Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

Bernard Jackman saying he's heard Ringrose will be unavailable for the La Rochelle game.

That's a blow, but it's a bit of a consolation that Osborne has played so well today.

Osborne should be penalised for that

Osborne in particular is superb at getting a pass off on the gain line.

Going to travel up from Sligo to watch Leinster next week if I can get tickets. When and where they going in sale. This is from a connacht fan

I think we took off a lot of front line players once the game was in the bag.. that lead to a lack of cohesion..

The Stomers stretched LAR by keeping the ball alive, we will need to do something similar.

Leinster played down a bit to their opponents, the type of performance you expect the weekend before a big knockout game.

Impossible for them knowing LAR were on the horizon in advance to not impact the performance.

They'll need to be better next week and they'll know it. That level of competition and physicality will do them good - it was solid but not too attritional, like the Stormers were.

Fingers crossed no major injuries.

There is always a chance .

Jackman highlighting the problems in defence. The rush only works when everyone picks up their correct marker. On multiple occasions Larmour was caught too narrow and was looking to make the hit that Henshaw had covered.

I'd be half tempted to start Rob Russell against La Rochelle. He's very fast off the mark and can get in the face of the opposition quickly.

RTE just mentioned O’Gara is doing a training camp in Cork next week for LAR. Does anyone else find it very strange that Munster fans would willingly cheer on a foreign team against an Irish team in a quarter final?

Thought Pollard was good tonight. Wouldn’t happen but would love if Leinster went after him. H Byrne and Prendergast would learn a tonne off him too.

Think we might go with a 6-2 split for next week. I assume Connors will start to try and recreate his tackling masterclass from last December. The extra forward lets us bring VDF and Conan on for impact too.

Maybe even select Milne ahead of Healy for maximum impact in contact. Sacrifices your scrum a bit, but I think we need to take risks to best La Rochelle.

Demented Molecast made an interesting point this week on Russell that he refuses to tackle on one shoulder. Haven’t been savvy enough to pick up on that myself yet, but if so, might explain why he hasn’t got a start in a bigger game yet.

Bonkers if he said that, they are clearly in our head. Was weird everyone sitting around me at the game were resigned to us loosing to LAR , so I can't imagine what team think. Big week ahead now for coaches.