URC Matchthread Week 2

hold my beer

Take the 3 here. Better passages of play there

Podge_irl

Good man Sam. No back to back donuts.

johnh6767

first points of the season at last !

degsie

Lets celebrate a score at least!

Clegg

This is a definite improvement over last week, as sad as that is. Set piece is solid and we've looked more prepared physically. But scramble defence has been crap as well as our handling.

And Will Connors is getting a card here.

A-Train

At least we are on the board.

Podge_irl

That is a yellow minimum.

A-Train

Conners will be blessed if this is anything bar red here.

AbusesToilets

Connors looking at a red here

Podge_irl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123877578#Comment_123877578

Ah I'd say that dip is enough to save him, but that was always going to be high. Silly stuff from him.

Larbre34

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123877560#Comment_123877560

We aren't f**king Zebre.

This is dire.

Paddy_Mag

Thats gonna be red card i feel.

Paul Smeenus

Absolutely brutal. Head on head at speed. Connor should be done for the night.

darkened_scrum

Play on. The Bulls player drops the ball causing a huge change in height. Connors is not high.

johnh6767

Cooney on fire looking like the real deal

Clegg

Henshaw, McGrath and Connors have been three of our worst performers so far. Hard to get anything out of a game when your most experienced players are letting you down.

Podge_irl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123877587#Comment_123877587

He's definitely high. The player dips so staying a yellow is fine, but the change in height isn't actually that much. Connors was going to be high either way.

Paul Smeenus

Connors very, very lucky.

Larbre34

Yellow is fair, Connors is tall, he was bent at both hip and knees, and stable. Any lower he ran the risk of being steamrolled. We must spread the risk and responsibility in line with the spirit of the game, ie, it was neither dangerous nor reckless.

AbusesToilets

where is the playing the 9 call there, when McGrath is smashed out under the sticks? Such a stupid new Law

AbusesToilets

Cooney, TOB and JOB are the only ones posing any threat to the Bulls.

Clegg

Leinster have been decent even down to 14. Happy with how the scrum is going. Whatever Tom Clarkson has done over the last 18 months has clearly worked.

Always had an impressive loose game, but he has come on so much as a scrummager.

Podge_irl

Absolutely excellent yellow card period from Leinster. Keeping the ball in hand much more than last week and it is working.

A-Train

Good to get a try from tough carries up front.

ersatz

first attack in the 22 and a try. About time. I’m not sure why people feel this is much better than last week though. There isn’t a payer out there who hasn’t made a significant unforced error.

AbusesToilets

Quite like our white jerseys, the colours are nice

pickarooney

Will Connors high tackle - I did not have that on my bingo card.

Clegg

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123877656#Comment_123877656

This is clearly a much improved performance over last week. Our lineout is stable and providing a clear platform to launch attacks from. Our scrum, bar the last one, has looked solid against a huge South African pack. And we're competing far better in the physicality stakes.

Leinster haven't been great, but they're playing to the levels you'd expect a side to be at early in the season. Last week we looked at least three weeks behind where we should have been.

Clegg

Yet again, McGrath and Henshaw just aren't executing to an adequate level.

Podge_irl

Amazing turnover and utterly wasted by Henshaw.