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Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

.ak

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
-Harry Byrne, Muad'Dib

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Former Former Former

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122099210#Comment_122099210

Sharks are in the Challenge Cup final

I’m not sure he was being entirely serious

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122099215#Comment_122099215

Maybe have another read of the post you quoted and try again.

sydthebeat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122099215#Comment_122099215

You're such a grinch trying to be completely miserable you can't even read properly these days.

Just give it up, it's a boring cliche at this stage

P.Walnuts

Was sat beside 3 munster lads cheering on NH, that's quite an impressive level of spite

Bogwoppit

Agree on the Northampton fans, they were top class in Cardiff in what were very difficult circumstances for them and they were top class again yesterday.

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122099205#Comment_122099205

Very hard call on who I’d most like to get back - I still think I’d lean towards Keenan but it’s tight between him and Ryan.

Just feel both our attack and our defence are a different proposition with Keenan there.

The Iron Giant

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122099243#Comment_122099243

I think Keenan is the better of the three players but Ryan would be the biggest improvement to the team as it is

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122098529#Comment_122098529

Really glad to hear this, think it’s 100% the right approach.

You obviously run a higher risk of injury but think there’s more to be gained by getting the team more battle hardened and more match fit.
We have a lot of quality depth too, and this is where it’s so valuable.

SaoPaulo41

Is Ryan gone for the season? Will really need him for the final

[Deleted User]

JGP gets a lot of plaudits but he was commander in chief of Leinster deciding to not play rugby for 25 minutes. Repeatedly box kicking from 1st phase, nearly cost us.

Haven't watched it back but in the stadium it seemed quite a low quality rugby match

Also the ref allowing a penalty to be taken whilst Frawley was in bits was outrageous, and they scored off it.

The Iron Giant

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122099323#Comment_122099323

Also the ref allowing a penalty to be taken whilst Frawley was in bits was outrageous, and they scored off it.

Shocking decision. Frawley had clearly taken a heavy hit and wasn't intentionally slowing the game down. That sort of refereeing will encourage deliberate time wasting.

Refereeing decisions seemed a real mixed bag yesterday with both teams suffering very poor calls.

[Deleted User]

He allowed a Lawes turnover around the 72nd min too when Lawes couldn’t have possibly been any more in the side. It was obvious and blatant and he called play on.

Clegg

Just finished rewatching the game. We were very good defensively in the first half. Northampton made a lot of handling errors, partly down to nerves, but also due to how fast Leinster were off the line. You could see that Northampton were trying to thread their way through the rush with offloading out of contact and with inside passes. But they couldn't handle the pressure Leinster's defence brought.

A negative though is how wasteful Leinster were in attack. I think we had seven entries into the 22 and scored two trys off our first two entries. After that though, we only got 3 points from our next 5 visits. Our ball carrying was generally pretty good. VDF, McCarthy and Doris consistently got over the gain line. Also saw a lot of offloading out of tackles to keep the attacks going.

So it wasn't physicality that let us down near the line. It looked like we weren't comfortable in our attacking patterns. When Leinster tried going further out than the first or second man, near or in the 22, Northampton were comfortable in dealing with it. Maybe that's a symptom of the game plan though. Northampton gave up a lot of metres close to the ruck and most of our attacks were centred there. When we moved the ball wide we didn't do so with enough effort to disguise it and kept failing to convert possession and territory into points.

Clegg

Btw Lowe's third try was excellent and completely atypical of how Leinster usually attack. It had four offloads out of contact, starting with Furlong, to keep the attack flowing and continually put Northampton's defence on the back foot.

Under Lancaster our attack was more focussed on speed at the ruck and a highly drilled pod system. Now our systems don't appear to be as tight, but we've introduced a greater variety to our game by keeping the ball alive and making the opposition defence disorganised.

Cork29

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122099389#Comment_122099389

clegg Leinster were rubbish yesterday. That is the only summary needed

P.Walnuts

Sounds like some new contracts will be announced throughout the day

El_Duderino 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122099323#Comment_122099323

Yeah this really confused me. Northampton got back into the game during that phase of kicking. I couldn't understand why leinster kept kicking when it seemed to advantage the opposition. Leinster were on top with ball in hand.

Maybe there were great reasons to keep kicking, which are above my understanding, but I certainly didn't get it.

theVersatile

https://twitter.com/leinsterrugby/status/1787074772192366734?t=Vg8yvZe13mYW9WLOR3ofhA&s=19

Baird extends

OldRio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122099354#Comment_122099354

He told him to leave it first, Lawes ignored him, and then he called play on. Very odd

cheese sandwich

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122099197#Comment_122099197

Did you think so? I thought it was only ok - very loud at times but there were plenty of quiet periods. Like Leinster I suppose.

I actually enjoyed the lack of drinking in the seats though, it was good not having to get up and down constantly for people going to the bar or the jacks

Clegg

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122098705#Comment_122098705

This is the clip I'm talking about. Jenkins enters the ruck perfectly legally. Healey whinged about Leinster side entry, but there are two Northampton players with far dodgier arrivals.

https://twitter.com/rugbyontnt/status/1786827079167696900?t=4IE7aBnkyRBWOC32G-xQsw&s=09

pickarooney

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122099210#Comment_122099210

Which bit? Sharks are, or were, having an absolute catastrophe of a season. Bottom of the league below Dragons and Zebre. They're now just one win against Gloucester from winning a trophy, albeit in a different competition, and qualifying for the CC.

Benetton were second and now look like missing out completely on the CC next year (e.g. if Sharks win the Challenge Cup or other results put them out of the top 8)

Leinster were top of the league but still need 3 knockout wins to take the URC title and have a huge battle on their hands to avoid losing a third successive European final.

The Iron Giant

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122099571#Comment_122099571

I thought the atmosphere was hit and miss. At times, it was electric, at others it was fairly quiet for large stretches, and at times the Saints fans sounded like the majority.

As silly as it sounds, one of Leinsters problems is that they don't have a song or a chant like The Fields of Athenry, When the Saints go Marching In, Swing Low etc. for the crowd to get behind and it ends up just yelling Leinster on repeat as the default.

Burkie1203

ANy guesses on who else will be announced today

The Iron Giant

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122099735#Comment_122099735

Healy maybe? Can see him having at least one more year.

Burkie1203

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122099740#Comment_122099740

It's two years since connors and RByrne signed deals. Wonder if they might be next

ongarite

Baird sings new contract.

Yeah_Right

TNT Sports showed an interesting stat yesterday on the total number of minutes played this season by each 23. Leinster had about 10.5k and Northampton had about 15.5k. That's club minutes so would be interesting to see it with international matches included. But nearly 50% more is still significant and highlights Leinster's depth.

Burkie1203

https://twitter.com/leinsterrugby/status/1787120062639264154?t=fQ2NasnuDdC4VMQSbo13gQ&s=19

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P.Walnuts

Boyle signs a senior contract