Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

I thought Lowe had a very good game. Cracking banana kick at one point and largely kicked well.

Biggest disappointments for me were Snyman (anonymous), Deegan (also anonymous), Sam (shocker) and Hugo (one of his worst games in blue).

Freeman took his tries well, has good pace to him. Don't think he was markedly better than TOB from first viewing, just for getting to be the one to score from a sequence of passes

Entirely disagree

The way Freeman absolutely glided past Lowe was a fairly black mark. Happy to be talked around but there's zero reason to say he was "very good'.

Hindsight is 20/20 always easy to make decisions based on fact . Can’t blame the coaches on players performance

10 - 20 years ago a home semi would be big news nation wide. But now Leinster are the only competive Irish province. It's a bit like the leinster football championship, no one cares anymore. My point is leinster is so far ahead it's killing interest in rugby for the casual fans. NOT leinster'd fault but IRFU needs to address and propose solutions. I see at under age in counties 120 players at under 14's desperate to make the cut for development GAA county teams while local rugby clubs struggling to field 15 players at the same age, rugby not on the radar for these lads and these are athlete player within each county that all sports want to attract. Rugby and the IRFU needs to figure out how to make rugby more attractive to the young players. Apologies for the rant but I am sick of people giving out aboutLeinster and not realising the rest of the country is falling behind due to not making rugby attractive alternative and just focusing on the existing clubs and schools. Connacht fan

forget isolated incidents , big picture Northampton scored 5 tries away against an odds on favourite for the title, fair play and good luck to them , they played great and we were below par, thats sport, on another day we hammer them, anyone wanna buy 2 tickets for final.

I’m sorry but to leave Jordie Barrett on the bench for the Champions Cup semi-final, the exact reason you signed him to win, will go down as one of the most nonsensical team selections I’ve ever witnessed as a Leinster fan.

What was the point in having him if you’re not going to play him in these games? Complete rubbish to suggest the team that started was the right now. Not one player in their respective position in the outside backs is a better player than him.

It was a foolish call. Complete waste.

Arrogance summed up the day. Supporters arrogant. Leo's team selection no Jordie Barrett. But to top it off the Arrogance at the end to go for a tap penalty having already turned down a kickable penalty. Arrogance gets you nowhere.

At this stage, it's best team available every week. No reason to put out such a weak team last week.

Irfu strategy is fucked. 3 provinces utterly disenfranchised. Leinster the golden goose constantly failing on the big stage. Rugby is in a bad place in this country.

Not sure how you could have watched Ross at any point this season and see him as a better choice to start today.

Ross didnt even play well last weekend.

Starting Ross over Prendergast would have made zero difference to the result of the match. He didn't have a great game but neither did the vast majority of the team - something that Ross has shown over and over again that he doesn't have the ability to overcome.

3 provinces are utterly disenfranchised due mostly to their own utter incompetence.

People talk all the time about Leinster funding but the other provinces are far better funding than sides they have been losing to all season.

Lads as poor as he was, Jordie Barrett not starting is a bigger joke than whether Sam should have or not.

All this talk of Ross or Frawley starting or whatever impact they would when we chose to start one of the best players in the world on the bench, when he was brought in to play these very games. I’m not saying he should have played 10. He was our best player for 31 minutes today and it’s utter incompetence that he didn’t start.

I don’t think there is anyone other than the coaching ticket that could look at that and say it was the right call.

In 10 years time, when we have hopefully gotten over this hoodoo of bottling it and manage to win a couple of more Champions Cups, I’ll still be saying ‘they left Jordie f*cking Barrett on the bench’

"Leinster is so far ahead"

Are they though given what we've seen once again today?