Zebre v. Leinster Sunday 3PM RTE

[lummix]

Think cooneys decision making is poor, his timing of pass is awful. Bents been awful in the scrum, if he doesn't start next season well is cut my losses on him and release him.

[sid]

Bloody hell.

[Blue not red blood]

Dont see a mild mannerer Joe at Ht.
Btw can u fly straight to connacht from Parma?
Put carr on a plane now

[Dave Cahill]

FFS! Take Carr off now. How dense can one player be?

Put him on a plane at half time, he can be in Galway in time for Connacht training on Monday morning.

[Hippo]

Near side touch judge has missed every Zebre crooked lineout as well as the Bergamasco 'tackle'. Carr obviously, and Kev to a lesser extent having shockers. Woeful defence, embarrassing.

[Ruckedtobits]

That has been as sloppy a 20-minute spell as we have put in for two Seasons.

We need more care with the ball in possession. We need to put more men into every breakdown, their and ours. If we give their scrum-half bad ball, there will be knock-ons and loose ball available. We also need to tighten our defence close to the breakdown where they have four line-breaks so far.

This game is winnable with a bonus points - but only if we do the hard work first.

I hope that Joe and Jonno are there, because our pack need a toe up the h**e for their performance in the last 20 minutes of that half.

[BlueArmyOriginal]

We're just trying to score the best try of the season off 1st/2nd phase every time we have the ball. We need to calm it down and build the phases, if we do that we'll win easily cos this Zebre team are absolutely there for the taking!

Question: Is Bergamasco a vital player against Clermont next week and in with a chance of going on the Lions tour? If not he's looking at a ban!

[slum]

Dont see a mild mannerer Joe at Ht.
Btw can u fly straight to connacht from Parma?
Put carr on a plane now

I think Carr would look out of place playing for Zebre. Can't remember ever seeing a worse performance from a player in a Leinster jersey.

Realistically though, we should come out in the 2nd half and hammer them in first 15.

[Donny B.]

Jack McGrath ruins another attack with a frankly thick pass.

[Donny B.]

We're just trying to score the best try of the season off 1st/2nd phase every time we have the ball. We need to calm it down and build the phases, if we do that we'll win easily cos this Zebre team are absolutely there for the taking!

Question: Is Bergamasco a vital player against Clermont next week and in with a chance of going on the Lions tour? If not he's looking at a ban!

Nah, the local disciplinary officer Ernesto Walsini has already looked at it and deemed that there was no intent.

[Donny B.]

Hagan on for Bent.

[bluemagic]

FIONN CARRRRRRR

[Donny B.]

Even Carr couldn't f%~k that one up. Lucky bounce but good work from Isa.

[Blue not red blood]

Fionn carr legend!!!
Isa looked a mile offside

[Eristic]

Isa was definitely eh... veey quick there.

Anyone else think fionn carr looks like Butters Stotch?

[Donny B.]

Isa offside by the looks of that replay. Ryle Nugent oblivious to it...

[cwebber82]

Carr really is a very average player. Makes very poor decisions.

Bent is really not good enough for Leinster either at this stage. Needs plenty of work in pre season. Next season will be make or break for him.

Cooney and McGrath are positives..

[Hippo]

If Isa was offside it was very marginal, I've seen a lot worse let go!

[Donny B.]

Goodman having a very poor match defensively.

[Donny B.]

Don't know why Cooney took a ball from a moving maul to put up a pointless box kick. His option-taking today hasn't been great has it?