LEINSTER WILL BE without Ryan Baird “for a few weeks” while James Lowe is also unavailable for selection for this weekend’s URC clash away to Emirates Lions.
The pair of Ireland internationals were both forced off in Friday’s 55-24 Champions Cup quarter-final defeat of Leicester Tigers.
Baird left the action with just 24 minutes played owing to a shoulder injury, while Lowe limped off in the second half with a calf issue.
The Kiwi-born wing will be further assessed this week, according to a Leinster statement:
📰 | #LeinsterRugby head coach Leo Cullen has issued an injury update, ahead of the upcoming trip to South Africa
— Leinster Rugby (@leinsterrugby) April 10, 2023
See the injury update here 👉 https://t.co/XxLhSAy47Y#FromTheGroundUp pic.twitter.com/uXSPRPaA2h
Robbie Henshaw was not named in Leo Cullen’s update, the centre appearing to suffer an injury last Friday, but the head coach allayed concerns post-match.
“Robbie was okay,” Cullen said. “He was just feeling a bit of tightness at half-time, so he was okay in terms of making the change.”
Sweating on the fitness of several players, Leinster will be eyeing their Champions Cup semi-final showdown against Toulouse at the Aviva Stadium on 29 April.
But first, they play the Lions and Bulls in South Africa.
Less of the chat about the attendance and more about the great game that evolved in the most awful conditions. Hats off to the players. Tremendous commitment shown.
The pubs and hotels in Dublin must have been hoping for a Limerick win today. 35 or 40 thousand Limerick fans would have made a weekend of it in the capital for the final. The same doesn’t apply to KK as they are there nearly every year.
If 30-40k Kilkenny fans went to a game that would be about 50% of the population. So probably a 25-30% of the population is not half bad turn out!
Show me the stats to back that up or are you just another anti Kk griper?
I’m not anti KK in any way. If u read my contributions on other threads relating to today’s match u would see that. It’s just perfectly understandable … What’s rare is wonderful – in recent decades Limerick average one all Ireland appearance every 8 or 9 years. For Kilkenny it’s almost as common as Christmas.
Not even 50,000 at today’s game!!!
Wayne – u are aware that finals always attract larger attendances than finals?! People living abroad, those struggling financially etc will come for finals where it wouldn’t be realistic (or affordable) to come for semi also. Strange comment …
* finals always attract higher attendance than semis
Wow really thanks for that nugget of wisdom! 190,000 population between today’s 3 counties, and then neutrals! I was there today and I’m a Dub. Attendances down so far this summer by 50-60 thousand across all games.
GAA should be looking at free kids tickets for weaker hurling countys for days like today. Or hold today’s game in Semple instead reducing costs for fans
U were there today, congrats … it probably cost u approx €35 between ticket and getting bus/luas. Treble that amount at least, for someone travelling from Limerick or a few hundred €€ if the wife and kids were with u … Get real Wayne !
Pay attention and read what I suggested 42,000 today, would Semple not have been a better location?
Semi finals and finals always take place in Croke Park. As a Dub u should know that – Teams and their fans know that … If today’s game had been in Thurles the attendance would maybe have been bigger .. But only marginally.
& the costs to the fans attending would have been??? Lower :)
Send an email/write a letter to Peter McKenna or Sean O Neill and ask them to put the hurling semi final(s) on in Thurles and let me know how that works out for u ….
Limerick (City & County) alone has a population of over 160k, so the 3 counties together would have a lot more than 190k. Saying that I was a little disappointed with today’s attendance, 16k down on last year’s.