Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

Agree with this.

With Leinster being so far ahead for most of the last 15 years we just haven't frequently seen Leinster fans have to choose sides for or against another province in a big CC knock-out game when Leinster are sitting at home.

If continued success means other province fans supporting our opponents it is a very small price to pay.

Ah he got selection wrong v Munster if he had of gone stronger instead of resting players for game v LAR we would have won. Easy for me to say in hindsight though.Also to be fair the ref was woeful that day too( I never blame refs for defeats but he was shocking as he always is v leinster )

Do you cut and paste this for different threads?

That's fair, "badly" was probably too harsh

Might be a bit precious of me, but I very much dislike the tone being set by certain Irish rugby reporters. They'll always find an angle that allows them to talk down.

For the last few years it's been about Leinster bottling the finals when they've sailed through every other game and been untested. But after Leinster have been tested away to La Rochelle, away to Leicester, at home against a powerful Bulls side, they're now "limping" into the QF.

The media doesn't affect me or the team. I suppose. Click bait crap. I chuckle though when they say this player or player x must leave Leinster, for the benifit of Ireland and then laud these provinces when they do well, even though there's Leinster lads throughout the squad. Lol. Serious gowels the lot of them. Is there any decent reporter?

It's not checked you just scan at turnstile which is automated and not checked after that

It is really embarrassing for them. The medals will been seen as making it all worth it but a sad way to live.

Imagine after winning your trophy and in the aftermath rather than celebrating you're crying over the level of eye contact given during the coin toss and a bunch of other imagined slights in the build-up.

Will chuckle away with whatever nonsense ROG comes out with this week.

Echo what many are saying here. Whilst somewhat forced with the short turnaround, it is great to see such value for a Quarter Final of a European Cup in what is the glamour tie of the round.

I wonder what numbers are they expecting. From the ticket sale it looks like the upper west has not been released at all so seems it will be empty for the match. I do think this extra round of knockout games takes away from the knockouts in general. If this game was lined up for the last couple of months it would easily be a sell out. Fingers crossed they sell as many as possible. 5.30pm kick off is perfect too.

Oh yeah, understand that. It was more an observation about expectation about potential sales. You'd imagine if they were confident of a sell-out it would be on sale from the start. As I said hopefully they sell as many as possible.

They were atrocious against Leicester. I don't know why we go long when they're just going to run the ball back at us. James Lowe also had an off day and we didn't use Jamie Osborne once to kick the ball, who has a boot just as good as Lowe. Hopefully we switch to kicking to compete, using box kicks in our 22 and then when we are just in our own half using the Boks special with the out half sending up a huge kick at their wings and apply pressure.

If we kick half as badly as we did against Leicester it will be difficult to win the game, scoring a try was almost painful because I knew the **** clearances were coming.