Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

Dunno why you're saying that. One thing worse than a bad loser is a bad and ungracious winner. No class at all.

Some sort of bust up between Sexton, SOB, ROG and Skelton.

I admire a new account set up entirely to troll.

Leinster are great at many things. They've huge work rate in defence to make the tackle, roll away and reload back into the defensive line. They're generally excellent at finding the correct spacing in the line after as well.

I do think that what we lack is a genuine threat at the ruck. Porter and Doris are capable of making turnovers, but they generally don't go for it unless it's obviously on. I think we've sacrificed the possibility of going for turnovers in favour of maintaining integrity in the defensive line. Thag works brilliantly against every side up to the final. But La Rochelle have such huge men that if you constantly let them have possession and recycle at the ruck, without the risk of losing the ball, that they'll run riot.

It's something I hope Nienaber tweaks. We need a greater threat at the ruck.

I would suggest that they focus on winning the URC. That's the bread and butter for the provinces. A good run in the Champions Cup is a bonus.

At least bring home a trophy. What happened last week can't be allowed happen again.

Sorry to you leinster fans for the way you all feel tonight. That was a harsh pill to swallow.

But as much as the firensic cynics will be out with their knives, I think leinster don't need to change much of what they're doing.

For me, leinster fcuked up 4 exits from their own 22 in the first twenty minutes of the second half. That was the losing of the game imo.

2 from JPG, and 2 from Lowe. Pressure should have been relieved on 4 different occasions, and wasn't. Sliced kicks, balls out on the full after being brought back inside their own 22. And they were in succession.

The leinster forwards must have cringed with each of those, and it had an awful cumulative effect. Leinster pack became less and less effective in the tackle as a consequence. Exhausted and visually so.

If I was a leinster fan tonight, I'd be sore and sorry, but I definitely wouldn't be looking for any heads to roll.

Need I remind anyone that RB hit the post twice tonight when trying to convert?

Ye lost by 1 guys.

1.

Horrendously harsh to take, and people will counter my point by highlighting that you were 17 points up at home, and squandered it.

But ye barely lost that. A hair's breath. And to a fcuking good team.

Ye're still in a good place even if it doesn't feel like it right now.

The more I think about it the more I believe that resting players was a bad move. Admittedly, I was all for it. It burned us in the end.