Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

I like these matches too. Excited to see the potential of the future lads. In a way, it's like watching the passing of a torch. Big, big chance for Max O'Reilly who's a year 3 academy player. His last performance wasn't good. Then there's Turner, he's been great. I don't know what to expect from Brownlee?

Having Luke, Deegan and Connors is a plus. Molony as usual, always there when needed. I think Deeny will go well as he looks to have the tools. I rated him at u20.

Not very confident. Any kind of points would be ok.

Nope, Leinster still runaway favourites. Hmmm.

We generally win at home, but this team looks particularly callow to me, so I wouldn't be confident of a result. We've won 43 from 49 games in the RDS over the past 5 years. The losses where we should have won probably total two games — the game vs the Bulls last season and when we went with a strong team at home vs Glasgow in April 2019. The remaining four games were from similar second and third string teams (vs Connacht, Ospreys, Munster and Ulster).

It is telling that Glasgow are one of the 6 teams that have beaten us at home in the past 5 years, and one of two that faced a good Leinster squad, so I would be at least a little bit worried about this one.

Jenkins hopes to be back within the next few weeks.

Very nervous about today's match. Ulster did us a massive favor. Let's hope we get something today.

Looking forward to seeing what Max O can do. Brownlee too. Big task for HB. He's getting a good run out these days.

Two tickets available if anyone wants them. Grandstand also.

A Leinster win would see us go 15 points ahead of Stormers and 17 ahead of Ulster albeit both would have a game in hand. Would give Leinster a great opportunity to rest and rotate out even more players before the South African tour and have them ready for the Ulster game. We also have the Stormers at the RDS in March. A victory could all but guarantee top spot as well.

Today's squad isn't the strongest, but there's a huge incentive to win.

That's another tap and go trick play try. Lovely reverse pass from McGrath to Deegan.

Deegan has been quality in the opening 20 minutes. Hard carries, great footwork and offloading.

That was a thing of beauty.

That's the most intricate tap and go try we've seen yet. Lovely there were four passes in the space of about three seconds. Loop plays dummy lines and inside passes.

Leinster running onto the pitch accompanied by what sounds like a Eurovision song from Moldova from 2004?

Connors immediately showing his class since coming on

The double is on

Acknowledging that Cardiff were atrocious, that was still very satisfying.

All the young guys seemed perfectly in tune with the patterns and system, which is a tribute to the coaching I think.

Great to see Connors back and putting himself about so much.

Harry Byrne had a very good match, which he really needed.

Dragons up next. The 2nd to last home match. Maybe Jenkins is back. That'd be a great boost.

So we're going well with points and we are out in front. Ulster helped out on Friday. We probably won't field a 1st team for the next 3 matches. Some lads should be returning. I'd have like to see Frawley get some time at out half. If he gets back soon, maybe he gets into the match v Stormers?

Good shout out by HB. Looked sharp.