Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

There is rumours of Ross going to France and Munster apparently see Harry as an option to replace Burns. Guess a lot depends on the Byrne brothers

There is a lot of players after that 12 jersey too. Henshaw, Osborne, Tector along with Barrett have have really strong performances in the 12 shirt. I think he remains with Leinster as a 10. I think Ross ends up leaving and Sam, Harry and Frawley are the 3 fly halves next season.

Harry seems to be going well at Bristol. If Ross leaves he'd get a lot more game time next season.

Surely the onus is on the other provinces to sell themselves to the Byrnes (R or H) as to the benefits of joining them and be able to put a competitive package together. All 3 provinces are reasonably competitive in URC and Ccup and for Harry, he’s still in the system if he starts tearing up trees.

Frawley might not be first choice OH any time soon but he won’t be leaving, especially if Ross Byrne leaves.

Frawley only signed a new contract last season so he isn’t even available

If rumours are to be believed, Connacht put an opportunity in front of him last summer but he had no interest in going there.

To be honest I would probably go abroad in the same position as both Byrne brothers. Ross won't feature for Ireland again and is unlikely to win anything at any other province. Why not go abroad and give another league a go.

Harry is slightly different where a good half a season could see him back in the Irish squad, but Crowley would be ahead of him at Munster while he would be behind beaten packs half the time at Connacht and Ulster. Either stick around Leinster and realistically fight for the bench spot or go abroad and give French/England a crack.

just turned 27 weeks ago. Don’t agree at all. Time will tell.

Yeah great news for the lad at this point, I think its an ideal move away from the Top Trumps carry on that happens in the bubble of the Irish system. Gloucester is a top Club and better run than many in the Prem.

I know Ross a bit through business connections, and I was talking to him at a sponsor commitment event, about 10 days after the Champions Cup Final last year. I was saying I had been in White Hart Lane and he was apologising to me for the disappointing outcome.

I remember saying to him, listen lad, you fellas work hard in a hugely competitive system and give great enjoyment to tens of thousands of us, week in week out. You should never feel the need to excuse yourself for coming up short against an exceptional team, to a beer drinking old fatty like me whose greatest athletic achievement is jumping to conclusions. So we had a laugh and I hope he felt a bit better than his day had started.

He's a sound man and a great servant, I wish him good fortune across the pond, hopefully we may see him back to finish out his career yet.

I don't think anyone on here would be particularly critical of Ross. He's a great servant. Close on 200 games for Leinster. He might have lacked something athletically to compete with the very very best but don't think anyone felt that was some sort of culpable failing.

On a personal level, Harry Byrne would be pretty foolish to stay in Leinster (assuming his contract is up this year). The coaches have made it pretty clear where he stands.

Was his contract length announced? Various rumours at the time it was only 1 year.

I don't know, hence my qualifier.