Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

Disappointing end to the game for him. He played well when he came on but he always seems to have one brain fart per game.

Big Joe head and shoulders best player out there IMO. Super performance on both sides of the ball and still making impacts up to the last play.

Great win for Ulster. Hats off to Billy Burns for those 3 kick assists. Cut open Leinster defence with surgical precision. Review won’t be pretty for Nienaber.

McCarthy was good in fairness! But yes, Burns was the best 10 on the pitch tonight.

McCarthy was the best player on the pitch tonight.

Prendergast is 20 and played well enough for his age and experience.

You're going to have to explain what's wrong about praising an excellent performance.

People aren't saying he was.

I've not once said that Prendergast was the best 10 tonight. You've decided that.

Dave_The_Sheep:

Read Cleggs' posts, mate.

I think you'll need to. I was happy with how Prendergast played.

Tell me where I said he was the best 10.

He was talking about McCarthy. Not Prendergast.

Lads, Clegg said McCarthy was the best player on the pitch.

Maybe the confusion (which I must have added to) is that I responding to the commentators, who spent 60% (on Viaplay) taking about how lovely Prendergast .

Positives are McCarthy continuing to improve and Baird yet again taking apart another sides lineout. Our bench also made a positive impact in terms of keeping up territorial dominance.

We're currently unable to exploit that dominance, but hopefully that'll come in time. Getting Ross Byrne back would go a long way. He'll never be a top class 10, but he's the best decision maker of all the current options available.

Shows what I know... great win for Ulster

I'm not arguing - nor did I ever - who the best player on the pitch was, nor who the best 10 was. I pointed out, accurately, that nobody had said that Prendergast was the best 10 on the pitch, even Clegg. That's all I said. You were making that up and arguing with yourself. Given you posted something very similar - if not nearly word for word - half way through the game in the Ulster thread, you had a chip on your shoulder about the Leinster-centric focus Prendergast was getting and decided to take it here as well. That's just my read on things though. I won't be responding on the matter (Prendergast, Burns, McCarthy, etc) again.

Like I said earlier in the thread, congrats on the win. I thought Burns was great tonight, easily the best 10 on the pitch and he stitched Leinster up like a kipper multiple times from hand. Ulster managed the second half superbly without a lot of possession and some of the defense at the end was fantastic. It's a great result for Ulster.

Enjoy the win!