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Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,865 ✭✭✭✭Clegg


    There are absolutely things Prendergast has to get better at. He needs to be a more consistent threat at the gain line for instance. But the narrative has become that he never brings the ball up to the line. He does it plenty, but can still do it more.

    The other is that the attack becomes a bit of a mess past three or four phases. That's true as well, but that's also the case when Crowley starts at 10 for Ireland. Or when Frawley is at 10 for Leinster. At Prendergast's age, Sexton wasn't the playmaker and backline organiser he became in his late 20's and 30's. That comes with experience.

    We have a gem on our hands, but people have become so blinded with envy/anger whatever that it'll never be good enough.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,559 ✭✭✭✭Exclamation Marc


    Agreed. I think the most irritating thing (for me) to read is the soccer mentality of "he's had a bad game, he needs to be dropped indefinitely". There's barely a world class player who hasn't made it to where they made it to without playing through adversity. If we dropped everyone who had a bad day today or any day, we wouldn't have a team. Not only that, rugby is such a team sport that ultimately an individuals performance can be entirely influenced by those around them.

    I hope Sam gets plenty of time at 10 and I hope Crowley does as well. Alternating between them could be great but dropping either on the basis of a bad day at the races won't help them.

    I'd be embarrassed to call myself an Irish rugby fan if I couldn't get behind players just because they don't wear my provincial colours. You can tell there's so many posters around these days who salivate every time Sam makes a mistake and it's just sad.

    Anyways, onwards and upwards for him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 843 ✭✭✭For Petes Sake


    You can guarantee the same lot wouldn't even acknowledge a good performance either.

    Perennial losers, I call them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,865 ✭✭✭✭Clegg


    Fintan Gunne broke his wrist during the Ireland A game last weekend according to Murray Kinsella. That's a season ender you'd imagine.

    Also leaves Leinster in bother wrt to the 9 jersey over the next few weeks. JGP won't travel to South Africa and Cormac Foley is still injured. We'll be down to our 5th choice scrum half. Whoever that actually is.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 636 ✭✭✭johnh6767


    I’m a Leinster supporter and a massive Sam fan, but I still 100% get why my friends from Munster are incensed why Crowley isn’t starting given he guided us to a grand slam last year . What am I missing? World Cup 27 perhaps?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,219 ✭✭✭✭AbusesToilets


    That's **** news, he was seeing some consistent game time finally



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 843 ✭✭✭For Petes Sake


    Is McGrath injured?

    5th choice would be Oliver Coffey.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,559 ✭✭✭✭Exclamation Marc


    If anyone is "incensed" by a coaching decision, maybe rugby isn't for them.

    Your question is more for the Ireland thread than here. The 6N campaigns this year and last year are not like-for-like, the individual games aren't even like-for-like so that argument of what went last year is irrelevant.

    In any event does anyone have the head for yet another Sam v Crowley discussion...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 843 ✭✭✭For Petes Sake


    Jack Crowley also didn't lead Ireland to a Grand Slam.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,559 ✭✭✭✭Exclamation Marc


    Damn. That's awful news. South Africa would have been a great opportunity for him to get game time. Thank god Luke is having a purple patch this year.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 636 ✭✭✭johnh6767


    Terrible news he was going great , that A game has done great damage to many



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,799 ✭✭✭RichieRich_89


    They'll probably just take two scrumhalves to SA then - McGrath and Coffey, which sounds a bit risky until you remember Ireland took just two 9s to the 2019 World Cup. It's also probably a good bit easier for a non-scrumhalf to fill in there now with the law tweaks protecting scrumhalves. I guess Jimmy O'Brien could step in if necessary - unless one of the other outside backs likely to travel has an underage career as a scrumhalf I'm unaware of. I'd imagine Liam Turner would also be used to passing from the base from playing 7s.

    It's bad luck for Gunne, but a real opportunity for Coffey, who looked reasonably promising off the bench against Cardiff.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,865 ✭✭✭✭Clegg


    Midi Olympique is reporting that Slimani and Leinster have reached an agreement for him to stay another season.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,559 ✭✭✭✭Exclamation Marc


    Brilliant news if true. He's been a revelation and one of our best ever NIQs.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,219 ✭✭✭✭AbusesToilets


    That's fantastic, all the more so given Furlong's issues



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,559 ✭✭✭✭Exclamation Marc


    Leinster confirming that they'll be back in the RDS for the 26/27 season.

    Regarding loyalty back to the RDS, they noted:

    “Season Ticket Holders that were with us before the move to the Aviva Stadium will always be our priority and we’ve engaged a world-renowned consultancy to support us in that return to the RDS, and we will also look after those that have joined us this current season and into next year.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    another bloody full season of the aviva is a pain in the ass. I’ve skipped a few games this year and probably will again next year.
    I don’t hate the aviva like many do but for anything less than the biggest matches I find it flat and soulless.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,314 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    No half time minis for another year and a half so. Disappointing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    What’s the story there I think they did have it at one game. Manged 4 matches I think



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,559 ✭✭✭✭Exclamation Marc


    They have the brutal BOI sponsored kick-catch competition. Maybe its a sponsorship thing?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,314 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    They had it in Croke Park for the Munster game.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,116 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Last year's Leinster kit for sale on M&M Direct.

    £25 for the jersey. Nice jersey looking back

    https://www.mandmdirect.com/02/fts/?search=rugby+men



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,116 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    I wonder will Furlong go on the SA tour to get some minutes before the Harlequins game?

    He Needs the minutes but they've tended to keep the European Cup squad separate from the SA tour squad for the last couple of years.

    I also wonder if this prolonged absence will benefit him in the long term? With exception of a few games, he's been absent since last summer. Training away he's best but with fewer impacts.

    Plus Clarkson has gotten great gametime, but that's a separate point.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,865 ✭✭✭✭Clegg


    New contracts announced for John McKee and JOB.

    Hugh Cooney moves from an academy deal to his first senior contract.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,219 ✭✭✭✭AbusesToilets


    Would love to see Osborne and Cooney backed by Leinster this season. See at least one of them playing or benching in every game, as much as possible.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,865 ✭✭✭✭Clegg


    Harry Byrne's loan at Bristol has been extended until the end of the season. Seems to be going well for him over there.



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 29,891 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    Have to assume that increases the chances of him staying there long term. McGinty is no spring chicken.

    Would be problematic for leinster but if they're gonna force him back I dunno why they wouldn't do it a bit earlier.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,103 ✭✭✭ersatz


    HB has been delivering too. It's a good move for him, even for a couple of seasons.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,219 ✭✭✭✭AbusesToilets


    I hope that he stays, and smashes it. I think was treated poorly by Leo since last season.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,559 ✭✭✭✭Exclamation Marc


    With Ross gone be may come back as he'll get the game time to show what he can do. I'd rather they kept on with Tector at 12 as he's smashing it there.



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