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@Paul Ennis: farrell is a fantastic of putting players in with good experienced players around him. He was forcing stuff and it didn’t come off. Luke doesn’t help and 2 centres outside who 1 of them isn’t a centre and the other is just breaking through didn’t help either. Still he didn’t do himself any favours.

@chris mcdonnell: Ross Byrne has played outside Luke for 4 or 5 years against better teams than the Ospreys and we won better than last night. Poor performances are never on one player. I felt that the pack did not enforce themselves and made it very difficult for both half backs. The 6 for Ospreys (Harry Beavin I think?) had the game of his life and had me wondering why he isn’t in the squad for next week. He made life very difficult for us… and I hate referee bashing, but both of the Maul tries were secured on the back of not straight lineouts that the referee missed (we competed for both and Tipuric caught both of them on his outside shoulder). Those 2 tries kept the O’s in it. If the game wasn’t so tight, heads would have dropped and Leinster would have pulled away.

@John Morris: we lost one of the most exciting 9′s in the country because he couldn’t get game time ahead of mcgrath but them again it took farrell’s intervention to get JGP a game so nothing new there

@JamesK: Yeah his body comp has totally changed in a few months. Looks really like a prop now. Seemed to be moving dynamically enough like he did at 20s too.

@Ray Ridge: And not successful enough with your bets.

@Ray Ridge: Who

@Ray Ridge: O brien has more talent in his right finger compaired to HD

@Ray Ridge: nah that accolade goes to Harry Byrne, followed by Sam prendergast, although in fairness, Crawley gets bronze

@Cian Halley: frawley, typo.

@Cian Halley: Sam is real deal

@Ray Ridge: Frawley’s skill set has taken a pounding since he ‘bulked’ up to his height. He was promising as a 21yr old than of late. Sam P is taller again and he faces a similar possibility if he goes that way in the gym. As for today, ‘off day’ counts for little, and Leinster would lost that game without their NIQs.

@John Morris: Another bewildering poor assessment and take on things after Frawley has one bad game. For context, Jack Crowley has stank the place out in 80% of the games he’s played this season but you don’t see similar assessments. Funny how that works. Give Frawley a break FFS.

@John Morris: if my sister was a boy she be my brother then won ffs enjoy it

@Seanie: they

@Ray Ridge: quiet, bozo

@Carmine Lorenzo: Carmine, how have you not muted him yet? I couldn’t survive if I was exposed to that type of negativity on a daily basis.

@Carmine Lorenzo: going by the comments on here, it is mostly blue supporters giving out about him

@John Morris: Shock – Leinster had 2 players in their team today whobhelp them win a tricky game away from home!! They also would have lost it without McCarthy and Boyle but you didn’t feel that was relevant to mention? So because Sam P is tall, he faces the possibility of bulking up too much?? I think that is the most desperate attempt yet I have heard to try to talk sown Sam P. And finally, Frawley was never a skinny kid. It was one ofnthe things going for him when he was younger. But every time and opportunity came up for him, he picked up an injury. There was even one in a warm up for a European game. He was riddled with bad luck. And then, coming to the end of Sexton’s career, he just could get in front of the 2 Byrnes. Now Sam is there. His confidence is the issue, not his bulk.

@John Morris: Would have lost that game without their IQs too. What a silly comment

@PJ Smith: I disagree, this is an example of a ‘tricky’ fixture which Leinster have lost in the past. The winning try was a combo of RG and Slimani, and Leinster did not look like scoring again. Hard fact- they were surviving at the end and not pounding the line for a BP.

@Paul Ennis: desperate attempt to knock Sam P? Read my post again, it was clearly a concern for a possibility in Sam’s further (physical) development, not a put down. Loads of comments out there on his need to bulk up- I was just pointing out, by example, a possible outcome of that route. How can that be pathetic? I would hate to see his skills lost as a result.

@John Morris: Faux concern. I will be the first to admit if I have read a comment in the wrong context, but there is too much of this type of BS going on. Reminds me of Eddie Jones’ “concern” for Johnny Sexton’s welfare in the lead up to the 2022 6N match at Twickenham. You are in exhalted company.

@Teddy O neill: Glasgow are 15 points behind with a game in hand, playing dragons on Sunday’s can assume top marks.

We’ve been stung before not having home advantage come May when fighting on both fronts, so these games are key pre SA

@JamesK: A lot of those guys tonight have been down to SA before. Soroka, Deeny, Penny, Gus McCarthy, Tom Clarkson, Michael Milne have all been on SA tours. Plus, you have Snyman and Barritt available hopefully and Tadhg Furlong. And the SA tour does not coincide with Europe this season so the coaching team won’t have to split up like last year and the year before to train two groups. That is an advantage. And we’re at home next week. So I’ve reasons to be options about the next three rounds.

@Teddy O neill: But can we afford 3

@chris mcdonnell: I’m glad someone mentioned Harri Deaves. He was excellent, a real menace at the break down. Justin Tipuric had a great game as well. Wales could do a lot worse than drag him out of international retirement to finish off the six nations.

@peter lynch: Thank you. As I said, Deaves was head and shoulders the best player on the pitch.

@chris mcdonnell: It looked to me like Frawls has taken a step backwards. In the first half he was pushing things too much. He has getting stuck at the bottom of rucks, forcing kicks that were not on (one of them high risk in his own 22). Looking for the killer pass that is just outside his range. It is almost as if he is trying to prove that he can compete with Sam. Unfortunately he cannot. In the second half, he stopped trying. Taking the ball standing still. Getting caught behind the mainline. But he still has a huge role to play for Leinster and Ireland. He just needs to settle down, concentrate on his own strengths (one of which is his versatility) and find his niche. I defo don’t think Ross starts ahead of him in the next game, but he wasn’t awful. Ospreys were just really good

@jajosullivan@aol.com: 3 out of 18 for a side that has an 18 out of 18 record versus most teams is as bogey as you get!! LOL. However, they did have the hex over us 15 years ago. Especially in the finals (did they beat us 3 in a row?) I understand the point Carmine is trying to make. You don’t agree, and that’s ok. I understand that too.