There was also that first half display against NGD on the last day of the season. We smashed them in the SH - I think even Niall Ronan bagged a try - but the first 40 was awful.cormac wrote:Ah, the Gary Ella season. Comfortably the worst coach we've had at Leinster. Think that was the first season they issued season tickets for, it's amazing that anyone renewed after watching the dross that year. Pretty sure we finished 8th in the league, barely finishing ahead of Connacht.
Lowlights include;
- conceding 10 points to Edinburgh in the 10th minute of injury time early in the season to lose 33-30 at home. David Quinlan being red carded for calling the tj a "blind c***" being the icing on the cake of that particular horror-show.
- failing to register Felipe for the HEC.
- Matt Leek at fly-half, he made Eddie Hekenui look like Dan Carter. Himself and Bommer were the worst half-back pairing I've ever seen.
- John McWeeney dropping the ball after crossing the line away to Biarritz, an error that ended up being the difference between winning the group and missing out on the quarter-finals.
- being absolutely hammered at home by the Celtic Warriors, 16-37.
- an attendance of 1,068 for the home game against the Ospreys in April 2004.
- a sequence of seven defeats in a row
- losing to Ulster
Mal O'Kelly's certain but ungiven try in defeat Sale and Tom Jones singing before 25,000 people at the LR group game v Cardiff.