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EPCR finals weekend match thread

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Dillonb3


    Game over



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭testtech05


    Leinster way off in a lot of areas so far but that try is a killer just popped to him out of nowhere



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,376 ✭✭✭✭Clegg


    Game over.

    Bordeaux taking advantage of every breaking ball yeah, but Leinster have looked poor with ball in hand and won so few collisions which I honestly wasn't expecting. These lads play so much better in green that I genuinely don't know what happens when they're back at the province.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,854 ✭✭✭theVersatile


    Ah Jesus, that's not even jammy that's a full on jar of preserve



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,089 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Clear two handed push in the back, but lets not even check it.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭testtech05




  • Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 45,407 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    And that's good night



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,549 ✭✭✭clsmooth


    They look like a load of Irish people in 30 degrees of heat.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,594 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Shambolic stuff.

    Was always going to be tough having to play Bordeaux in their own back yard but Leinster have not shown up in yet another final.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,699 ✭✭✭✭AbusesToilets


    We're losing every collision. This is some more of bullshit from the France game, bounces falling perfectly for Bordeaux. Henshaw not up to it at all today, lineout gone to ****, scrum on skates.

    Our worst final loss yet.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,908 ✭✭✭JanuarySnowstor


    How Cullen has survived this long is what amazes me!

    He's been there far too long, change well overdue



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,783 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    I was going to say that it was one of the jammiest tries I have ever seen, but I think you said it better.

    It's basically up to Bordeaux now to decide how much they want to win by



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,539 ✭✭✭visatorro


    Rabbit in headlights brain dead stuff from a leinster team that knew before it set foot on the pitch that they were beaten. So so poor



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 33,942 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    Yet Cullen and Nienaber are gonna come back next season and we will go through this same **** all over again.

    Hopefully Cullen has the good sense to shut up about the media being so unfair to him for a while.



  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭fitz


    If he was it was marginal. Not in the least comparable.

    Regardless, this is embarrassing. Defense is absolutely dreadful.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,699 ✭✭✭✭AbusesToilets


    it's pretty **** stupid to play a winter sport in heat like this.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,760 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    First match I watch. Seems to follow the same pattern each year. A not particularly interesting round robin stage with quite a few mismatchs then Leinster meets a French team in the final and the French team comes out on top. Still second half so we see if Leinster can do a Northampton final but not convinced. Forwards look tired and Harry Byrne is nowhere near sexton.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 114 ✭✭honestbroker


    More embarrassing than Ulster last night 🌙



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,213 ✭✭✭MFPM


    Game over...could be a hammering.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,339 ✭✭✭lawrencesummers


    Almost everytime Leinster carry into contact they are stopped dead or driven back

    Every time UBB carry into contact they make yards


    Leinster ruck sped way off what they want and need.

    That’s the difference between the teams, not lucky bounces or anything else. Leinster are getting beaten up in contact



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  • Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 45,407 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    What we've sacrificed for in attack has absolutely not been worth what we've gained in defense.

    Both leo and 9bar need to go.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭munsterlegend


    Leinster been a bit unlucky but lack of power and pace is the big difference.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,599 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    I agree with your point.

    At the same time, many people online seem to think some of the main journalists are too negative.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,699 ✭✭✭✭AbusesToilets


    Keenan having a rough game so far. Making uncharacteristic mistakes and letting Bordeaux find grass with their kicks far too often.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭almostover


    Remember the first 2 games of the six nations? This sort of performance isn't just confined to the blue jersey. Consistency of performance is an issue, the highs are high but the lows are very low.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 114 ✭✭honestbroker


    Need to take off Conan and Henshaw



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 978 ✭✭✭PmMeUrDogs


    Very disappointing so far. Yes, Dickson is missing a lot, but it's actually also one of the better games I've seen from him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,783 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    Jesus I actually want to them to kick it into touch so that it's halftime rather than risk a turnover try

    Edit: FFS!! 🤬



  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭fitz


    At the very least, play it in the evening, when the temperature drops a bit.



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  • Administrators Posts: 56,565 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Leinster are absolute idiots for not kicking that out.

    im sorry but youre getting absolutely annihilated and you think youre going to go the full length of the field before half time to score?



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