Leinster v Connacht Sat 19.45

[The Doc]

George Clancy on Saturday.

Can the two teams agree beforehand to just not have any scrums - pointless with him

[Ruckedtobits]

George Clancy on Saturday.

Did EPCR game last weekend and was fine. Has a natural affinity with whoever Leinster are playing against, but not afraid to make real decisions. Prefer him to lots of others.

[Xanthippe]

Off the top of my head I can only think of James Ryan as the only loaned player to return. There must be more but I can’t think of any.

Think Cooney returned for a few minutes in a home loss to the Dragons in one of the craziest bits of player management of the MOC era.

He did and the following week he was back playing for Connacht - again v Dragons except this time the game was in Rodney Parade and JC was MOTM

[curates_egg]

George Clancy on Saturday.

Did EPCR game last weekend and was fine. Has a natural affinity with whoever Leinster are playing against, but not afraid to make real decisions. Prefer him to lots of others.

Seriously? What other refs that are still reffing are more biased against Leinster than him?
Fitzgibbon is retired. Lacey was the least biased of the Munster Branch refs IMO. I cannot think of another ref still in the game that systematically refs Leinster off the park.

[artaneboy]

George Clancy on Saturday.

Did EPCR game last weekend and was fine. Has a natural affinity with whoever Leinster are playing against, but not afraid to make real decisions. Prefer him to lots of others.

Seriously? What other refs that are still reffing are more biased against Leinster than him?
Fitzgibbon is retired. Lacey was the least biased of the Munster Branch refs IMO. I cannot think of another ref still in the game that systematically refs Leinster off the park.

I don’t think Ckany’s biased- just terrible. Pedantic- yet misses loads, and with no feel for a game.

Lacey was fine by me. We need to leave the blue tinted specs off here a bit on officials.


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[curates_egg]

Did EPCR game last weekend and was fine. Has a natural affinity with whoever Leinster are playing against, but not afraid to make real decisions. Prefer him to lots of others.

Seriously? What other refs that are still reffing are more biased against Leinster than him?
Fitzgibbon is retired. Lacey was the least biased of the Munster Branch refs IMO. I cannot think of another ref still in the game that systematically refs Leinster off the park.

I don’t think Ckany’s biased- just terrible. Pedantic- yet misses loads, and with no feel for a game.

Lacey was fine by me. We need to leave the blue tinted specs off here a bit on officials.


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I agree on Lacey. Never had a problem with him.

I think it is reasonable, despite my blue-tinted specs, to claim that both Fitzgibbon and Clancy systematically reffed Leinster off the park in Irish derbies. You can find whatever euphemism you want to describe that, but I'm happy with biased.
If it wasn't systematic - say Poite's performance in the Pro12 final - then I would say it were simply bad reffing.

[bails]

Don't think Clancy is quite at the level of Fitzgibbon as yet.

Fitzgibbon should have been barred from going within 2 miles of a rugby ground.

Clancy is better, although he is prone to making up his own laws at times, which unfortunately he forgets later in the game.
All anyone asks is consistency and the application of the laws as they stand.
Can't always guarantee that with George.

[riocard911]

Don't think Clancy is quite at the level of Fitzgibbon as yet.

Fitzgibbon should have been barred from going within 2 miles of a rugby ground.

Clancy is better, although he is prone to making up his own laws at times, which unfortunately he forgets later in the game.
All anyone asks is consistency and the application of the laws as they stand.
Can't always guarantee that with George.

Oooh! Just waiting for Aristotle's taxonomy of the animal kingdom to kick in. Any minute now.......

[Leinsterlunatic]

Would like to see both Byrne brothers from the start on Saturday, especially Brian.

[D4surfer]

Would like to see both Byrne brothers from the start on Saturday, especially Brian.

Initially thought you meant Ross and Harry and wasn't sure where you'd fit both in. When you include Adam, we have too many Byrnes,

[R-Dog]

Would like to see both Byrne brothers from the start on Saturday, especially Brian.

Initially thought you meant Ross and Harry and wasn't sure where you'd fit both in. When you include Adam, we have too many Byrnes,

Could you image the commentary...Throw in from Byrne, taken a the front by his brother Byrne and quickly on to not his brother Byrne, back inside to his brother Byrne and a cross field kick for no ones brother Byrne tapped down to Bryan Byrne and quick hands to O'Brien and popped up for O'Brien no relation ...back inside to O'Brien still no relation...Tackled, Set up, clear out from McGrath and pick and go from Mcgrath..

... not to mention Kearney x3 or 2 other O'Briens in the Academy and 2 O'Sullivans

[Leinsterlunatic]

Would like to see both Byrne brothers from the start on Saturday, especially Brian.

Initially thought you meant Ross and Harry and wasn't sure where you'd fit both in. When you include Adam, we have too many Byrnes,

Could you image the commentary...Throw in from Byrne, taken a the front by his brother Byrne and quickly on to not his brother Byrne, back inside to his brother Byrne and a cross field kick for no ones brother Byrne tapped down to Bryan Byrne and quick hands to O'Brien and popped up for O'Brien no relation ...back inside to O'Brien still no relation...Tackled, Set up, clear out from McGrath and pick and go from Mcgrath..

Big hit from the Byrne brothers on Beirne, Byrne swoops in to clean up.

[fourthirtythree]

Needs more Kearneys.

Oh, and it's why Beirne had to go too much confusion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNBy1D1Y0h4

[OTT]

Are we to reliant on a few names in Leinster rugby. What if these names stop coming through, what if the Michaels or Rock or Clongowes have a change in focus and stop letting these surnames enrol. Currently over half of the Leinster squad are made up of a few similar surnames.

Concerned Leinster addict

[Leinsterlunatic]

5 Byrne's
3 Kearney's
3 O'Briens
2 Daly's
2 McGrath's

That's a decent starting 15...

[Jonny tight lips]

And a partridge on a pear tree

[Dexter]

Are we to reliant on a few names in Leinster rugby. What if these names stop coming through, what if the Michaels or Rock or Clongowes have a change in focus and stop letting these surnames enrol. Currently over half of the Leinster squad are made up of a few similar surnames.

Concerned Leinster addict

Now that's a really good question... hopefully it will be covered on OTB or a reputable podcast.

[wixfjord]

Are we to reliant on a few names in Leinster rugby. What if these names stop coming through, what if the Michaels or Rock or Clongowes have a change in focus and stop letting these surnames enrol. Currently over half of the Leinster squad are made up of a few similar surnames.

Concerned Leinster addict

[arsebiscuits1]

Are we to reliant on a few names in Leinster rugby. What if these names stop coming through, what if the Michaels or Rock or Clongowes have a change in focus and stop letting these surnames enrol. Currently over half of the Leinster squad are made up of a few similar surnames.

Concerned Leinster addict

Now that's a really good question... hopefully it will be covered on OTB or a reputable podcast.

And there we have Kimmages next crusade confirmed

He might be on to something with this one. More so that he usually is

[bails]

Don't think Clancy is quite at the level of Fitzgibbon as yet.

Fitzgibbon should have been barred from going within 2 miles of a rugby ground.

Clancy is better, although he is prone to making up his own laws at times, which unfortunately he forgets later in the game.
All anyone asks is consistency and the application of the laws as they stand.
Can't always guarantee that with George.

Oooh! Just waiting for Aristotle's taxonomy of the animal kingdom to kick in. Any minute now.......

In Aristotle's taxonomy of the animal kingdom, one could be in the arse species, and the other in the arsehole species