Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

In the case of Lansdowne open training session I kind of get the radio silence from Leinster and I'd be one of their biggest critics about how radio silent they are (borderline disdainful to their own fan base at times)

However Lansdowne is an extremely accessible club for a large metro population. If the open training session is advertised and picks up steam, we could easily be seeing hundreds and possibly thousands of people hopping on the dart or the bus hoping to go along to it - schools are off after all.

Then it doesn't become a little open training session, it becomes an event, proper stewarding, possibly Garda presence and different insurance/ health and safety measures become factors.

It's such a dull and generic kit. Slap a Bath crest on there and it could just as easily be them as there is nothing distinctive about it.

Maybe manufacturers want to keep them generic to keep their mass production costs down, but it's just a nothing effort.

It's just a tighter cut, isn't it? Might be worth it if you want to put on the gun-show. Could probably see your abs through it too.

I would be going for the regular, nice and loose fit

I'm okay with the BOI bit being iron-on. I scraped some of it off on my hoody and now it reads 'Park of Ireland'.

leinster only need him to make 2 or 3 impacts this season and thats in maybe 2 knockout games in europe off the bench to perhaps influence a semi or a finla in leinsters way, thats what hes being signed for, not to be a work horse Mike Trigg. Sprinkled in at the business end in a couple games is what they want. Granted a definite gamble but thats the one they made

a Hayden Triggs signing would be great, he was a good performer at league level, nice and steady. RGS was signed for a different reason.
I remember you when Triggs was leaving someone suggested he would be a good signing for Connacht and one or two Connacht supporters scoffed at that level of signing. He was a solid player and signings like that add a bit to squads.

Would you put money on him staying fit for the season? Or even for the business end of it? People are right to be concerned, he has an absolutely horrendous injury profile. We don't need to see him play any more games to see that.

No idea where 'Mike' came from but ye Hayden,

You dont have to agree with it but thats why they signed him, Leinster are confident of making the play offs but they want big players in big games with experience of winning big important knock out games and RG is that.

Its a gamble but so are most signings, they couldve also signed a sub par journeyman that is of no use in the knockouts but can fill a jersey in the URC but i'm not sure thats a good decision either especially with Deeny and O'tiernagh sitting there who need game time.

People need to get it through their head Snyman was signed to be a Brad Thorn, not a Scott Fardy.

Snyman is not remotely on the same plane of existence as Brad Thorn was and tbh I have seen little enough evidence that he is even as good as Fardy was. You seem to be equating Fardy with journeymen like Triggs and Jenkins, that's not accurate at all, he was top quality.

Pre outrage has to be the most bizarre mindsets for people to have

I don't think anyone is pre-outraged, it just seems like an odd signing for what we need.

Brad Thorn came in and was possibly the best player - not just second row - in an absolutely star-studded Leinster team in 2012. Maybe Barrett can be that sort of player but that is categorically not what we're getting with Snyman; it's unlikely he makes a first-choice XV, so we need him for depth, not impact.

You cannot discuss RGS without discussing his injuries, it's hardly "hyperbole" to be concerned about a guy who played 20 games for Munster in four seasons.

If he can stay fit, he'll be a good addition to the squad, but that's an enormous "if".

Brad Thorn played 8 games for us.

He played 8 games because he was only here on a three-month contract. Snyman is here for the season.

And made an impact in all of them in the business end of the season. 

The elephant in the room is that, despite finally getting a run of games, Snyman made zero impact at the business end of Munster's season.

Just one page back you'll find one of our (ahem…) fine moderators call this an "Appalling signing".

Well, if he performs to the same level, either in quantity or quality, as he did for Munster last season, it certainly won't be a good signing.