Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

Left with the same feeling of the last few years that the need a thug in the pack. Al la rocky Elsom back in the day or o Mahoney for Ireland. McCarthy Baird doris and either of the 7s all brilliant players but don't strike put the fear into anyone. Experience too which is hard to hold against them but an old head says take 3 after the first 2/3 failed attempts.

This will be fixed with synman next year to some extent but it's hard to go back to the well that many times I feel.

Cullen has a fair bit to answer for and this should be the end of him.

Gutted for Leinster yesterday. Will always support the other Irish teams unless they are playing Ulster.

Leinster have a top tier pack. However they were maybe a fraction of yesterday, getting beat to the breakdown.

I think there are issues brewing in the backs. Jgp is top class, but you have to worry he's running on empty as he is key to Leinster and Ireland. Time to bring through some of the younger guys.

R Byrne is not the answer for Leinster. He's a level below what Leinster need. Time for Sam.

Keenan is world class, the others in the backline are nowhere near that level. Other than JoB is there anyone else coming through worth a look? I feel like if Leinster had one of the Toulouse wings they would have scored yesterday.

Finally - is it time to look at Cullen and review. I know it's fine margins but questions need to be asked.

YYeah I probably agree the next few games are important but it doesn't make any difference if they don't play the sub scrum half at all.

JGP is 32. He's playing great but this year and next year are likely the last bit before the decline due to age. Need to invest in the young lads from the start of next season at the latest.

I'd say it's already late but the young lads are still young, particularly Gunne (20) Foley is 24. But next season needs to be an investment in half backs and loosehead.

They have given milne decent gametime this year when he's available

It just seemed like Leinster were slightly off in attack yesterday lot of small errors and timing issues where support went past the ball carrier resulting in a few turnovers. One thing that came to my mind watching (as a Connacht fan wanting Leinster to win) was if the main players were a little undercooked in comparison to Toulose after not playing much rugby in the last few weeks? Its a fine balance between that and being rested/fresh I suppose.

The refs performance has been done to death so won't add anything to that which hasn't been said and Toulose were like men possessed at the breakdown.

He may work out in the long run. But there's no doubt that Leinster are a weaker, less structured side. I suppose it's a waiting game now, to see if it's a good fit. Watching Leinster recently is like watching Munster a couple of years ago. A lot of effort but little initiative.

Tyler Bleyendaal takes over from Goodman next season so we'll see what changes that brings to our attack.

Presumably he'll also arrive to coach during the pre-season to properly prepare the squad. I do think Leinster have suffered this year due to Goodman and Nienaber missing the opening fixtures due to World Cup duty.

The building blocks for the season are laid the month before it begins. Leinster had none of that.

Personally, I wouldn't be getting my hopes up too much over Bleyendaal. The biggest reason it's him coming in is probably Nienaber knows him from their time at Munster. He's a Nienaber acolyte.

Hopefully I'm wrong and I'll be pleasantly surprised. I haven't actually watched the Hurricanes play while he's been coaching there.

Leinster's attack needs to be way better. Toulouse, Northampton and Bordeaux look to have the edge on them there now.

Just going to have to win the league now. We've the best squad in the competition so I think we can do that. It'll be hard to mentally regroup after the loss, but I think they will.

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