Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

Highly unlikely Bordeaux have not covered all potential Leinster options in their prep. Not a big deal, both sides will have done reams of analysis on each other looking for chinks in the armour. It is very hard to win 2 in a row, we might have an edge.

He meant he was out for the 6 nations.

The ST QF game was One of the best games I have ever seen, end to end stuff, the Leinster backs were incredible that day and Cameron Jowitt!!!!

I think its fairly accurate, Munster looking backwards to 20 years ago, always a habit of looking back - the ABs win for example. And here Leinster are looking forward and preparing for yet another Euro Final. Leinster have been incredibly consistent for the last 17 years now, year on year.

Munster really missed an opportunity to really kick on after 06/08. Put in proper foundations and build for the future. Instead we pissed it all away with inept corporate management, bad governance and a failure to invest properly in grassroots and foundations. While blaming all and everyone for our woes.

Anyway best of Luck to Leinster, ye have a great chance this weekend. I think Bordeaux are one of the weakest finalist ye have faced since 2012. I hope ye do it, from a Munster fan.

If TOB is fit and Rieko is selected on the other wing then i can see a bench with McGrath, Frawley and Lowe. Enough options covered there. JOB can justifiably feel hard done by if he misses out. Although someone said Lowe travelled seperately from the team to Bilboa

I kind of would too, in that's how I expect them to select it, but I'd personally go for Lowe over Osborne. I think he's just a better rugby player, with more scope to change and influence the game.

Best of Luck to Leinster tomorrow, I really hope that this is the year, provincial rivalry goes out the window for me when it comes to an Irish team in a final.I think being in the shake up year after year is the real success and exactly what all the rest of us aspire to for our provinces. Fingers crossed for you all.

Team is out and is as rumoured. TO'B is fit and starts on the wing with Ioane on the opposite side. Henshaw starts at 12 with Osborne at 23. Paddy McCarthy has made it back and benches.

15. Hugo Keenan (82)

14. Tommy O’Brien (60)

13. Garry Ringrose (148)

12. Robbie Henshaw (120)

11. Rieko Ioane (14)

10. Harry Byrne (90)

9. Jamison Gibson-Park (170)

1. Andrew Porter (147)

2. Dan Sheehan (86)

3. Thomas Clarkson (76)

4. Joe McCarthy (62)

5. James Ryan (108)

6. Jack Conan (177)

7. Josh van der Flier (172)

8. Caelan Doris (105) CAPTAIN

Replacements:

16. Rónan Kelleher (92)

17. Paddy McCarthy (15)

18. Tadhg Furlong (165)

19. Diarmuid Mangan (27)

20. Max Deegan (157)

21. Luke McGrath (253)

22. Ciarán Frawley (122)

23. Jamie Osborne (73)

Can’t really have any complaints with that team.

No Perchaud, Cazeaux

I don't like having Osborne in the 23 shirt, especially in the context of having had concerns about one of our wingers in the lead up to the game. Would have preferred to see JOB or Lowe there, but apart from that it's a really strong selection.

Feel a bit sorry for Jerry Cahir, after his incredible season for us, but hopefully a winner's medal will be his consolation.

Of all the names on the Bordeaux squad, illogically the name that struck the most fear in me was that goddamned Arthur Retiere.

I feel very sorry for Lowe, especially if this is the year we get over the hump and he's not there, but Ioane is definitely the right call.

Think Clarkson is the right call too.

I presume Deeney is injured, would expect Ryan and McCarthy to go the full 80 if they can.

Forecast is 27 degrees in Bilbao tomorrow so going to be a lot of tired bodies and gaps opening up as the game wears on, and that will favour them more than us.

Great team, they will give everything they have and more. C'mon Leinster