Leinster Team Talk Thread (Love you Furlong time)

Didn’t see any post match, what were his comments if you don’t mind?

Delighted for Lowe to break the record. Well deserved. What a player.

He was asked about about having options at half-back without necessarily having a clear pairing (like a Lucu and Jallibert partnership).

He mentioned about things not being the same for French clubs who are privately owned. I guess it's about not being able to play the same players week-in week-out because there's a different system in Ireland.

I’m sure we’re supposed to say things like “we want to test ourselves against the best” but we’ll take any luck that is going.
SFM injury is reported as “pretty serious” so doesn’t sound like he’ll be travelling

Very happy with last night. Lots of good performances. Everything runs more smoothly when the forwards get on top.

I was struck by a few examples of home advantage. The Clarkson pile driver, Sheehan's jump and Porter's high tackle are the kind of things that can go against you away from home. If Leinster were away from home, we could easily be discussing the Clarkson red card and penalties or yellows for Porter and Sheehan. Worth counting your blessings when the ref goes your way.

Yeah it was bizarre, no force in it, but kind of has to be a yellow because the player lands on his head. The red card take to me would be very harsh.

Hes a winger about to turn 34, who played 7 games for Leinster this season.

Unless hes willing to play for very little money hes just not a good use of limited funds. Mid 30s wingers who rarely play are not a good investment.

Very fair comment.

John Barclay (I think) made the point last night on PS that James Lowe has played 100 times for Leinster in 9 seasons. That's averaging 11 games a season.

He has 45 caps for Ireland across 6 seasons which is 7.5 games.

The IRFU are main stakeholder here, moreso than Leinster.

There seem to be a few murmerings that Leinster are looking to get Kok in. He'd be a replacement for Lowe in terms of bringing the infectious enthusiasm and commitment.

Yes given his age and injury profiles, and it being a world cup year, I'd say his Leinster minutes will be fairly limited this year. Plus the summer and autumn internationals are part of the Nations Championship this year which means there won't be much scope to rest players in the summer or Autumn.

I'm surprised there hasn't been more chat about the Nations Championship.

Apropos of nothing, Toulon are currently 24-22 up against UBB with 1 min left. Ref is penalising UBB at the breakdown.

FT 27-22.

UBB in 6th and could be overtaken by Clermont/R92 who play tonight.

UBB vs Clermont next week in what could be a winner takes all to make les barrages.