Toulon v Leinster

[Oldschool]

A couple of years ago we lost a game to Toulin in the first ten mins of the 2nd half.
So that's the bench mark.
The 2nd half.
The next ten minutes.

[tate]

Rhys has been outstanding.

+1

van der Flier has been excellent too.

J10 playing kicking from hand and passing have been poor.

If we cut out the self inflicted errors we could well do this

[Oldschool]

It's definitely winnable, if Johnny can cut out the poor kicking and we make slightly less handling errors we can pull it off. We have them in the line-out and are edging the scrums, and competing well against one of the best breakdown sides around.

I'm struggling to remember when Sexton last played well.
He's an accident waiting to happen at the moment .

[meinster]

Don't get the fuss about Healy tbh.

It was a definite yellow, at the very least. The fact that he took the risk of it being a red is silly (for an off-ball incident, when the momentum was swinging Leinster's way. He looks better alright, but still very, very off anywhere near his best. Hopefully he can get back there soon!

We've also mixed things up well

Definitely. Some very smart play out there, and not down to individual player glimpses. There's cohesion in the different planes of attack, which is encouraging.

Whether the storm for 15-20 mins, and it's on!

[LeRouxIsPHat]

Barely seen Ben in attack. We're right to move them around and not be overly direct, but hopefully we can con them into taking their eye off him a bit.

[neiliog93]

Jesus Johnny. Outrageous stepping from Luke gets no reward. If he doesn't sort it out by the 50th minute I'd actually take him off. Heresy I know.

[LeRouxIsPHat]

Maybe Jimmy wasn't so bad after all.

[neiliog93]

Christ.

[neiliog93]

He's actually losing us this game, squandered a good attacking position with a terrible pass leading to a knock-on, then our scrum does great work to get a kickable penalty from a Toulon put-in at the scrum, and he shanks it. Everyone else is doing their job.

[LeRouxIsPHat]

Don't think we deserved to be on a warning at all.

I'm guessing the dam is about to burst but great effort in defence there.

Strauss down AGAIN, really don't want to see him again for a long long time.

[neiliog93]

I'd be inclined to be worried about Strauss here. He didn't get directly knocked on the head by Manoa there at all but still went down.

[Keith]

Don't think we deserved to be on a warning at all.

I'm guessing the dam is about to burst but great effort in defence there.

Strauss down AGAIN, really don't want to see him again for a long long time.

Strauss should be taking a long break from the game not starting against Toulon. He's been really off form this season which is clearly down to all these knocks to the head.

[tate]

Strauss is heading for early retirement, if you pardob the phrasing

[LeRouxIsPHat]

Delon doesn't have to release no? Nige is giving them everything.

[neiliog93]

For a lot of these fat boy penalties at the rucks Toulon players are not supporting their bodyweight at all. Holding-on is a generally very overpowered penalty in rugby at the moment. Nigel threatening a yellow card next time is ridiculous.

[neiliog93]

Get Sexton off.

[LeRouxIsPHat]

For a lot of these fat boy penalties at the rucks Toulon players are not supporting their bodyweight at all. Holding-on is a generally very overpowered penalty in rugby at the moment. Nigel threatening a yellow card next time is ridiculous.

It's funny because I've been really annoyed with Steffon Armitage getting away with that for years but refs seem to have cracked down on him and are oblivious to everyone else doing it instead.

[Logorrhea]

Johnny has handed them 5 or 6 free turnovers. Hes a fine player, hugely important but he's playing shite. Take him the f*ck off.

[Logorrhea]

add another one to that list with that pass to the floor

[Oldschool]

Leadership starts with the coach.
57mibs in Sexton has to come off, he's killing us.