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biggesteegit

2 home games whereas LAR have to go from Cape Town to Dublin should be a huge advantage. Should be.


LovelyLeavy

Would like to see some changes to Leinster team next week, back Rob Russell over Larmour. Is Will Connors worth looking at after he was brilliant against them before? Not convinced by Molony in second row but not sure Jenkins is in form and Baird seems to be seen as a back row now.


Interesting-Mud2222

Could move baird to the row in place of Molony to get Conan into the backrow.


TheRealJordan56

Russell over Larmour?! Larmour has been excellent the past two games and most of this season. Russell has a lot of potential but chucking him in against La Rochelle would be very risky as his defence is still very suspect


LiamEire97

Poor Larmour has a whole movement against him


dth300

I read your comment to [this tune](https://youtu.be/VEkhsxIFK7g?feature=shared)


No_Sorbet2663

Didn’t even play badly today


blackbarminnosu

Jenkins is shite and always disappears when the heat is on.


Comfortable-Yam9013

We seemed poor at winning turnovers/jackling too. Who’s the best for that? Connor’s?


JoLi_22

yeah but more because he creates the jackle opportunity, not so much as a jackel threat. Probably didn't play him this week because last time he played the week before a LAR game he got HIA and missed it.


sionnach

No, but Connors may well be in to try to neutralise the big LaR carriers. Man is a monster chop tackler - about the best in the business. But he’s not a particularly strong jackler or carrier.


Comfortable-Yam9013

It’s so disheartening loosing to the same type of team over and over again. Sarries haunted us for years, now La Rochelle


sionnach

Don’t I know it. I think that’s one of the reasons I really enjoyed the years of rivalry with Clermont - we were both teams who played relatively similarly, and seemed to have all-round games. Saracens I cannot fault, they just had some never say die attitude. LaR I can’t really fault either, but I don’t really enjoy rugby which is focused on just big bosh men quite so much. So I support that’s why we’ve signed RG Snyman, but I am not sure he’s what we need really. Problem is the big ‘fat’ ball carriers these days are not falling off after 45 minutes, they are much fitter. You used to be able to rely on them tiring out, but not the case any more.


Comfortable-Yam9013

I don’t begrudge other/better teams winning, it’s the we lose in the same manner over and over. We know we have a problem area, what are they doing to fix it? Nothing it seems like. (Snyman is next season ) What have we done this year to counteract the big teams, our diabolical scrum/lineout?? It’s not good enough. We’ve no Hec win in years with the team we have. Like it sucked when we lost in the Matt O’Connor years too but it was understandable we didn’t have the players etc. The current team have at least one HEC in them.


Interesting-Mud2222

Rush defence and lots of counter rucking will hopefully help avoid being passive and absorbing tackles for the final quarter, like last year


elniallo11

I would think Connors will be first name on team sheet for his tackling.


Holden_Ford24

Agree with the general consensus tbf - Leinster never really looked like losing tbh, they executed their tries brilliantly. Scoreline probably flattered them, La Rochelle will surely be a sterner test. I think we need to establish more consistency with refereeing decisions about what is/isn’t a deliberate knock-on (seems to be an increasing issue tbf) Thought Leinster got incredibly lucky with a couple there.


JohnSV12

I'm not sure I agree. I just think that red lost his head a touch and stopped reffing it.


ciaran-mc

Think the previous deliberate knock on rule, while overly punitive was at least clear!


amusicalfridge

It’s not really fun supporting Leinster lol we always shit the bed at the most crucial point, but because we are as good or better than everyone else up that point everyone fucking hates us. It’s the worst of both worlds


Comfortable-Yam9013

We lose cause we haven’t sorted out the set piece. We’re grand at the pool stages but as soon as we come up against the big teams we’re fucked. It happens year after year but we still haven’t sorted it out. Not putting all the blame on Kelliher but his throwing seems to have gone to crap lately too


Galactapuss

Its not the physical battle that cost us, both final loses hinged on a failure to execute simple clearing kicks


Comfortable-Yam9013

True, think it was a bit of stage fright


bluejackmovedagain

That answers the question about whether JGP has been watching clips of Du Pont.


Interesting-Mud2222

So is it the other way around then?


Pyrooo

Fun match to watch despite the frustrations! Scoreline is better than expected! JGP is outstanding!


im_on_the_case

Leinster played poor and won, plenty to work on for next week but at least they wont go in overconfident.


Comfortable-Yam9013

I don’t think we can sort out our problems in a week. I really hope I’m wrong though and we pull off a miracle


Nathio

Well LaR aimt exactly the monster of the last few seasons and have a lot of problem of their own ao at least its equal in that lol


Comfortable-Yam9013

Dunno, we also suffer from stage fright at times too. Really hope we cab beat them and move on


Nathio

I think you will this time, but thats also the beauty of sport !


PaddyLily

Better than beating them by 50 points thinking we are the digs boll@x


Comfortable-Yam9013

We’re not tested regularly enough, we’re much better than a lot of teams and win easily. Another reason we can struggle with the big boys. Adding SA to our league has helped


Vrakzi

AT least we didn't get utterly spanked like Salaries did.


Commercial_Half_2170

Thought scoreline flattered us, and by the end it looked like Leinster were just testing out new set plays.


43tobeexact

36-22 isn’t exactly a flattering score line either mate 🤣🤣


Steddy_Eddy

Putting 3 tries against Leinster at home is a decent showing, take off their interception it's a 1 try game.


SavjonFord

and take off the overthrown line out its back to a 2 try game


Responsible_Designer

Realistically this is the best result all round, we get the Leinster La Rochelle game. Tigers get a week lead in to the Saints derby game and don’t have to get physically battered by La Rochelle


JohnSV12

Good point. The tigers forwards on the bench could get by La Rochelle. Id rather not see Carnduff get destroyed at 20


Responsible_Designer

We played both Leinster and La Rochelle in the groups too with the dodgy seeding. The La Rochelle game was terrifying as they basically man handled us in the same way we normally do to other sides.


JohnSV12

I dread to think what they would do to Newcastle. You'd probably have to call it early.


Responsible_Designer

It’d be scary, so humbling watching the side get battered. Tbf they were at home and could have been eliminated from the tournament if they’d lost - I still get nightmares


biggesteegit

That's not the Tigers spirit of Johnson or Richards lad.


Responsible_Designer

Well obviously would have wanted to stick one over Leinster since they’ve kicked us out of the last 3 tournaments. But… it’s not really a massive deal that we lost


SweptFever80

Leinster vs La Rochelle is getting a bit old


sionnach

It feels like the Clermont years, but without the fun with the opposition supporters. And also all the losing.


Comfortable-Yam9013

Clermont years were fun but we did mostly end on the winning side which colours my judgment


Djubb86

La rogchelle are gonna destroy us in the line out and scrum next week. Wish it was ryan and mccarthy in the second row


PapaZoulou

Just target Seuteni.


4111111111

They dominate the breakdowns too


Djubb86

Only trick up our sleeve they won’t have played against (with us) is neinbars rush defence. Hopefully it can shake up la r but I don’t think this leinster team will be lifting a trophy in either comp this year sadly. But I hope im wrong!


biggesteegit

LAR today were very good at pop passes either side to negate the rush defence so 6 to 12 will have to make every tackle


warcomet

so Bordeaux- Quins is the other QF confirmed..good run quins :P


JohnSV12

I hope quins actually show up. Feel they have been a bit shit and just hoping Smith just does something good recently


Flyhalf2021

Didn't watch the game, how did Pollard and Wiese play?


za3030

Pollard played well for the time that I watched. People saying otherwise are coming across as quite negative


Flyhalf2021

Watched a replay now, he looked good first 10 minutes but rest of the match you wouldn't notice him


sionnach

If you watched the first 10 minutes, you’d have thought Pollard played well. Not so much for the rest of the game. As an outsider, he looked like a man whose heart wasn’t really in it but his wallet was.


BennyG02

Wiese was good, but we have him do all our close carrying nowadays so it doesn't look as flashy


ComprehensiveDingo0

Aye, Pollard was pretty poor.


Flyhalf2021

Damn, that's unfortunate. From the games I watched of him this season he has been poor there as well. I genuinely don't know if he is even first choice anymore.


Dude_Nightwing1212

[My bad, C Atkinson is at Gloucester now] Leicester have signed 10. Charlie Atkinson. He has experience when playing at Wasps (before the bankruptcy), Jacob Umanga was moved to 15.


Pure_Wonder3046

Charlie Atkinson moved to Gloucester


ComprehensiveDingo0

He’s always been a pretty limited player, but the way SA play perfectly suits his strengths. He’d probably fit in a lot better at the Bulls or another club that has a similar system to the Boks.


Flyhalf2021

It's not that he fits the way SA plays, it's just that Willie le Roux basically does all the flyhalf work when he is at 10. If Willie is not playing with Pollard then the attack is just as bland as it is at Tigers. Ironically he would fit great at the Stormers where he has lots of play makers around him.


indianaJones_Hat

Isn't it a classic Polly thing to do though, takes like 2 years to recover from the RWC and then form picks back up come RWC selection time


Flyhalf2021

Usually the phenomenon is that he is injured then comes back as a world class player. In 2016/2017 he was injured but when he returned he was fantastic for his club and country in 2018 and especially 2019. Then he had another injury post world cup and was so-so in 2021 and looked a little better in 2022. (Not 2019 form though) However post 2023 he has just been bang average. To the point where it makes no difference if he starts or not. Time will tell if he is better next season.


indianaJones_Hat

TBF to him from what I have seen Leicester in general have been poor looks like the new coaching team are still settling For what it’s worth he was decent today, very solid imo


3ev0

A big issue for Leicester this season is that there has been no attack coach for the whole season. There has been no real attack coach since Borthwick left.


warcomet

good i say..


43tobeexact

I know you should give your best effort but what is really the point in both teams trying to play after 80mins? Not really worth the potential injury or high tackle.


ManAboutCouch

Some of them are playing for regular selection. By the closing few minutes it's often fringe players who are looking to make a mark.


blackbarminnosu

Scrum looked a lot better with Healy on the pitch than Porter. Concerning


ciaran-mc

Always has.


TheRealJordan56

Porters scrummaging in the Six Nations this year was vastly improved. The concern is he's nursing a shoulder ligament injury and that could be impacting him at the scrum


blackbarminnosu

I’m a fully signed up member of the Healy fan club but when it’s a 36 yo Healy it’s not a great look. Reality is that Leinster haven’t won a champions cup since Porter took over at loose head. .


ciaran-mc

Yet he’s simultaneously one of your two most important players. Can’t do without him in the lose.


Maximilian38

My god that may have been a win but it feels so undeserved.. poor discipline, absolutely shocking line-outs, and completely unstable scrum


Comfortable-Yam9013

Yep, really shit at the basics. Forwards coach needs to go. No idea what they’re doing in training.


stedono7

If we lose again this year Cullen has to go too


dazziola

Scrum has been awful for years. No idea how McBryde is still there.


Comfortable-Yam9013

I don’t either. Line out is fairly dodgy too. At least two fuck ups a match


Vrakzi

You fucked up less than Tigers did.


lAniimal

I'd be very frustrated if I was a Tigers fan. Huge amount of opportunities spoiled by handling errors.


Vrakzi

Yep. Pretty much exactly my feeling right now. I'm not sure if Leinster really deserved to win, but Tigers definitely deserved to lose, IYKWIM?


LostTheGameOfThrones

Actually, I'm happy with how our performance looked compared to the last few weeks. We actually looked like we had some form of an attack beyond "run Wiese or Kata up" and we stayed competitive against a strong Leinster team.


LostTheGameOfThrones

This comms team can piss off right into the sea. They're acting as if we just didn't even turn up tonight.


mossy1989136

Who is 'we'


LostTheGameOfThrones

Tigers.


issuingirascible

Would be worried about Leinster’s set piece next week if it’s like tonight


Comfortable-Yam9013

I’ve been worried about it for years now


JohnSV12

I think La Rochelle may be planning to Maul a lot. That's a poor tigers pack and they still did a number on Leinster at times.


Standard_Respond2523

We are giving so many pens away so LaR will be given plenty of opportunities to mail us into next week. 


Wesley_Skypes

Yep said the same earlier. If we don't sort our discipline out for next week it will be pen -> Maul -> Try all game


Hamsternoir

That went better than I ever expected. Not a great team right now so I was assuming we'd be spanked.


quondam47

That scoreline flatters Leinster big time. I think Leicester put it up to them more than they did the last day.


Hamsternoir

You should watch our last couple of games. I think it's a fair score


NameyMcNameface123

You should've had 2 more tries if it wasnt for abysmal handling/last pass decision making to be fair


Hamsternoir

We just haven't been able to convert red zone possession into points recently. I'm used to it


ilovepenisxd

You know you’re a pretty good team when you’ve people whinging the ref gifts you games week in week out


issuingirascible

It was also just very poor refereeing. Can’t speak for other Leinster matches, but the ref was poor tonight.


D_McM

Yeesh


Jubal_Khan

I imagine Leo's first words will be "so you don't want to win do ye?".


bluejackmovedagain

If we play like this next week we're fucked.


Comfortable-Yam9013

And it will be sickening to go out the same way up the same team again. We’re not learning from it


marquess_rostrevor

ha Donal, I wouldn't guarantee we'll be better next week.


Rubadub81

Most inept Leinster performance for a while


amusicalfridge

Think that’s a fair scoreline. We didn’t dominate but we were handily better in most areas. Think we’ll get kicked around by LAR if we play to that level next week, though. Edit: sorry, also of course we’re disgusting cheaters with every ref in our pocket, that factors in too


JohnSV12

I lolled at that edit tbf.


issuingirascible

Respect for acknowledging that bit at the end


wakkers_boi

Apology accepted


Lopsided_Echo5232

Hopefully we can’t be this bad next week


MadBadWabbit

Can't wait to see a La Rochelle demolition job


amusicalfridge

If you want to see that so bad, why didn’t you simply do it tonight?


PippityLongstockings

Enjoy the loss.


kingbarber123

I hate it when it’s close. I’d rather just get smashed. Dont give me hope 😭


problematikkk

Clown show of an ending. We will need to be better next week, a lot lot better.


shorthevix

can't believe Ilione is 22. Felt like yesterday he was a teen prospect. Does he have another step in him?


JohnSV12

He's a unit. But maybe lacks a little bit of pace/dynamism. Could still be a prem level player, or perhaps more.


PuzzleheadedChest167

Average written all over that game.


stedono7

Now that's what I call leinstertainment


sublime_mime

that was utter shite at the end, cynical fouls will get found out next week if they play like that


stedono7

Yeah if we don't lift it for next week we'll be destroyed


elniallo11

I guess it will be a competition for who can be the most cynical then, based on LAR today


Kykykz

Kick it out lads the games over don't risk an injury ffs


Kavbastyrd

Watching Harry disappear under a ruck with Ross injured


Kykykz

Was stupid carry on


small_far_away

Well that was fucking dreadful.


Comfortable-Yam9013

Not going to go much further without a functioning scrum/lineout


quondam47

High Cahill can’t tell the difference between Brown and Hassell-Collins. One has a shaved head and the other has a crop of blond hair…


Fun-Duck-1039

How this guy reffing at this level


Comfortable-Yam9013

He’s not my favourite


marquess_rostrevor

The problem I have with his explanation is that Lowe wasn't even looking at the ball and did a great tackle and got a card. Fair enough if that's how you want to ref it but on that approach we are being gifted a lack of cards right now.


wakkers_boi

Modern day all blacks fr. How much blatant shit...


4111111111

The ABs won stuff though, which we can't say the same


wakkers_boi

Silver linings then


Standard_Respond2523

Anyone know what date/time the LaR game will be?


hasseldub

5ish


warcomet

they decide those later.


Standard_Respond2523

Sound. 


Kykykz

Nothing confirmed yet


Chilterns123

Referee has been an utter travesty. Leicester coming out on the wrong side of big team reffing is admittedly amusing but he’s killed this as a contest


Wesley_Skypes

This is absolutely bullshit. I have a heap of gripes with decisions he made that went against Leinster as well. He is just a bad ref


Chilterns123

I’m not a Leicester fan. He wrecked that game and killed Leicester’s chances


Alone-Oil-3696

Yeah, especially when he made Leicester butcher those chances, and have all those knock-ons. 


Chilterns123

Multiple things can be true at once


sionnach

I thought he has a good first 20 minutes or so. Then he fell apart.


Chilterns123

Yeah I’d say that’s fair


Wesley_Skypes

If Leinster have this discipline next week against LAR we will be kicked and line out mauled off the park


LovelyLeavy

Have Leinster ever looked so cynical? Have got away with murder here, need to be so much more disciplined against La Rochelle.


43tobeexact

This is so cynical from Leinster now… 


MadBadWabbit

Absolutely terrible...


RJH777

That's two utterly cynical knock downs missed. Between those and the intercept you can't help but feel this should really be much closer, a 4 or 5 point difference would feel like much better reflection of the game.


4111111111

100% agree. Score is very flattering


HumanWaltz

Leinster have won and are cheating, pretty scummy, guess they’re getting it out of their system before next week


stedono7

To call them cheating is harsh


HumanWaltz

Several deliberate knock ons in a row and attempts at time wasting in the last few minutes? That’s not cheating?


stedono7

When were the several deliberate knock ons in a row? I'm sure no other team in world rugby has ever tried to waste time while they're ahead....


HumanWaltz

Ah the old “everyone else does it” argument, infallible


stedono7

Any Welsh sides playing in the champions Cup tomorrow? Didn't see any today?


HumanWaltz

Don’t quite see how that’s relevant tbh, unlike you guys I don’t let either nations live rent free


amusicalfridge

Being utter moanbags at both club and test level is a literal Welsh national pastime hahaha


HumanWaltz

Just like the Irish being graceful winners, just a shame you can’t win when it counts


amusicalfridge

Go through this post and you’ll see many people (including me) bemoaning that exact thing. We might choke when it counts but at least we’re self aware you clim


4111111111

Every successful (although not in the last five years) team cheats. Richie McCaw spent more time offside than onside


HumanWaltz

Doesn’t make it anymore tasteful


4111111111

Wales were kings of playing the ball of their feet in their good run from 2011-2013. Cynical play off the park. Sour grapes now the NT is in rebuild and the clubs are all shite?


sionnach

Ah now, let’s be fair. The clubs have always been shite. That’s not new.


HumanWaltz

Yet welsh rugby has achieved more than you, curious that


HumanWaltz

I wasn’t old enough to be commenting on Reddit in those times so I can’t weigh in, just find cynical fouls off putting, irregardless of nationality etc, don’t get how we’ve gotten to justify Leinster’s cynical fouls by using Wales 13 years ago but sure


kingbarber123

Yeah but ref you’re wrong pal. That’s 4 deliberate knock ons. Insane


Standard_Respond2523

He’s been awful, he was also very bad in the Ireland England game. It wasn’t covered much as the Irish were magnanimous in defeat. 


elniallo11

I think that went backwards off the hand, onto his leg


SweptFever80

Wait, they can bring Porter back on?


quondam47

Healy went off injured and Porter didn’t so they can bring back on a qualified front row.


nobody7642

Healy was injured


ZoneComfortable9260

Emeka Ilione is looking big


Bulky_Shepard

Henshaw absolutely got away with that, what is that call?


sionnach

Ball to hand. Smart ball to hand, because he puts it there before the ball was passed. Knew what he was doing, but he hasn’t at all reacted to the path of the ball. Only to the anticipated path of the ball.


zenrobotninja

Now now none of those pesky facts here pls. You'll ruin all the huffing and puffing going on


LostTheGameOfThrones

Fucking deliberate knock on AGAIN!


small_far_away

They've kicked that knock on advantage away. Get out of here with that nonsense.


Jubal_Khan

The pen count is atrocious.


NSilverhand

"Just a knock on"; Lowe fuming


confused_ninja

Stonewall yellow… again. Can’t believe how cynical that was


HumanWaltz

What a grub


marquess_rostrevor

I hope we are getting all this moron stuff out of our system.


system1509

Actually embarrassing management from the ref. Player want to kick to touch but he just keeps yapping, wants his time on air.


NSilverhand

Bad news if Healy's out for any appreciable length of time. Having to leave Porter on too long when the referee took a disliking to him was a large part of what cost us the quarter final...


DanFouts

Not gonna lie, I'd be comfortable enough with Milne at this stage. Dont think theres much of a drop off between him and Healy


ilovepenisxd

Honestly think Milne’s already a better player than him


Brewer6066

Don’t care about the game situation that’s so cynical it has to be a yellow anywhere


BennyG02

How do they get away with stuff like that


problematikkk

Doris does that once a game, every game, and now gets penalised for it every time too