Leinster v Gloucester Sat 20th August

[johng]

I have somehow ended up with 3 extra tickets for this if anyone is paying in on the gate

[LeinsterLeader]

Mad try for Lein there. Adam Byrne. 5 All now. Gloucester much better up to now. Hayden T has been immense

[LeinsterLeader]

19-12 to Lein. Byrne and McCarthy x 2 with the tries

[Cianostays]

Thanks for the updates

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[LeinsterLeader]

Thanks for the updates

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I thought nobody was listening. 26-24 Lein. Not long left. They're looking more likely though

[LeinsterLeader]

That's it. We hung on. Very enjoyable in terrible conditions. Some lovely attacking rugby but defence coulda been better. A lot of errors but probably to be expected.

[Kinger83]

Full-time. 26-24 to Leinster.

[Cianostays]

Always good to get the win. Were Gloucester playing the kids also?

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[paddyor]

Rory O'Loughlin with a try. Good game from him?

[cormac]

D24tress

[LeinsterLeader]

Always good to get the win. Were Gloucester playing the kids also?

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Not sure but they did have a lot of their starters playing in either half ( Hook, twelvetrees etc.). I'd wager they had the more experienced side alright

[sunshiner1]

How did Nagle do?

[simonokeeffe]

Mad try for Lein there. Adam Byrne. 5 All now. Gloucester much better up to now. Hayden T has been immense

He must have read the comments

[alanair]

How did Nagle do?

Nagle did same as last week... anonymous

on the other hand the other locks, Molony & Triggs, really good

[wise7]

It was pretty awful really. no direction whatsover in the first half. Somewhat better in the second but still way short of where we would expect it to be. A rudderless unspiring and worrying performance. The coaching ticket is exposed.

[Cianostays]

It was pretty awful really. no direction whatsover in the first half. Somewhat better in the second but still way short of where we would expect it to be. A rudderless unspiring and worrying performance. The coaching ticket is exposed.

In a pre season friendly? That's a bit premature surely

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[erskinechilders]

O'Loughlin seems to be having a really good pre season. At the start of the year I couldn't understand why he was still on the books but he's proving me very wrong..... long may it continue!!

[hugonaut]

It was pretty awful really. no direction whatsover in the first half. Somewhat better in the second but still way short of where we would expect it to be. A rudderless unspiring and worrying performance. The coaching ticket is exposed.

Seems like a very harsh assessment of a pre-season game which we won with a very young, very inexperienced and very unsettled selection against a team featuring multiple internationals [James Hook, Billy Twelvetrees, Matt Scott, John Afoa, Ross Moriarty, Richard Hibbard, Ben Morgan amongst others].

[FourMasters]

It was pretty awful really. no direction whatsover in the first half. Somewhat better in the second but still way short of where we would expect it to be. A rudderless unspiring and worrying performance. The coaching ticket is exposed.

Crikey, who worries about a pre-season where players started, went off, and came back on again? Of course, the direction was lacking. The referee did well to make sure there wasn't 16 vs 16 on the pitch.

I hope for Glaws sake that James Hook is a slow starter, as he was very poor. Fair dues to their supporters, they added some noise - and some interesting costumes

Who was the young fair-haired prop for Leinster, came on as a sub? Small and compact fellow, looked to have a bit about him.

Carberry came on and instilled some of the direction that wise7 was lamenting about. Then moved to fullback, and didn't seem out of place.

In all, a useful hit-out as Gloucester are no mugs, and seemed a little more hungry than Ulster last week. Leinster forwards looked to get their hands free in the tackle, didn't always get the ball away, but we scored a nice try when it worked.

[cormac]

It was pretty awful really. no direction whatsover in the first half. Somewhat better in the second but still way short of where we would expect it to be. A rudderless unspiring and worrying performance. The coaching ticket is exposed.

Who was the young fair-haired prop for Leinster, came on as a sub? Small and compact fellow, looked to have a bit about him.

sounds like Jeremy Loughman

http://www.leinsterrugby.ie/team/result ... ef=dynamic