Leinster v Edinburgh - Sat 10th May - RDS - KO 18.30

[goreyguy]

Attacking play is basically - pass one out from the ruck, run into nearest defender. Pass one out from the ruck, run into nearest defender. Etc etc.

[offshorerules]

Score? Out of country. Link anyone?

[Green]

8 v 6

http://nfl-streaming.tv/stream14.html

[Made Of Ale]

Score? Out of country. Link anyone?

8-6 to us after 53 mins. I'm watching on this: http://nfl-streaming.tv/stream14.html

[domhnallj]

15-6 now

[goreyguy]

Putrid.. Leinster aren't winning any cups aslong as Matt O'Connor is the coach..

[Avenger]

Putrid.. Leinster aren't winning any cups aslong as Matt O'Connor is the coach..

It's brutal to watch but there's a strong chance they'll win this with home advantage throughout playoffs.

[goreyguy]

Putrid.. Leinster aren't winning any cups aslong as Matt O'Connor is the coach..

It's brutal to watch but there's a strong chance they'll win this with home advantage throughout playoffs.

No doubt, but the rugby is awful and the coaching isn't much better..

[Keith]

Macken is certainly a winger.

[Degz]

Isaac Boss, your time has come. Thanks for the memories.

[goreyguy]

Why was Boss still on the field? Also skill levels of everyone have regressed massively.

[cwebber82]

Leinster's biggest problem is MOC. He's just a bad fit for Leinster. Not up to the job.

He's getting the David Moyes treatment by the media. Everybody can see he's out of his depth but nobody saying it.

[goreyguy]

With France/England having the money advantage Leinster need to have the coaching advantage and under MOC we will never...

[blockhead]

Leinster's biggest problem is MOC. He's just a bad fit for Leinster. Not up to the job.

He's getting the David Moyes treatment by the media. Everybody can see he's out of his depth but nobody saying it.

At least give him the chance to bring in his own players in the summer transfer window.

[Danthefan]

That was just appalling.

Faith in MOC swiftly vanishing.

[blockhead]

We conceded 16 less tries this term under MOC than we did last year with Joe. Something positive I suppose.

[[Jackass]]

Remember when we focused on being the best passing team in Europe? Now we're a brute force, phase after phase, midfield crash ball team. We play absolutely awful rugby and rely on individual sparks to make things happen, Edinburgh showed you can just stay out of rucks and pack the midfield and we're completely clueless.

We are an extremely, extremely average team with better players than most which enables us to just about win games, but not through any discernible or intelligent game plan.

Against good teams this season: Beat Ulster at home in a arm-wrestle penalty shootout at home and limped home against a 14 man Ulster away who are in injury crisis, scraped an undeserved losing bonus point away to Munster and just about got over the line at home in another sparkless arm wrestle. Glasgow away we hadn't a clue and at home should have lost but Glasgow were happy enough with a losing bonus, but had they been more cut throat would have beaten us as we were on the ropes, Northampton collapsed in their own backyard (and we've been dining out on that one game all season to harp back to) and said they'd put it right the next week and bullied us off the park and we couldn't create or finish anything, hung on for most of the game, O's aren't the team they were, but still beat us there in the league when we just couldn't find a way through, couldn't shake them at home either, ending in a draw, in Europe we did well against them. Castres at home couldn't create anything and won a penalty shootout, away we managed to claw our way through...The only top class team we've played all season, Toulon, completely showed us up as a no trick poney.

I still think we may win the league, we better give we've now clawed first spot, but by God we've played awful all season and fair enough we've dragged games into messy, scrappy shoot outs all through the season and come out on top more often than not, but we've majorly rode our luck at times and all it takes is the odd sucker punch (Edinburgh today got a big break near the end, we couldn't put a team that bad away), or see final minute try in Aviva against Northampton that denied us a home quarter...

It's all well and good winning, but your luck runs out and with the squad we have, we should be looking to outplay teams, not just bash it up and cling on and live off mistakes and try not to make any...

Very, very disappointed again, more confusing as we won again, but it's just car crash rugby...

[fourthirtythree]

My goodness but that was awful. Really awful.

Our backplay was as poor as it has been all season but today the forwards contributed with a pretty inept performance also.

Dave Kearney was my man of the match, his spin and step which set the first try in motion was the best piece of attacking play we did.

Thankfully I forgot to DVR that or I would be tempted to watch it now. It was hard enough first time.

[ichabodscrane]

Has anyone watched MOC's post match interview that was uploaded onto YouTube a few mins ago. 2mins long and as far as I could tell he seemed very blasé about tonight's dreadful performance. He doesn't come across as a man who is being criticised for his style of play or his handling of the Madigan/Gopperth situation (on here at least)

[Raydollard]

What a shocking performance but entirely predictable with the woefully pedestrian Gopperth at outhalf. He is completely out of his depth.

And that plonker O'Connor continues his blackguarding of Madigan.