Leinster V Cardiff, Sat 28th Jan 17:05

[roarlad]

From Ross Petty on Twitter on Twitter, shows the scale of the international call ups by team.
Leinster will be up against it..

https://twitter.com/rpetty80

[Blue not red blood]

I was looking at that Stormers game a couple of weeks ago and felt it would be tricky due to player availability.
Hopefully they will drop points In the meantime and it won’t have a major significance.
Hopefully by then we will have a few of the long term guys back and guys who were bit players in the 6 Nations

[Dexter]

The SA teams have a big advantage during the 6N

[paddyor]

The SA teams have a big advantage during the 6N

I think they're losing the Boks to triaining camps over the 6Ns.

[ronk]

Hopefully the round of SA derbies so us a favour with the Stormers losing.

We get to play teams missing internationals in our games too, until we have our top of the table (so far) clash with the Stormers.

All of Munsters games except the Scarlets one will be against teams missing more players than them. Jammy barstewards. Even then the Scarlets are missing 6 players and Munster are at home. Should be 4 easy enough wins, 2 against teams just ahead of them. The 2 teams below them play us.

[blockhead]

Jenkins is the image on the Leinster website for this game.
Is he back?

[mildlyinterested]

Soooo...

1. Milne
2. McKee
3. Mike A
4. Molony
5. Deeny
6. Ruddock
7. Penny
8. Deegan
9. McGrath
10. Byrne
11. Kearney
12. Brownlee
13. Turner
14. Russell
15. Cosgrave
16. McElroy
17. Hanan
18. Clarkson
19. Soroka
20. Connors
21. Foley
22. Tector
23. Culhane

[Serb]

Think we will go that second string? We should have all the internationals at that point still, I’d expect a much stronger squad personally.

[mildlyinterested]

Think we will go that second string? We should have all the internationals at that point still, I’d expect a much stronger squad personally.

the internationals are all absent this week for training camp in portugal.

[Serb]

Ah ok, wasn't aware, that's a fairly callow team so, particularly in the backs

[mildlyinterested]

similar to side that went to Scarlets and won earlier in the season:

Leinster Rugby (caps in brackets):

15. Chris Cosgrave (2)
14. Rob Russell (9)
13. Liam Turner (7)
12. Charlie Ngatai (5)
11. Dave Kearney (176)
10. Ross Byrne (134)
9. Luke McGrath (180)
1. Ed Byrne (89)
2. John McKee (7)
3. Thomas Clarkson (19)
4. Ross Molony (145)
5. Jason Jenkins (5)
6. Rhys Ruddock (212) CAPTAIN
7. Scott Penny (43)
8. Max Deegan (86)

16. Tadgh McElroy (0)
17. Michael Milne (18)
18. Vakhtang Abdaladze (20)
19. Brian Deeny (3)
20. Martin Moloney (9)
21. Nick McCarthy (50)
22. Charlie Tector (0)
23. Ben Brownlee (0)

but even greener.

[desperado]

it would be nice to have a Ngati and or DK peppered in the backs for a bit of 'nous'. It would be great to get Jenkins back.. the longer his absence the more I worry. Think he and Furlong are going to be key come the business end. Big Mike will be running on fumes come the end of the 6N; unless Tom C really steps up.

[mildlyinterested]

AFAIK Ngati is out for a few weeks.

[hugonaut]

it would be nice to have a Ngati and or DK peppered in the backs for a bit of 'nous'. It would be great to get Jenkins back.. the longer his absence the more I worry. Think he and Furlong are going to be key come the business end. Big Mike will be running on fumes come the end of the 6N; unless Tom C really steps up.

I think there is plenty of rest for players who aren't playing in the Six Nations. There's the game against Cardiff [at home], then two weekends off, then the game against the Dragons [at home], then a week off, then the game in Edinburgh and another two weeks off before the Stormers game [at home]. Very little travel and plenty of weekends off.

Leo's decision on Jenkins will be made by the medical staff, I'm sure. From what has been released, it was a hamstring injury. The longer the rest, the better. If he's not ready for Cardiff, he will have that weekend plus the next two off before the Dragons game. If the medics think he's ready to play, he'll probably play.

[RoboProp]

it would be nice to have a Ngati and or DK peppered in the backs for a bit of 'nous'. It would be great to get Jenkins back.. the longer his absence the more I worry. Think he and Furlong are going to be key come the business end. Big Mike will be running on fumes come the end of the 6N; unless Tom C really steps up.

I think there is plenty of rest for players who aren't playing in the Six Nations. There's the game against Cardiff [at home], then two weekends off, then the game against the Dragons [at home], then a week off, then the game in Edinburgh and another two weeks off before the Stormers game [at home]. Very little travel and plenty of weekends off.

Leo's decision on Jenkins will be made by the medical staff, I'm sure. From what has been released, it was a hamstring injury. The longer the rest, the better. If he's not ready for Cardiff, he will have that weekend plus the next two off before the Dragons game. If the medics think he's ready to play, he'll probably play.

Yeah, agree with that. Best not to rush back with a bad hammy especially in the row

[curates_egg]

Soooo...

1. Milne
2. McKee
3. Mike A
4. Molony
5. Jenkins
6. Soroka
7. Penny
8. Deegan
9. McGrath
10. Byrne
11. Kearney
12. Brownlee
13. Turner
14. Russell
15. Cosgrave
16. McElroy
17. Hanan
18. Clarkson
19. Deeny
20. Connors
21. Foley
22. Tector
23. Culhane

No real alternative to Mike, but a start here will put him over 800 minutes this season with us (and then his time with Samoa).
Any appearance for Molony will put him over 900 minutes - he and Ross are neck and neck for most minutes played this season.

I wonder will we see Prendergast on the bench ahead of Tector? He's been involved with a couple of the matchday squads lately I think?

[cormac]

Soooo...

1. Milne
2. McKee
3. Mike A
4. Molony
5. Jenkins
6. Soroka
7. Penny
8. Deegan
9. McGrath
10. Byrne
11. Kearney
12. Brownlee
13. Turner
14. Russell
15. Cosgrave
16. McElroy
17. Hanan
18. Clarkson
19. Deeny
20. Connors
21. Foley
22. Tector
23. Culhane

No real alternative to Mike, but a start here will put him over 800 minutes this season with us (and then his time with Samoa).
Any appearance for Molony will put him over 900 minutes - he and Ross are neck and neck for most minutes played this season.

I wonder will we see Prendergast on the bench ahead of Tector? He's been involved with a couple of the matchday squads lately I think?

Assume Prendergast will be with the U-20's.

[mildlyinterested]

Soooo...

1. Milne
2. McKee
3. Mike A
4. Molony
5. Jenkins
6. Soroka
7. Penny
8. Deegan
9. McGrath
10. Byrne
11. Kearney
12. Brownlee
13. Turner
14. Russell
15. Cosgrave
16. McElroy
17. Hanan
18. Clarkson
19. Deeny
20. Connors
21. Foley
22. Tector
23. Culhane

No real alternative to Mike, but a start here will put him over 800 minutes this season with us (and then his time with Samoa).
Any appearance for Molony will put him over 900 minutes - he and Ross are neck and neck for most minutes played this season.

I wonder will we see Prendergast on the bench ahead of Tector? He's been involved with a couple of the matchday squads lately I think?

Assume Prendergast will be with the U-20's.

Yep.

[mildlyinterested]

I wonder will we see Prendergast on the bench ahead of Tector? He's been involved with a couple of the matchday squads lately I think?

Prendergast was exposed to match day squads, but Tector has actually played.

Also irish 20s camp this weekend.

[curates_egg]

I wonder will we see Prendergast on the bench ahead of Tector? He's been involved with a couple of the matchday squads lately I think?

Prendergast was exposed to match day squads, but Tector has actually played.

Also irish 20s camp this weekend.

Ah. Well that's that.

Yeah. I know Tector has played but I was reading through the lines that Prendergast was being 'groomed' for senior squad integration. Won't be until after the six nations if at all so.
Good opportunity for Tector to turn the coaches' heads.