Match Thread: Leinster v Northampton, 03/05/25

Don't mind him, he has form. Totally not worth it.

That's just shocking

21.15 If the ball or ball-carrier touches a corner flag or corner flag post without otherwise being in touch or touch-in-goal, play continues unless the ball is grounded against the post.

Need to see it back but I don't think it was grounded against the post?

I know.

He's one of the coterie that does it regularly.

For me, any speculation that SP should even be in the lions squad (not to mind being starting 10) is 100% put to bed after today. That being said it was a very exciting match and I’m very disappointed for Leinster- I really didn’t see Northampton pulling out that performance

I hope that answers all the questions that Prendergast shouldn't be a no 10 for lions or Ireland going forward, he is overhyped and not fit for purpose.

I thought that last year. In football he would have been gone. Now it is inevitable that he does.

you can’t say arrogance isn’t a part of that loss, both on the field and off.

Fans were in the final already, the club was tweeting about the final as well.

Wouldn’t start Barrett.

Wouldn’t take the 3 and secure the draw, and made that same decision twice. Terrible call. Leinster would have romped home in ET

Wouldn’t take prendergast off until to late.

I don’t take any great satisfaction from Leinster losing, it’s not good for Irish rugby, but hopefully the positives from this is to realise prendergast is far from finished, Ringrose and henshaw are past their prime and won’t be good enough for the next RWC and the Irish mgt can start to see that.

Never mind taking the 3 points...NH down to 13 men, no 5 gone off and they decide to tap and go instead of taking a line out. Like talk about lack of leadership or any sort of cool head thinking. All they had to do was spread it out wide from a line out and they would have eventually outnumbered NH.

The person responsible for putting it together hasn’t. Nice chap. Out of his depth

You miss understand clegg. I'm not pinning the loss on one player. Plenty of Leinster players didn't turn up/werent allowed to dictate the game.

But when you have a 10 that can't perform unless they are behind a dominant pack you can't expect to win.

That's even ignoring him being a defensive liability.

There's one link on them all though
Cullen should be sacked tonight

What was most shocking was how out-coached Leinster looked - particularly with the defensive system which really exposes our back's lack of pace when it's breached. We know about their mental frailty in big games, Prendergast's weaknesses in defence / lack of speed, Henshaw - no speed etc. but the way Northampton cut the defence to ribbons was both impressive and deeply worrying. They've gone backwards under Nienabar.

Even the fairest minded supporter would have to think Cullen's position is becoming untenable. It's been years of consistent failure in all the big games and that bottle mentality is at risk of infesting the Irish team.

I couldn't really follow what the ref was saying due to his use of French, his heavily accented english and the bad sound quality

but

I thought he said that it went forward from VdF during the attempted rip on the ground? Hence no try?

Heroic from Northampton....a superb result for the competition and the neutral..…

The Leinster arrogance is as bad as the English of the 90s....

The OP said "we're going to batter them" in his opening post....

Didnt age well....