Leinster v Leicester teams

RuggieBear

Leinster:

15: Girvan Dempsey
14: Shane Horgan
13: Brian O’Driscoll
12: Felipe Contepomi
11: Denis Hickie
10: David Holwell
9: Guy Easterby

1: Reggie Corrigan (Captain)
2: Shane Byrne
3: Ricky Nebbett
4: Malcolm O’Kelly
5: Leo Cullen
6: Ciaran Potts
7: Keith Gleeson
8: Eric Miller

Replacements:

16: Emmett Byrne
17: David Blaney
18: Des Dillon
19: Victor Costello
20: Shane Jennings
21: Brian O’Meara
22: Gordon D’Arcy
23: Kieran Lewis

Leicester Tigers:

15: Sam Vesty
14: Geordan Murphy
13: Ollie Smith
12: Daryl Gibson
11: Leon Lloyd
10: Andy Goode
9: Harry Ellis

1: Graham Rowntree
2: George Chuter
3: Julian White
4: Martin Johnson (Captain)
5: Louis Deacon
6: Lewis Moody
7: Neil Back
8: Martin Corry

Replacements (from):

James Buckland
Michael Holford
Darren Morris
Ben Kay/Brett Deacon
Henry Tuilagi
Will Johnson
Scott Bemand
Ross Broadfoot
Alesana Tuilagi
Austin Healey

Referee: Joel Jutge (Fra)


If darcy is fit enough to be on the bench he is fit enough to start imo....this is too important a game to be dicking around with players who aren't 100% fit

kenmc

If darcy is fit enough to be on the bench he is fit enough to start imo....this is too important a game to be dicking around with players who aren't 100% fit

Not necessarily.... he may be *fit* but will still not be match-fit. By having him on the bench it means that he can enter the fray when everyone else has played 50-60 mins and taken some knocks etc to slow them down a bit... will equalise his lack of match time a bit...
also there's an extra sub in the list which will be whittled down tomorrow.... could be that they're playing mind games and he's not really fit at all, but I desperately hope that is not the case.....
South Terrace here I come!!!!! Come on the nice weather we had a week ago.....

daveirl

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RuggieBear

strange decision to drop healy to the bench.....he has een a consistent thorn in irish sides over the last decade

kenmc

yeah - can't say i'm complainng though! and he's a smarmy little sh|t. he was mouthing off on the last lions tour, and now he's at it again after having been dropped for this game....

daveirl

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Trojan

re: Healy, sure he's a bit of a gimp, but I dunno about the mouthing off on the tour business. There was a lot wrong with that tour, and he wasn't the only one with a problem there. In fact, it was recently mentioned on here. Also, a lot of the mouthing off was ghost writing.

Arghhh, you have me defending Healy - WTF?!!!

marshmallow

leicester 29
leinster 6

this is the current score, not good. what does everyone else think?



(this is my 100th post! )

what a display from Leicester, far too dominant for my liking, a shaky start by both sides but then Leicester just taught us how to play rugby, we didn't even do that much wrong, they just did everything right!

Steffano2002

Do you think Shane Horgan is a good player? Granted he score a try (even though we couldn't really see him grounding the ball) but I don't think I've ever seen him play good reugby! I always find him poor, very poor...

BTW, this post is not to offend anybody. I was just wondering if other people thought the same...

RuggieBear

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what a display from Leicester, far too dominant for my liking, a shaky start by both sides but then Leicester just taught us how to play rugby, we didn't even do that much wrong, they just did everything right!

well we didn't exactly help our cause by giving away stupid penalties.....i don't mind penallties due to pressure like hands in the ruck or off side but not ones for stamping, late takle, obstruction etc. Those are the signs of a bad dicipline and lack of team focus...

Thought the turning point of the game was the missed penality at 6-3 to leicester...we were under huge pressure but we would have been level having only been in their half twice (a huge morale boost) but instead they were able to march down te fiels and score a coverted try.

daveirl

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CrowdedHouse

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Not too far off the mark there !