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Munster excuse #1905 - Leinster lost to Glasgow a few weeks ago, thereby preventing Munster a home semi final.

Van Graan is scraping the barrel with that one.

Guys - Glasgow supporter and long time reader of your site. But thought I'd give some West of Scotland context and may well be an over reaction on my side. Not a Rangers or Celtic fan, in fact not a football fan at all but exposed to it all my life.....was planning to go with my young son to the ga...

1. Healy 2. Cronin 3. Furlong 4. Fardy 5. Ryan 6. Ruddock 7. JVDF 8. Conan 9. McGrath 10. Sexton 11. Lowe 12. Henshaw 13. Ringrose 14. Larmour 15. Neil Lennon Fair play to Leo for getting the Glasgow crowd motivated in a way years of decent rugby didn't! This has the making of a cracking final, can ...

Going back to a previous post re Munster using nothing but brute force and niggle. It's a very good point. Munster seem to use "niggle" as a tactic, rather than actual like rugby tactics. They have some top players, so it works to a certain level but just bringing intensity and passion doe...

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+1, Stand up for the ample

We won't fall off the face of the earth and the newbies are super players, but we could well be 20% off for a while, meaning no trophies and just Pro-14 semis to look forward to for a while. Hope I am wrong. Casting a long eye over where we have gone since say the early '00's - that, while not nice...

On paper (I know the teams haven't been announced) and using Saracens as the yardstick we should beat Munster. Fatigue, injuries and mental well being would be the main concerns. Could the refereeing team be a factor. Would we fancy playing Ulster(again) in the final? The weather isn't looking grea...

Thats the one - fair play

Nothing to do with fickleness. Johnny has not been in good form for quite a while now. That's at least significant. The evidence from the 6Ns is, at the very least, worrying. I'm willing to except that describing it as substantial is, perhaps, an over statement. Had Kearney not been harshly pinged ...

On the bigger picture & the call for us to bring in new "top level" players because of how the final went - our system has gotten us to 5 finals in 10 years - winning 4, that's a good measure of success. Last year we did ok against Saracens, which were very similar teams to this year....

Stop calling him 'killer'. Guy is very overrated. Can't scrummage and makes a couple of decent runs with ball in hand over 80 mins. Would ger eaten alive if he played in the English premiership. Poor mans Healy. You're right. Nicknames have to be 100% accurate to traits and ability. Prime example: ...

There was a set of stats before the game comparing both clubs (on twitter i think, maybe from lequip - but cant find it now) The issue it highlighted was that the starters in Saracens had played a lot more minutes of Rugby than the Leinster starters. The other thing that jumped out was the both club...

To get to the level of performance to win HCUPs and perform at the elite national level you need a situation where you have test class players two or three deep to push each other forward. McGrath and Healy should be duking it out for first choice, Murphy should be forcing his way back in with exce...

on a last note, with ten minutes to go and ten points down, any other team would have conceded at least one try to Saracens, IMO, as they were banging on the gate very loudly. Our fellas though didn't buckle. The game as a contest was essentially over and yet they defended the Leinster try line, as...

Thats the problem of having a good academy system, players have to leave to get opportunity. We are producing players in positions every couple of years at most, for careers that may last over a decade. Most have their progression blocked by guys slightly older, or by being leap frogged by a youngst...

Hope they dig deep and give one hell of a backlash

Looking back, soon close - a few ifs and buts and we would have been the ones strangling the last 10 minutes out of the game. Saracens are some team though, and hats off to Mark McCall. People are asking why Luke did not kick it out a 40. Because we usually score or at least inflict pressure from th...

Blueberry wrote:Leinster by 8.....

Go back to the saracens fan site with that type of heresy!

Saracens by 14

Ruckedtobits wrote:Have English Sports Teams used up that Nation's supply of Luck and Emotion for this week? Debate

Debate? - Bate into them!