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Teams for tomorrow. Leinster 15. Rob Kearney 14. Zane Kirchner 13. Luke Fitzgerald 12. Noel Reid 11. Dave Kearney 10. Jimmy Gopperth 9. Isaac Boss 1. Michael Bent 2. Aaron Dundon 3. Tahdg Furlong 4. Devin Toner 5. Kane Douglas 6. Kevin McLaughlin 7. Shane Jennings 8. Jamie Heaslip CAPTAIN...

On the one hand, people tend to get uncomfortable with the idea of youngsters lifting weights, when actually there is no evidence of adverse effects in adolescents and teens performing controlled strength and conditioning training (child gymnasts, for example, are some of the fittest teens...

Teams are up. Leinster 15. Rob Kearney 14. Zane Kirchner 13. Luke Fitzgerald 12. Ian Madigan 11. Darragh Fanning 10. Jimmy Gopperth 9. Isaac Boss 1. Jack McGrath 2. Sean Cronin 3. Mike Ross 4. Devin Toner 5. Kane Douglas 6. Rhys Ruddock 7. Dominic Ryan 8. Jamie Heaslip CAPTAIN 16. Bryan...

Were you watching a different match to the rest of us? That performance was absolutely awful. We showed no creativity in attack, basic skills like passing were completely lacking (how many times did we lose possession by dropped balls?), discipline was crap and it cost us in penalties, and our...

What an absolute howler. At no point did we look in any way deserving of the win. O'Connor out, he's running the team into the ground.

Oh my god. Worst thing is you could see it coming, the passing is just awful.

G'wan Mads. Why did we have Gopperth take the last penalty? Could've used those three points.

Absolutely maddening. Simple stuff done horribly wrong, giving away a stupid amount of penalties and getting demolished at the scrum. 6-6 is very flattering right now.

Gopperth at 10 and D'Arcy at 13. Not surprising but not exactly helping my nerves. Aside from that I reckon we look well, but those are pretty key positions to not be sure if we can rely on them. Don't need that uncertainty in a European match.

I'm with you on that one. Reid has not been anything spectacular so far but he's solid and I reckon he's got buckets of potential if he could get more game time. Why MOC continues to f**k us by having Gopperth on the pitch is beyond me. I'll admit to being more than a little concerned that we...

From that GIF if looks far from a typical roll either. Faletau looks to be at the side of the ruck, and rolls JDV back onto his own leg rather than off the to the side which would be the norm. Looks to me like one of those unfortunate instances where a few things go wrong at once. Seriously...

Never. He was both loyal and delicious.

I have to say, now that it's confirmed I find I'm really looking forward to this despite the missing starters for both sides. Bit of extra excitement to go along with 6 Nations season, and the North-South clash is never not going to be a draw.

Tough call. I'm a fan of Wales, every time we play them it's a battle. Argentina too. After that, I have a lot of time for any tier 2 sides who are playing good rugby. The vast majority of casual rugby fans have no more than a vague awareness of non-tier 1 sides (and sometimes less!), but the...

Thoughts on tonight's game? For me it's mixed feelings. A win over Ospreys is no small thing and it narrows the gap to the top spot to within a few points. That said, there's still a ton to work on. Leinster need to stop conceding so many penalties and giving letting teams put points on us. Also...

I wouldn't say we need to be rid of it altogether. There have been issues highlighted for sure, but nothing in my mind that couldn't be addressed. Just as there has been tinkering with scrum rules over the past while, I've no doubt that TMO use could be optimised eventually with the right...

It would be great fun to watch. I often think how it would be cool to see the winning clubs from each hemisphere's competitions facing off. Have to agree with what everyone has said though; the season times and lengths (not to mention distance) would make it too impractical. Even if it were to...

That was seriously hard to watch. Some all 'round poor performances with a few exceptions (Fanning did well and Mick McGrath is a workhorse) but sweet and sour Jesus we need rid of Gopperth. The man has been a problem all season and after that game it seems that the most consistent thing about...

Made my weekend. And it's nonsense to think that we couldn't keepon form and continue beating these sides, unless you have that kind of mental block about it.

Seems like a lot of things which should be very basic are missing from this. I've about 180'd on this game when not an hour ago I was hyped to high heaven for it.