Leinster v Glasgow

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21st Century Schizoid Man wrote:Leinster lads want to start a match thread for this ?

Jasus youse Scottish lads are very slow to start new threads. Afraid it will cost you money or something?

Top of the table clash with Ulster likely to benifit from a home win. Glasgow to perhaps to stay top with an upset.

LEINSTER:
15: Isa Nacewa
14: David Kearney
13: Eoin O'Malley
12: Gordon D'Arcy
11: Andrew Conway
10: Ian Madigan
9: Isaac Boss
1: Heinke van der Merwe
2: Sean Cronin
3: Michael Bent
4: Leo Cullen CAPTAIN
5: Quinn Roux
6: Kevin McLaughlin
7: Shane Jennings
8: Jordi Murphy
REPLACEMENTS:
16: Aaron Dundon
17: Jack McGrath
18: Jamie Hagan
19: Devin Toner
20: Dominic Ryan
21: John Cooney
22: Brendan Macken
23: Fionn Carr

Glasgow Warriors team to play Leinster in Round 18 of the RaboDirect PRO12, RDS, Saturday 23 March (kick-off, 7.45pm):

15 Peter Murchie
14 Tommy Seymour
13 Alex Dunbar
12 Peter Horne
11 DTH Van der Merwe
10 Duncan Weir
9 Niko Matawalu

1 Moray Low
2 Dougie Hall
3 Ed Kalman
4 Tom Ryder
5 Al Kellock (Captain)
6 Rob Harley
7 John Barclay
8 Josh Strauss

16 Pat MacArthur
17 Gordon Reid
18 Jon Welsh
19 James Eddie
20 Ryan Wilson
21 Henry Pyrgos
22 Ruaridh Jackson
23 Sean Lamont

LeinsterFan4life wrote:I know apparently its a done deal. Its all over leinsterfans and munsterfans.

The Indo is saying he is thinking of moving there because they want to give him a chance at 13!?

Surely Earls isn't going to get snubbed like that!? And with the possibility of BOD retiring then you'd have to say he would have a good chance of the Leinster 13 jersey.

Jaysus lads we have 0 outside backs anymore

Wtf is going on at Leinster??? 3 times HC champions and struggling to hold on to players?

hope easterby has a few cards up his sleeve

Schmidt is going to take the Ireland job, that's the only explanation...and he's told his inner circle of players. So players want to be in positions that impress him. Earls is on his way to Ulster to play 15.

Just neard Ulster lost. Winner of this will take top spot.

What a kick by Dougie Hall

And try for Glasgow after agreat build up

0-5 Glasgow. Mcalman over the line.

Now 7-0

Cheap, cheap 3 points given away by Glasgow

What the hell is going on with Madigan's hair??

I'm obviously not down with the kids anymore.

Handling errors are halting glasgow's momentum. They need to just calm down and stop forcing things.

Fantastic break by DTH and Dunbar finishes off

That try was just... sick.

Great strength and feet from the alphabet man.

Yikes Glasgow are playing some lovely stuff lately. Nice feet from DTH

Superb try!

sublime try

Conway having a good game so far

This is a brilliant game.

Urghh, knockons and illdiscipline (albeit some debatable calls) letting Leinster back into the game

Aye it is exciting! Can see Glasgow getting 4 tries and still losing!

As exciting a player Niko is his scrum half core skills are pretty poor

Hmmm, Niko needs to work on his passing. And why didn't Weir pass the ball at the end there as opposed to going for the snap drop goal.

No online stream for this my friends? It would be good to see Glasgow get a win. They're a different animal in the league this season.

Are you outside the UK? Should be on the BBC Alba website but I'll drop you a PM

Agree. Weirs not getting much help from Matawalu's passing and crabbing.

I don't mind him making a few silly passes, that can be fixed with practice. But his gift at drawing defenders in, creating gaps and his blistering pace is epic! Such a great player to have in the squad, he adds a lot of class.

How good has Strauss been!! All over the place, breaking tackles and his offload for Kalmans try was class.

Horne and Dunbar are having a cracking game and Murchie has been really good too.

Wish Weir hadn't tried the sketchy drop goal. Had Leinster in a tight spot, might have been worth going through a few more phases.

Yeah, Strauss has been pretty epic tonight - interesting to see him say in the Scotsman today, "Watching Scotland do well, as they did this season, has really excited me. It’s a long way down the road, but if it ever happens I’ll be really excited about playing for Scotland."

Sweet.

bsando wrote:I don't mind him making a few silly passes, that can be fixed with practice. But his gift at drawing defenders in, creating gaps and his blistering pace is epic! Such a great player to have in the squad, he adds a lot of class.

The problem is hes not doing it tonight. Hes crabbing from the ruck looking for a gap, but never going for one, and throwing the pass instead, by which time, the defence has advanced much more than if hed just pass off the ground.

Its great when he does open teams up, but if hes going to do it, he needs to do it if that makes sense, otherwise weir is going to be getting nailed by Leinster in the second half when Schmidt inevitably tells them to start rushing him.

Strauss has been the best NSQ signing this season, by either team. Consistently excellent. I get the feeling that this game is more important for Glasgow, psychologically it would be huge if they won tonight.

EST wrote:Strauss has been the best NSQ signing this season, by either team. Consistently excellent. I get the feeling that this game is more important for Glasgow, psychologically it would be huge if they won tonight.

I think Leinster could do with a bit of a lift as well after all the talk of players leaving

Imperialbigdave wrote:

bsando wrote:I don't mind him making a few silly passes, that can be fixed with practice. But his gift at drawing defenders in, creating gaps and his blistering pace is epic! Such a great player to have in the squad, he adds a lot of class.

The problem is hes not doing it tonight. Hes crabbing from the ruck looking for a gap, but never going for one, and throwing the pass instead, by which time, the defence has advanced much more than if hed just pass off the ground.

Its great when he does open teams up, but if hes going to do it, he needs to do it if that makes sense, otherwise weir is going to be getting nailed by Leinster in the second half when Schmidt inevitably tells them to start rushing him.

Yeah he has been guilty of that, but he's prodding and probing, testing for weaknesses. He needs to recognise when its good to do though, ie, not when your right on your try line.

blooody hell! Fair play Leinster, got out of that one okay.

The young Irish 10s are having a bit of a mare this weekend!

Glasgow handling really letting them down. Need to calm down and be a bit more composed

That was crazy from Madigan. Worked nicely though

Can Messrs Matawalu and Weir please watch where they're passing? If we lose this one, that will be why.

Such a great game so much pace. And the scrums are working really well. Nigel Owens is a fantastic ref, really lets games flow whilst being fair.

Barclay is having a quietly good game - putting in a big shift.

Bodes well for Scotland with Rennie having a strong 80 last night. If only either of them were fit for the 6N!

Definitely Bsando - there was an instance a couple minutes ago: Glasgow knock on, so playing advantage to Leinster, and Doug Hall has the ball available to pick up. Owens simply says 'Hands off, advantage blue', avoiding the need to stop play and have a scrum.

Very intelligent reffing.

Surprised they didn't opt to kick for goal

That's got to be a yellow - very dangerous to charge into a ruck from the side like that

Put Pyrgos on please. Need some control and Niko is trying to hard to force things

Shoulder charge too - that was shocking

IanBru wrote:Definitely Bsando - there was an instance a couple minutes ago: Glasgow knock on, so playing advantage to Leinster, and Doug Hall has the ball available to pick up. Owens simply says 'Hands off, advantage blue', avoiding the need to stop play and have a scrum.

Very intelligent reffing.

I was questioning what that was about myself. Thought it was pretty funny. Love Owens, hes so far better than anyone else in the Rabo

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IanBru wrote:
hes so far better than anyone else in the Rabo

To be fair my dead cat is better than some of the Rabbo refs...

Hopefully Glasgow can score next, if Leinster do it'll be pretty unlikely Glasgow will win I reckon.

John Welsh getting mashed in the scrums - quite a belly on him too!

WOW!!! BOOM!!

RDW_Scotland wrote:John Welsh getting mashed in the scrums - quite a belly on him too!

I have no idea why they have decided to move him to TH and Low to LH.

Jeez Pyrgos' passes were meant to improve things!