Leinster Friday 11th October

[Tichtheid]

Nah, Whitehouse bottled it, telling us to use it off a dominant scrum, and giving a very long explanation as to why he was looking to penalise Schoey, then ignoring the Leinster maul infringements

[gowrie]

Surely got to trust your backs against 13 men. We ran down the sin bin clock for them.

We did though, we lost the ball running a backs move in their 22 and then didn't see it for the rest of the half. Problem was the stupid penalties, the offside on halfway when they were just going side to side was the worst

[The Party Line]

That was just brainless! They had 2 back in the bin and we kept it in the forwards. Who's the captain? Where's the clear thinking under pressure!

[Friday Knight Lights]

Ah we've lost.

[TheSmidge]

We've absolutely chucked this. 7-5 up playing 13 men for 7 minutes and we're now 26-7 down.

[Tichtheid]

Not a lot of plus points from that, you have to take the ref out of it and we didn’t do that.

We are several millions and several years behind Leinster, that much is obvious

[gunner_graham]

Poor management out there. Leinster are a stubborn side to break down, but everytime we got a 5m lineout it was thrown to the front. Far too easy to defend.
Once the ref decideded we were no longer dominant in the scrum that was it.
Crosbie looking decent, Hoyland ok but that was about it. And Shiel off the bench.

[Pitfitter446]

Not good for the blood pressure playing that way, ball should have been wide to Merwe a couple of times, played in circles, didn't take advantage when we should have, bad night all round, won’t mention Ben.

[Pitfitter446]

Deleted, double post.

[Pitfitter446]

Oh, and we switched the commentary off after 50 minutes, utter pish coming forth from their too, says herself.

[liveinhope]

Away from the disappointment of a pretty awful performance what stood out for me was a quite awesome performance by Luke Crosbie.This lad is every bit as good and probably better than Bradbury and Ritchie (and streets ahead of Barclay and Wilson) in my view.I trust he gets his fair share of games after the RWC lads are back.

[Tichtheid]

Away from the disappointment of a pretty awful performance what stood out for me was a quite awesome performance by Luke Crosbie.This lad is every bit as good and probably better than Bradbury and Ritchie (and streets ahead of Barclay and Wilson) in my view.I trust he gets his fair share of games after the RWC lads are back.

I agree on Crosbie, Haining was useful too, pass marks for the scrummaging for the pack, Shiel looked lively, after that...

We got gubbed

one caveat, not sure Crosbie is better than Ritchie and Bradbury but that trio is going to make a heck of a back row for us in the coming years

[Friday Knight Lights]

Thought Crosbie and Haining were good and thought Hoyland was very good.

But a gubbing I didn't see coming.

Leinster are just so good, doesn't matter whose playing they're always dominant in contact. Super impressive, it's what I want Edinburgh to be.

[The Chiel]

Enjoyed that for 30 -35 minutes, but Leinster simply too strong and when Whitehouse lost his nerve ( great comment on the Glasgow forum about him finding a horses head in his dressing room at half time ) they rolled over us.

Well done the scrum. Lineout was a different matter though. Agree with the comments about Crosbie and Haining, and Miller and Shiel ( really should give him a start ) showed up fairly well when he came on. Also as said elsewhere Hoyland needs to kick on occasion otherwise they just line up for him.

[Tichtheid]

Thought Crosbie and Haining were good and thought Hoyland was very good.

But a gubbing I didn't see coming.

Leinster are just so good, doesn't matter whose playing they're always dominant in contact. Super impressive, it's what I want Edinburgh to be.

At the risk of blowing my own trumpet, I called Cullen making a good head coach when he was a player, he is just so knowledgeable and influential.

When your budget allows for someone like Lancaster to be brought in as an assistant your club is doing something right, they are so well organised it's not funny, blue stormtroopers who all know their roles and all execute those roles almost perfectly, no matter who wears the jersey.

They are a hell of a side.