Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

Oh yeah, I know he's IQ. I was just giving context in terms of how he is qualified i.e. through a Dublin connection. He doesn't have a dad from Limerick or something where he's going to be very interested in moving to Munster because of it or a mother from Belfast etc.

Switching post standdown only applies if you qualify under (a) and (b) of 8.1 so would apply to Dan Kelly based on what others have said. You can't switch to a new country based on residency.

8.1 Subject to Regulation 8.2, a Player may only play for the senior fifteen-a-side National Representative Team, the next senior fifteen-a-side National Representative Team and the senior National Representative Sevens Team of the Union of the country with which the Player has a genuine, close, credible and established national link in which:

(a) the Player was born; or 

(b) one parent or grandparent was born; or

(c) the Player has completed sixty [1] consecutive months of Residence immediately preceding the time of playing; or

(d) the Player has completed ten years of cumulative Residence preceding the time of playing.

Has Ross Byrne got 201 Leinster caps already? That's some going

No Milne! That is an indicator that he's leaving, imo.

Is Martin maloney injured ?

I think Boyle already has tbh. Very impressed by his performances this season.

Me too. And a lot can happen in a year development with solid game time. But I think it's fair to say that Boyle isn't at Milnes level when he was fit and firing. The end of last season he was absolutely excellent.

To be expected given the 4 year age gap.

But Boyle was the highest rated underage prop since Porter for a reason. I'm sure he will come good. Big 18 months coming for him

Especially with McCarthy coming up behind him.

The Benneton side is pretty decent considering they've as many players missing as Leinster. They've also a few guys on the bench who played against Ireland last weekend.

Have to hope that Leinster's strong pack and half backs see them through.

I'm imagine Byrne isn't on a huge contract so would probably be a relatively cheap insurance policy behind Porter & Boyle regardless of whether Healy stays. I'd be sorry to see Milne leave though.

9 St Michael’s in that starting line up. Plus whatever amount is with Ireland at the moment. Pretty incredible what they have produced in the last number of years.

Barring tighthead prop you could make a fairly decent team out of only Michaels players haha. Come to think of it their track record of producing props and centres is relatively callow given their insane success elsewhere. (I'm thinking all the way back to twice capped Royce Burke Flynn as the most recent example of another prop - surely there's been others?)

Boyle, Kelleher, A/N other

Molony, Ryan

Baird, Deegan, Penny

McGrath, Ross

Harry, Cosgrove

Russell, McErlean, Gunne (or Andrew Smith if we want to cheat slightly)

You would think there'd be some zaga lads getting a shot, seeing they won last year and finalists the year before.