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<blockquote data-quote="Groundhog" data-source="post: 1036318" data-attributes="member: 50079"><p>Yeah I wouldn't hype Ulsters pack at all. Objectively worse than Munster and Leinsters at least. They produce nice backs, but have had to make a lot of value signings in their pack. They're all decent players, but famously underpowered and blunt without Coetzee, who they will really struggle to emulate next season unless Nakarawa can step into his shoes in a big way which he hasn't looked like doing based in his Glasgow form. They were Connachtesque v Leicester completely underperforming in a winnable game.</p><p></p><p>RE the Pro 14 it's definitely a very poor competition right now outside of the Irish teams, because we can pretty comfortably hockey most teams with our second strings. Teams like Glasgow, Scarlets and Edinburgh have all fallen off really disappointingly this year. That said do Leinsters guys really lack top level competition? Huge number of their team are regular internationals. I think they just had a big off day and struggle with teams like La Rochelle and Sarries that have extremely dominant carriers across the park and great continuity. While the Saffers will be a welcome addition with how many internationals they lose Leinster will always heavily manage players and pick and choose games and probably be pretty successful doing it tbh. You won't get any argument from me that the Pro 14 was a really poor product this year and our teams **** the bed in Europe a bit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Groundhog, post: 1036318, member: 50079"] Yeah I wouldn't hype Ulsters pack at all. Objectively worse than Munster and Leinsters at least. They produce nice backs, but have had to make a lot of value signings in their pack. They're all decent players, but famously underpowered and blunt without Coetzee, who they will really struggle to emulate next season unless Nakarawa can step into his shoes in a big way which he hasn't looked like doing based in his Glasgow form. They were Connachtesque v Leicester completely underperforming in a winnable game. RE the Pro 14 it's definitely a very poor competition right now outside of the Irish teams, because we can pretty comfortably hockey most teams with our second strings. Teams like Glasgow, Scarlets and Edinburgh have all fallen off really disappointingly this year. That said do Leinsters guys really lack top level competition? Huge number of their team are regular internationals. I think they just had a big off day and struggle with teams like La Rochelle and Sarries that have extremely dominant carriers across the park and great continuity. While the Saffers will be a welcome addition with how many internationals they lose Leinster will always heavily manage players and pick and choose games and probably be pretty successful doing it tbh. You won't get any argument from me that the Pro 14 was a really poor product this year and our teams **** the bed in Europe a bit. [/QUOTE]
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