Babbling 'brook

There's a very long list of players who have left the Leinster setup either by choice or by IRFU edict whose careers and international prospects either crashed and burned or at best fizzled out. Conway and Beirne are the only real exceptions I can think of. Cooney, eventually. Cult hero up north. O...

I would be surprised if the injury update gave much away to be honest. I can imagine they'll keep cards close to chest. If Henshaw and Kelleher are fit and ready to go, they'll probably say nothing more than 'will be assessed as the week progresses' or whatever. It's so hard to predict the team her...

his pass presumably. I have to agreewith that - the number of times that he had to change grip on the ball against Sharks before passing was surprising Unfortunately for Luke while his pass will not totally get found out at club level, at international level it would be totally found out. Really sa...

Brian Moore in the Tgraph

If you reintroduce the madcap spectre of seasonal promotion and relegation, all you will do is destabilise the situation further.

I thought they loved the oul relegation thingy. Wasn't it the lack of that which made our league a joke?

The South Africans think the URC is great. 46,888 was flashed across the screen yesterday at the match in Cape Town. A record crowd for the season. I hope their enthusiasm spreads north rather than the other way around. Enjoy it while it lasts lads. The Saffers will dominate Europe totally within 5...

This weekend showed a true reflection of what the general public think of the URC. 14.6k fans turned up to see one of the best teams in the world play in a quarter final. That is following a week where 46k showed up to watch the same team play in a Euro semi, which many complained was over priced. ...

Yeah Larmour has had chances in the last two weeks and while he hasn't fupped up he hasn't pulled up any trees either. And he needed to pull up some trees. Not many oppourtunities left to impress FAZ.

The regular season game was a sell out. Only 14k today. Disappointing TBH. Can't say its a finance issue, we're probably the richest fanbase in world rugby. And I don't want any Tw@t coming on here givin me sh!t about that last sentence. Its probably true, and if not its damm close. You can see Leo...

The regular season game was a sell out. Only 14k today. Disappointing TBH. Can't say its a finance issue, we're probably the richest fanbase in world rugby. And I don't want any Tw@t coming on here givin me sh!t about that last sentence. Its probably true, and if not its damm close. You can see Leo ...

Should be a big Munster crowd there with tickets probably going on public sale which will be a nice little extra earner for us. Well, in fairness, we could do with every cent we can get since we're well known to be the "poor" club of European Rugby! 😁 Think this is a URC gig and we don’t ...

We've had some good ideas off our League cousins over the years but this will have crowds flocking in. Pre-match warm up with a difference.
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That loss will really hurt Ulster. A poor Season. I don't think they ever recovered from their loss in RDS in December after been 1 man up and 22-3 ahead! Finished top two in the league though, right? That’s at least an objectively OK season. But there is something missing. Judging by the build up ...

Twist wrote: ↑May 5th, 2023, 10:37 pm Something I only just noticed; no Leinster player has ever won POTY. Am I the last person to realise this??

You need to play a lot of games during the season to be in the running for that award and our lot are rotated more than others.

This Connacht win really opens the door for the Stormers. Beat the Bulls tomorrow and surely they will beat Connacht in the semi at home. And if we don't come up trumps ourselves then the final will be in their own ground.

Very poor advert for Irish Rugby for the first 60mins, the amount of errors, jeez. Dramatic finish now doubt. Ulster, what can you say, a place in the final was a minimum for them, they didn't fire a shot until an hour gone. At home! Connacht dominated most of that game without even coming close to ...

GT in the IT

Furthermore, that Sharks team didn’t have Lukhanyo Am, Makazole Mapimpi and Bongi Mbonambi. This quarter-final will certainly be on a par with last year’s, and for Leinster any URC title will be harder earned than the Pro14 five-in-row before last season.

He's losin it!

Munster (vs Glasgow) Munster: Mike Haley; Calvin Nash, Antoine Frisch, Malakai Fekitoa, Shane Daly; Jack Crowley, Conor Murray; Jeremy Loughman, Diarmuid Barron, Stephen Archer; Jean Kleyn, RG Snyman; Tadhg Beirne, Peter O’Mahony (C), Gavin Coombes. Replacements: Niall Scannell, Josh Wycherley, Roma...

Rumours that Cadbury is about to jump clubs (this time to France) mid contract again rather than stay at Munster and fight for his place there and for Ireland. If true, that means he's jumped ship because he couldn't get past Byrne at Clontarf, Leinster and Ireland and now doesn't fancy his chances...

Might I suggest, without fear of being to told to go F myself, that those searching for tickets for the Heino Final in vain might consider going to the Aviva tomorrow to support the team in a do or die game against one of the most talented teams in World Rugby? Leinster need our support. Who knows, ...

With the Welsh regions ostensibly fielding academy teams for the foreseeable future, I could see the provinces, in general, and Leinster, in particular, coming under a degree of pressure to send their first team(s) down to fixtures in SA in the future, in order to keep URC competition standards up....