Babbling 'brook

We really need points from this pressure. Three big opportunities spurned.

On the positives, Ngatai looks really good, especially considering he’s coming off a long injury. Healy with the monster carry too, looking fresh.

Dexter wrote:Refs already made his mind up about the scrum too.

Yeah, thought that was a clear penalty against Lions.

We’d be doing well to get a losing bonus point at this point. We’ll lose this one big unfortunately.

Points off every possession so far for the Lions. We knew they were dangerous but defence has been non existent so far.

I miss the rainy nights in Donnybrook. Much more intimate with the crowd and players. Bod and D'Arce, Denis, the Swirve to name a few backs. Reggie, Mal, Miller, even Cozzer to name a few forwards. Brent Pope, your man Stephen Jones to name a few media types. Visitors like Martin Johnson with a fac...

They mean the Bulls

I missed the boat on the Croke Park tickets. If anyone has 2 or more tickets available for any of the seated areas, drop me a message.

Thank you!

Keith wrote:Toulouse Harlequins sold out in 20 minutes. There's still life in European club rugby yet.

What stadium are they playing that game in?

Well I got caught out looking for better tickets [emoji28] Will be on the hunt for some seats over the next two weeks. Unbelievable result for Leinster though, delighted for the province.

propertymad wrote:

arsebiscuits1 wrote: ↑April 15th, 2024, 12:49 pm

propertymad wrote: ↑April 15th, 2024, 12:49 pm Not a tighthead .... an Ngatai replacement who can also cover flyhalf and back three [emoji41]

A perfect back to have for any 6-2 split

Is the McKenzie rumour getting legs again??

Not McKenzie

Who is it? Haven’t seen any rumours myself.

Feel bad for Ringrose, but less concerned after Osbourne’s performances over the past couple of weeks.

Hopefully Ngatai can come back into contention soon to give us a bit of depth there should anything happen to Osbourne or Henshaw.

Do Leinster/IRFU get any money out of the Semi or does it all go to EPCR? Think it all goes to ERC with a smallish payment to clubs. I reckon Leinster must have pulled in close on €750k net from the last two weeks. You basically have to go and win the competition to get your gate receipts back.

To all the fan boys in the Irish media who drooled and dribbled at O'Gara's feet for the past 2 years but especially this week - thank you for the extra motivation that you provided to the Leinster team and supporters today. Assume you'll be hoping for a saints win in Croke park? Sent from my VOG-L...

Defence was absolutely supreme today. La Rochelle really never looked like scoring a point, they were gifted all of the points they got and created nothing. Ruck defence was insane. I don’t think we conceded a single jackal turnover in the entire 80 minutes, and made absolute shite of their ruck bal...

When do La Rochelle announce their team? Nothing from the social channels yet

The reality is that home advantage is huge in rugby, we’ve been a top two side in Europe for pretty much six years at this point, we have to be favourites for this game. Yes, we shat the bed against the same opposition last season, but we really should have won that one too.

Presume it was supposed to be Luke McGrath. He’s the only first 23 injury missing there

I see we scored 14 tries, I guess we also converted every one of them too for 98 points? Mad.

The loss at home to Ulster is biting us here. In retrospect, it was a shocking result against an absolute dog sh!t Ulster team, but what can you do.