Leinster line up Mike Ford to replace Kurt McQuilkin

[Dave Cahill]

I don't think we're quite in the 'beggars can't be choosers' department yet

Glasgow Warriors have just appointed Dave Rennie as Townsends successor, yes we are.

[Peg Leg]

Oh dear sweet baby f%~king Jesus

[LeRouxIsPHat]

I don't think we're quite in the 'beggars can't be choosers' department yet

Glasgow Warriors have just appointed Dave Rennie as Townsends successor, yes we are.

Presume you mean in terms of us not attracting him as opposed to us falling behind Glasgow? That's a stretch, the situation was totally different a year ago.

That said, great appointment for Glasgow and I wish we could have got him ourselves.

[Dexter]

I don't think we're quite in the 'beggars can't be choosers' department yet

Glasgow Warriors have just appointed Dave Rennie as Townsends successor, yes we are.

Seriously? WTF....

[goreyguy]

Leinster have fallen and fallen hard.

[simonokeeffe]

well Glasgow had something concrete to offer

were Leinster going to decide NOW that Leo is gone end of season regardless?

[goreyguy]

well Glasgow had something concrete to offer

were Leinster going to decide NOW that Leo is gone end of season regardless?

Leo Cullen won't be significantly better at the end of the season. He certainly won't be as good as Rennie, if he ever is.

[simonokeeffe]

well Glasgow had something concrete to offer

were Leinster going to decide NOW that Leo is gone end of season regardless?

Leo Cullen won't be significantly better at the end of the season. He certainly won't be as good as Rennie, if he ever is.

probably not as good as Rennie no but the Branch werent going to sack him/give him the Vern Cotter lame duck treatment in August

[goreyguy]

well Glasgow had something concrete to offer

were Leinster going to decide NOW that Leo is gone end of season regardless?

Leo Cullen won't be significantly better at the end of the season. He certainly won't be as good as Rennie, if he ever is.

probably not as good as Rennie no but the Branch werent going to sack him/give him the Vern Cotter lame duck treatment in August

[LeRouxIsPHat]

This is very similar to what I was talking about last week. Some news comes out that's totally irrelevant and the perception of last season gets worse for no reason whatsoever.

[simonokeeffe]

This is very similar to what I was talking about last week. Some news comes out that's totally irrelevant and the perception of last season gets worse for no reason whatsoever.

Plus Rennie could have been lined up by Glasgow/SRFU as far out as last March or April

[Dave Cahill]

Its where we are now, no top level coach with an intact reputation will touch us with a barge pole.

[Dave Cahill]

well Glasgow had something concrete to offer

were Leinster going to decide NOW that Leo is gone end of season regardless?

This is very similar to what I was talking about last week. Some news comes out that's totally irrelevant and the perception of last season gets worse for no reason whatsoever.

Plus Rennie could have been lined up by Glasgow/SRFU as far out as last March or April

Make up your mind would you!

[LeRouxIsPHat]

Its where we are now, no top level coach with an intact reputation will touch us with a barge pole.

I think that's a ridiculous comment to make in light of him going to Glasgow two years after we were looking for a head coach. We may well have approached him last season and been told that he wanted to see how the NZ job panned out.

[goreyguy]

This is very similar to what I was talking about last week. Some news comes out that's totally irrelevant and the perception of last season gets worse for no reason whatsoever.

you can keep claiming last season was a good season, but it wasn't. It was mediocre. Neither Culllen or Girve are good enough to be leading leinster.

[Dave Cahill]

Its where we are now, no top level coach with an intact reputation will touch us with a barge pole.

I think that's a ridiculous comment to make in light of him going to Glasgow two years after we were looking for a head coach. We may well have approached him last season and been told that he wanted to see how the NZ job panned out.

And Deans? And Matson? And Brown? And everyone else were rumoured/supposed to/were talking too?

[LeRouxIsPHat]

This is very similar to what I was talking about last week. Some news comes out that's totally irrelevant and the perception of last season gets worse for no reason whatsoever.

you can keep claiming last season was a good season, but it wasn't. It was mediocre. Neither Culllen or Girve are good enough to be leading leinster.

You seem to have forgotten that I said a while ago that I wouldn't respond to your posts.

[LeRouxIsPHat]

Its where we are now, no top level coach with an intact reputation will touch us with a barge pole.

I think that's a ridiculous comment to make in light of him going to Glasgow two years after we were looking for a head coach. We may well have approached him last season and been told that he wanted to see how the NZ job panned out.

And Deans? And Matson? And Brown? And everyone else were rumoured/supposed to/were talking too?

Were we definitely talking to Deans? The strongest rumour I saw was when I thought I saw him in Ranelagh. It sounded to me like Matson wanted to hold out for the Head Coach role at the Crusaders and that Brown didn't think he was ready to move up here and was happy where he was. None of that reflects badly on Leinster. It was a different situation a year ago and there were very few options available, in fact there's still very few.

If it was a straight shoot out between Rennie choosing Leinster or Glasgow next summer and we lost out then I think you'd have a point, but let's be fair and put things in context. Who knows, maybe it was us who rejected those guys, we simply don't know.

[Logorrhea]

Scottish team appoint a coach and somehow it manages to offer the same people another opportunity to be relentlessly negative.

This forum is broken.

[Dirk Stickler]

Its where we are now, no top level coach with an intact reputation will touch us with a barge pole.

I think we're in this position (Leo as head coach) because the decision to ditch MOC was made quite suddenly and clearly without any succession plan.

If Glasgow can get Rennie and if Munster can get Rassie then I don't think it's beyond the realms that we could get a proven coach.