Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

Pretty flat performance and plenty of brainless moments from players who should know better, Doris reminded me of his brain fart in the 1/4 final. The lack of leadership really showed in the 22, no ideas which is something I wouldn't expect to see from Leinster, and still not taking early points. Thats not a mistake Toulouse made. Leinster teams have been inventive and risk taking for 15 years. To me it feels like the worm has turned here and it will be hard to get this team to a higher level. The ten situation has been allowed to fester from indecision, surely for the coaches its been an obvious truth that neither HB nor RB are European winning tens and someone should have been brought in. That Ireland overlooks both is a lesson Leinster haven't learned. Unfortunately this result also gives the bounce of a ball brigade another might have won final to kid themselves with.

I don't like nienabar with his defensive crap and 6 2 bench splits, this leaving vdf and Ryan on bench to have a bomb squad to bring on is ridiculous too, start your best team. Leinster have gone backwards massively since stu left and I would be getting rid of mcbride too in favour of an upgrade

He's been in situ for too long, imo. I thought he would have moved into Humphries role. Whatever about previous seasons and accomplishment, he's got as far as he can with this squad. Imo

I understand the scheme and the possibilities. But what irks me is chucking Hugo and Ryan into the cauldron with so little match time.

Replying to tommysocks

Leaving JOB out when he was in very good form was also questionable. Not sure what the 6/2 was about given Cian came in so late, did McGrath even come on? I don't think he did.

Any "loan" concerning Sam P, needs to be nulled. Sam should play a part for whatever remaining matches Leinster have left.

People saying that Leinster were wrong to not kick the points and keep going for tries because they kept getting repelled are forgetting the fact that Leinster did score 2 legitimate tries but were denied by the referee’s.
Im sure someone will come on and say you should play the referee better and adjust your game. Nonsense, you can adjust for a ref’s interpretation but you can’t adjust for a ref getting the laws blatantly wrong or making obvious mistakes.

For a non existent knock on.

100%

Joe touched the ball and it went (slightly) forward before JGP threw the pass. They’re the margins! Correct decision unfortunately.

What a game. One of the best I’ve been to. Toulouse well deserved winners. They were ahead all game and Leinster were always chasing. Kinghorn kicked like a dream and Dupont was unbelievable. Huge credit to Leinster who kept plugging away when the little margins weren’t going their way. Frawley so close to winning it at the end of the 80. Jaysus sport can be cruel but still a trophy there to be won this year so not as disappointing as last year.

Really impressed by the Tottenham stadium. Facilities were superb which is usually a big stumbling part for many stadiums where you have a queue for 15mins for a pee or a beer! Really enjoyable day despite coming out on the wrong side but onwards and upwards.

Leinster kept Toulouse tryless for 80 minutes. That's a major accomplishment that now seems pointless after failing to win.

The game was there to be won in regulation time rather than extra time too. We had 12 entries to their 22 in the first half alone, but only came away with 6 points. We turned down at least two shots at the posts in that half from what I remember.

This loss will hurt for a long time.

So onto the Connacht game , who will we see?

probaby,Russell,Ringrose,Ngati,Lowe,Harry ( hope its Frawley) Foley, Healy, Keheller , Mike, Moloney, Ryan/ Deeny,Deegan,Penny ,Conan

Need to fast track new half backs. Playing mcgrath in particular is a waste of time. The coaches clearly don't actually want to play him so might as well prioritise Foley and Gunne. Even if they're not as good or liable to make mistakes now, they need to make the investment.

Having a fresh scrum half to lift the tempo in the last quarter is really important. Mcgrath on the bench and not using him at all over 100minutes shows a failure of development