curates_egg wrote: ↑January 1st, 2023, 8:37 pm
JGP special there. He’s one of the best 9s in the world I can remember at picking and giving perfect try-scoring passes from the base. Judges the required height and speed perfectly to allow players to score.
Don’t see what the criticism above is about. He seems to be having a good game to me.
Brainless kick out at end of first half, two passes to deck, one causing knock on. Kick out on full.
He's been good in fits and spurts, but very loose and has had a few similar performances this year.
curates_egg wrote: ↑January 1st, 2023, 8:37 pm
JGP special there. He’s one of the best 9s in the world I can remember at picking and giving perfect try-scoring passes from the base. Judges the required height and speed perfectly to allow players to score.
Foley doing the same, albeit in easier circumstances.
Ngatai had a fantastic performance; easily contender for Player of the match. He really has proven to be a very shrewd signing.
Milne did well in the loose and is very able ball carrier and showed some lovely hands too
Kelleher needs to work on his darts. He's a quality player and we're lucky to have him, but the line-out was a shambles. I know he's only part of the issue when the lineout misfires, also Connacht seemed to have our line-out pegged at the away game too. Mayhaps Dooley and the Doc gave them some insights into calls and that.
Delighted for Larmour, he's been so unlucky with injury. He's added a bit of dog in his defence which is great to see.
Baird continues the tradition of Leinster forwards skinning Connacht wings started by Dan Sheehan. Happy days
RoboProp wrote: ↑January 1st, 2023, 10:29 pm
Uncollected musings on the game
Ngatai had a fantastic performance; easily contender for Player of the match. He really has proven to be a very shrewd signing.
Milne did well in the loose and is very able ball carrier and showed some lovely hands too
Kelleher needs to work on his darts. He's a quality player and we're lucky to have him, but the line-out was a shambles. I know he's only part of the issue when the lineout misfires, also Connacht seemed to have our line-out pegged at the away game too. Mayhaps Dooley and the Doc gave them some insights into calls and that.
Delighted for Larmour, he's been so unlucky with injury. He's added a bit of dog in his defence which is great to see.
Baird continues the tradition of Leinster forwards skinning Connacht wings started by Dan Sheehan. Happy days
Connacht knew all our calls and set-ups ... we're not going to show a load of variations [like we did against Racing] in a regular season league game.
Dooley and Josh Murphy only left Leinster six or seven months ago, and had made more appearances for Leinster than any of the starting pack today bar JVDF. Even though Josh Murphy wasn't playing today, he would have briefed the Murray brothers and Prendergast about our set-ups. Pete would have been the man carrying the calls to the hooker for Leinster this time last year, of course he knew what we were going to do.
