Connacht vs Leinster Sportsground Saturday December 2nd 7.35 live on Rte

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Who are the generational talents?

sydthebeat

Job done

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I was listening to RTE and no, it isn't.

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Something not right at Leinster. Poor last week and again tonight. Accuracy not there. Wins covering the cracks. Munster and Connacht should have both got it over the line over the last few weeks.

StormForce13

He sure is!

But it's the ref who awarded the penalty who is to blame - every prop who can con a referee will do so, and fair dues to them for trying it.

But thanks be to goodness that Connacht didn't get away with that gamesmanship.

7 Leinster wins in a row in the Sportsground will keep me happy for a few weeks.

I thought Leinster were … pretty bad. I also thought Connacht were not great but if they played their first team from start probably would have won it.

i thought the last ten minutes, it was weird that more of those weren’t scrum penalties. Connacht can probably feel hard done by there. That lineout wasn’t straight but straight enough imo but that’s neither here nor there.

Leinster points wise are a similar team to last year but in actual play, they haven’t really looked as good this year.

Also, i’m pretty sure that lenihan said that leinster were a championship team when they scored. They aren’t Donal, if you are reading lol.

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That ball was not out when he was first grabbed by the leinster 9.

Larbre34

Great analysis of Leinster's major issues on the night by Jackman there.

Some clear uncertainty of effort that Cullen will have to get Nienaber onto quick smart.

LostArt

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Fair enough. Personally thought they were w*nking themselves silly while Connacht were leading

StormForce13

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Shouldn't you be licking your wounds after Ulster's humiliating defeat instead of pretending that you're a qualified referee?

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Listen here to the commentary for that try

https://twitter.com/URCOfficial/status/1731065096586072386?t=jhfSDwFL33Zd7VAFhQMi0Q&s=19

Podge_irl

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Connacht were up to nonsense in the scrums. They were clearly retreating on the hit and making Leinster overextend.

We were indeed bad though.

Podge_irl

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It was. The scrum pushed past the ball.

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Well then that should be a penalty to leinster? Call it one way or the other.

I thought the ball was still in. May need to see another replay.

Must love hardship

Leinster made 14 changes from last week and will most likely make 13 or 14 again for next week.

It wasn't a great performance but they won away with a bonus point.

Found out plenty about a few players.

Osborne looks to be injured unfortunately. Hopefully Jack Conan didn't pick up a tweak as didn't come on even through culhane came off.

Podge_irl

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Yeah, I think it probably should have been a few penalties to Leinster. But it is what it is and scrums are always a mess.

I think it was absolutely pitch perfect timing from Foley (Murphy? Can't remember who was on at the time). The ball was out a microsecond when he tackled Blade.

leakyboots

Munster weren't in good shape this time last year and the coaches were telling the players it'll click later in the season... you'd back Nienaber to pull it together with the players at his disposal. You would wonder what Leo and co. have been up to since Lancaster left though, they don't look like they're as well drilled as in previous seasons

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I see what you mean by scrum shenanigans but usually when a ref settles on a picture (and he seemed to have settled on leinster being the problem) they stick with it. For just one sequence he goes away from that and refuses to give a penalty. I’d be pretty annoyed by that if i was connacht. A penalty that deep in leinster’s half is probably the game.

dublinman1990

I'm still in disbelief over the result of that match. It was a close one. I thought Leinster were going to lose it altogether when they were trying to go against Connacht within the first 15 minutes.

From that point on; if Leinster were seen to be losing their grip in the match; it was going to be the main driving force for their overall downfall against Connacht. However I was wrong.

As soon as Frawley went over with the BP try to win it against Connacht. That feeling sort of lead to having a confused outcome in my head in the end. Leinster did not feel like they had any confidence to win this match from the very start.

They were very sloppy in defence at crucial points of the match.

Connacht had a lot of issues with keeping their defence in check as well against Leinster.

When Connacht had scored those 3 amazing tries to keep it to a 3 point gap. It felt like they had a lot of luck in their team from the get-go.

But a cruel twist of fate resulted in Connacht losing their grip in the whole match to let the opposing side win it in the end. It was heart in the mouth stuff. Although it wasn't a perfect game to make it go that way. It was a haphazard outcome which lead to some bizarre outcomes for both sides as the final whistle blew for FT.

What an insane game of rugby.

StormForce13

That's two weeks in a row that we've been refereed by Buzzer and two weeks in a row that he has made a complete Horlicks of the scrums.

Both weekends, Leinster were the team that lost out to his interpretations. Where was Brace this evening anyway?

bingobango12

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Top of the table, usual starters have played two games, bonus point victory with nobody that will start next week bar Henshaw, more players at the World Cup than any other club. I think it’s going fine.

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Could it be that refs are copping on to Leinster's dark arts at scrum time.

Certainly last week, I felt Porter got away with driving in at an angle on a few scrums.

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I thought they got away with a clear wheel last week and that got called this week. So, this could be true.

Dubinusa

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In my opinion, he's a Dragons level coach. Horrendous. Goodman is not much better. Stu! Come back! Please!

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I thought Archer in particular got away with a few barn door penalties last week.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121447332#Comment_121447332

The results have gone their way but performances have been poor. The last 2 weeks especially have been littered with inaccuracy that you normally wouldn’t associate with Leinster over the last few years no matter who they put out on the pitch.