Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

Snyman would be a mistake, imo. He's been of little value for Munster.

Nyakane would be good for a 1 year deal.

I would be surprised if Jenkins got offered premium wages. He's not close to being a high level 2nd row. In fact, I think he's been a poor signing.

Leo needs to start locking lads down. Otherwise we could lose out on premium young lads.

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He's not got the job done consistently as a 2nd row. He could eventually, but I feel he's better served as a flanker. I assume he's playing this week as he wasn't involved on the weekend. He will probably line out at 6.

He really is a good line out operator and has great size for a blindside. I'd say he's not completely rounded out his game. Still is a damn fine player.

I think he will get a lot more game time going forward. It would have required all world play to unseat POM, or a complete loss of form. At Leinster it will be interested to see who is backed at 8. Conan has pretty consistently pushed Doris to 6 when they were both fit, which obviously makes it difficult for Baird to get a look in.

Rewatching the game back tonight. Jesus, and I know it's been said before, Keenan is such a classy player. It looked at times like he was just several steps ahead of everyone else on the pitch, always in the right position, just gliding around effortlessly doing everything pretty much to perfection. Even for the chase back it looked like he didn't have to try too much as he was jogging back to catch the nippy scrum half break in the second half. The assist for Ringrose was just languid, yeah I'll dummy that, there you go Garry. He makes it all look so easy.

I tend to agree, I think he's world class. But it was interesting on Twitter earlier someone posting that and a lot of southern hemisphere people weren't rating him as highly (probably not surprising!)

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The Indo reports that Conan and Henshaw are set to return for the Munster game. We need these lads for the big European fixtures to come, but I'd rather Osborne and one of Penny/Deegan is selected instead. All three have started the season well for Leinster and the former have no real form to speak of.

I think you're fairly on the money here. Nyakane would be an interesting signing and would fill a hole while we develop.

I also think people are wildly overestimating how much money Jenkins is on.

NIQ =/= highly paid superstar in every instance.

Ones value is largely summed up by International Caps and/ or Domestic league success. Jenkins has neither.

A solitary cap for South Africa in a friendly against Wales over 5 years ago (where they lost) and no success of note in Super Rugby or Japan.

We didn't sign him to be a game changer in our strongest 23. How strongly he started last season was a bonus on a player we took a punt on. We only got him due to a clerical error by Munster meant he was available.

In terms of wages I would imagine he is on less than half of what Alaala'toa is on and a good chunk less than what Ngatai is on also.

Think of the likes of Arno Botha for Munster. Decent pro, very few international caps. Can fill a gap and do a job and didn't cost much.

Tough call.

But if we are locked and loaded this week that would mean essentially all of our RWC players have been reintegrated and Leo has a full deck to choose from.

Players of note that will miss out this week would be the likes of Deegan, Baird, Molony, Penny, Osborne, Ngatai etc.

You'd imagine they'd be rotated in for Connacht

I doubt it would be Lood. More likely an under the radar type. Maybe a bokke? I would like Itoje!!!