Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

I'm quietly confident in Leinster today.

I'm probably in the minority and I hope my confidence isn't misplaced!

It's natural to be nervous about this fixture as we so badly underperformed last season and have failed to perform consistently in this one. But there have been some encouraging signs over the last few knockout games that things are coming together, even if we weren't accurate with everything attempted.

I'm also leaning heavily on what Dan Sheehan has said recently in the media about the squad acknowledging their struggles to gel and taking more ownership over performances. I'm hopeful we'll see Leinster peak over the next month or so.

I'd probably sum it is as: they're a great team but aren't playing great.

They're the bulk of the Loins and have history as a brilliant team, but recent form this season and recent years in champions cup knock outs haven't lived up to the potential.

All in all, there's contradictory evidence so it's very difficult to predict what will happen. I love when sport is like that. It's exciting.

Harry has the yips

How TF is that a knock on?

His right hand fingers never lost contact.

Commentator: Doesnt matter if its an inch or a foot.

OK, but it wasn't even a milimetre. Ridiculous.

That lineout looked a bit dodgy too.

WTActual??

What was the second yellow for?

At times like this a decent commentator might explain to the viewer what just happened.

Scoreboard didn't reflect how much better Leinster were than Toulon.

The Nienaber rush defence came out on tops today and I think a few on here need to reflect on that.

But in reality it shut down so many Toulon attacks well before the gain line and frequently put them on the back foot.

What brought the opposition back into the back was their stronger bench. Which is a far bigger concern for Leinster. We need players back soon.