Dave Cahill wrote:Leinster Rugby (caps in brackets):
15. Jordan Larmour (39)
14. Dave Kearney (139)
13. Garry Ringrose (65)
12. Joe Tomane (18)
11. James Lowe (34)
10. Johhny Sexton (160) CAPTAIN
9. Luke McGrath (114)
1. Cian Healy (209)
2. Rónan Kelleher (7)
3. Andrew Porter (54)
4. Devin Toner (236)
5. James Ryan (31)
6. Rhys Ruddock (162)
7. Josh van der Flier (73)
8. Caelan Doris (21)
16. James Tracy (98)
17. Peter Dooley (66)
18. Michael Bent (130)
19. Scott Fardy (48)
20. Max Deegan (52)
21. Jamison Gibson-Park (76)
22. Ross Byrne (76)
23. Rory O’Loughlin (66)
I like it - nice balance mixing in some of the new and returning, not sure how much better it could have been !!
Henshaw obviously not fully recovered, Tomane deserves the start and the only odd one really is Furlong not starting / benching. Perhaps a niggle. Cronin must not be fit either.
Larmour clearly to me outplayed Kearney in the WC and perhaps we are seeing a changing of the guard there but having Rob this season not exactly a problem as a hugely experienced backup.
Will Connors, Harry Byrne and arguably a couple of others could have been in there but these are good problems - mixture of new and old pushing for places.
We are in a good place atm - full points tomorrow the target and we should be aiming to win all our pool games and be top seed and then push on from there.