Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

It refers to the first post I responded to. It said Leinster will miss him, and I said Connacht will appreciate him more than leinster will miss him.

It's not that controversial.

Sometimes I think if you had a referendum on whether the sky is blue, it would be touch and go.

Interestingly it was Lancaster who really made the active shift of getting Frawley away from 10 and more into 12/15 role.

I don't think he ever rated him as a 10. There were multiple interviews with Stu where he made references to Leinsters 10 options and he never mentioned Frawley in that conversation.

He might well have changed his tune. Or perhaps he never saw Frawley primarily as a 10 because there were better options than him but he still wanted to use him.

I think Frawley is a better 10 than Ioane and Carty in any case.

Excellent 10s are not easy to come by. Especially if you're never going to be in a realistic position to sign a super star.

So Frawley is likely Connachts best option.

It's been really encouraging to see a number of Leinster players perform better as the Six Nations progressed. Last year we saw players peak early and decline as the tournament progressed.

I was very encouraged by the performance of McCarthy and Doris especially. If Leinster are to win anything this season, we'll need our two world class forwards to be at the best. The former was fairly poor against France, was benched, but then quickly re-established himself as a starter with some very physical performances.

Doris has been brilliant since Round 2. I'm very glad to see how well he's carrying again. Over the last few seasons I've felt that he was morphing his game to be reminiscent of Heaslip. An 8 who sacrificed his hard carrying game in order to be more of an all rounder, hitting rucks, slowing the ball down and tackling everything. Over the last few games we've seen Doris do all that, but also make some huge carries, breaking the line and also making lots of metres post being tackled. His performance against Scotland yesterday was one of his best ever.

It's been a great tournament for Osborne and TOB also. I know most of us think the formers best position is at centre. But it was so important that, in the absence of Keenan, we developed someone who could potentially play fullback at test level. Osborne has shown that he can. He's the full package, I think. Solid distributor, great kicker, line runner and is a powerful carrier.

TOB struggled against France, but when he got his chance against England from the bench he excelled and got better as the tournament progressed. Speed kills at test level and he has that in buckets. We've now found two test level options for the back three. Both scored four tries a piece. Great return.

Up to now when they've both started it's been TOB on the right wing and Kenny switching to the left wing, but now that Kenny's more established and TOB has looked good playing 11 for Ireland I wonder if the other way round would be better. They've both looked good in both positions, but which way round is optimal?

Sounds like Keenan and Porter could be available for selection this weekend.

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