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What about Varley at hooker too. I'd have him there sooner than Sherry. And I'd be very concerned with Jones' latest injury. Isn't it his 3rd serious injury in as many years? We need to be looking at other options for FB. I believe Drico said he learned absolutely nothing from Kidney at...

We haven't built any form of yet. These warm-up games need to be about building form and establishing the game plan. Mucking around with that in the Wales and Scotland games in the 6Ns and we need to make sure the team are comfortable with the game plan and the selection. We can bring in fringe...

For as simplistic a measure as it is (and not a true measure I know - there's more to a wingers job than scoring tries) let's just take a look at the try scoring stats of the 3 wingers in question in competitive games (there's a fairly even standard in the competitive games, the friendlies not...

Earls is without doubt our best option at 11 right now. He was fairly quiet there this 6 Nations but I don't think that was his fault. Poor overall team performaces make it hard for individuals, especially wingers, to look good. He had a good season last 6 Nations though iirc, and looked sharp...

Serious competition for spots there alright. But for me, biased as I am, SOB has to be first choice unless Fez plays his way into the jersey. Superb season for Leinster and a pretty decent debut 6 Nations campaign that would have been better had the team overall played well means he is the...

I didn't like the new Leinster jersey when I saw the pics on the net. But when I tried it on I actually quite liked it. It's really grown on me now.

Based on the sneak peeks from Leinster I'd say this will be closer to the truth...

You're right, Fez has played well when he has been on. But in the match-day 22 you only have space for 4 back-rows. My logic would be: 6 SOB - easy pick given the season he has had. The outstanding player in European club rugby this year and did pretty well in his first 6 Nations campaign too...

I think the 6 and 8 slots pick themselves to be honest. For as much as I like Fez he hasn't been playing and SOB is the in-form player in the Northern Hemisphere. He has to start at 6. Heaslip at 8 and then either Wally or Jenno at 7. Wally is a third ball carrier (and in supreme form right now)...

He played with Stringer for 30 mins against Wales having never really played with the guy before and most of that time Wales were in the ascedancy. Other than 2 poor kicks early on he actually played reasonably well after that. He was obviously given the game plan of kick for territory, and if...

I'm not sure this squad really means anything. Take Ferg for example. Made the 6 Nations overall squad, but the first chance Kidney got to drop him and he was gone. I can't see Kidney varying his selection much from the 6 Nations selection tbh.

Well now here's the thing. There's the team I'd want to see and the team I think we will see. I'd assume first that Flannery is not going to be available. Kearney, Ferris and Jenno look likely though. So with that in mind my preferred match day 22 would be: 1. Healy 2. Varley 3. Ross 4. DOC...

I think O'Kidneys selections really do affect the answer to this question. Take the above quote for example. People saw Sexton under-perform for a couple of games and immediately got on his back over it, when in fact the key wasn't Sexton. It was O'Leary. O'Leary is our slowest distributor of...

You're not thinking of Wepeners one by any chance at 1:14 here? Oh and that Priestland try was class too all right...

I'm looking forward to the draw now. The easiest group I reckon Leinster could draw would be Ospreys, Edinburgh and Aironi. That said I wouldn't want that pool. We want to have really competitive and enjoyable matches (and away trips). From that perspective I'd love Clermont (even though I've...

So what was everyones favourite try of this HC season? Mine would have to be Nacewa against Saracens in the RDS in January. The off-loading, Dricos line and Nacewas step were all fantastic. It's from 6:15 onwards here... So what does everyone else think?

Justin Long as Isaac Boss...

Just a brief point on the rivalry thing, I'm not sure (but haven't read the whole the thread) that the real issue is being addressed. TRF_Bullitt says there's nothing wrong in cheering on a non-Irish team if you're own province isn't playing. And he's right. I know a Munster fan who was cheering...

I wasn't just referring to the 1 extra game, but rather the previous few weeks where we played yourselves, Leicester, Toulouse and Northampton along with 2 inter-pros against Ulster that were very physical and the Aironi and Glasgow games. In fairness most of those were bigger games than...

Ok, well a couple of days later and the disappointment has worn off. The better team won on the day. Leinster did look tired, but I'm not sure if that was due to the previous few weeks hard slog or some sort of hangover (be that mental or literal) from the HC win. After watching the 2 best sides...