet.

theVersatile

Big score

KaneToad

KaneToad wrote: »

We're on the ropes. This scrum will result in a try...

Good observation.

razorblunt

No arms from Baird there.

fitz

Loss of Ruddock has been telling.

DJIMI TRARORE

Try for lar

A-Train

That’s game

Squidgy Black

That's game I think.

Such a disappointing second half, particularly after the way we started.

KaneToad

KaneToad wrote: »

Good observation.

Thanks

Teferi

That's the game.

crisco10

Clegg wrote: »

So utterly deflating.

We've had the same problem for the last three seasons where if the opposition can get parity or a slight advantage up front we fall apart.

And now a bigger issue now appears to have cropped up in that we've lost discipline at the ruck, an area we've prided ourselves in for years.

It is. The template to beat Leinster is clear if you have the personnel.

Eod100

That was coming. Massive score.

Bridge93

We’ve been dreadful since the 10th minute

Sangre

Seems like that is game over. Leinster haven't fired a shot in about 50 minutes.

Eod100

Time yet for Leinster but needing 2 scores and momentum with LAR no easy task.

fitz

He was assist tackler and didn't release, no?

Edit: released, but hands on the ground. Soft.

Bridge93

Been annihilated at the breakdown

crisco10

Eod100 wrote: »

Time yet for Leinster but needing 2 scores and momentum with LAR no easy task.

The last 2 possessions have ended in holding on penalties. So frustrating

Squidgy Black

We've struggled a bit this season with the new breakdown interpretations, clearouts aren't fast enough

Benny Cake

Deusexmachina wrote: »

Ah Christ, we look beaten. A very trigger happy ref isn’t helping.
I despair at the thought of even more deification of OGara from the Irish media. Just because he pauses before he speaks, they think he’s a genius.

Rog always was world class at getting under the (thin) skin of leinster fans!
Great to see he hasn't lost it

degsie

Ref blowing after a microsecond in the breakdown...

KaneToad

Agree with Drico...hands on the ground first...

normanbond

La Rochelle in control, looking good for them now

Exclamation Marc

Leinster looking so blunt. Which is even more disappointing after the opening ten minutes. Can't seem to string long plays together.

Squidgy Black

degsie wrote: »

Ref blowing after a microsecond in the breakdown...

That's the new interpretation though, if you're on the ball legally as first man and still keep hands on it as you're cleared out it's your penalty.

UAEguy2020

And that’s the difference, if it was does reversed we would have concede another cheap penalty. We have been wasteful going forward and extremely ill disciplined defensively which is the standard tragic Irish performance that leads to a defeat.