D4surfer wrote:Ulster beat Racing 26 22. We now should be one of top 2 seeds. Bring on next week.
Unfortunately still looking like third seeds unless Saracens mess up.
This would, all going well, mean an away SF against Racing.
Still think we would beat Racing no matter where we played them.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall who's the greatest player of them all? It is Drico your majesty.
D4surfer wrote:Ulster beat Racing 26 22. We now should be one of top 2 seeds. Bring on next week.
Unfortunately still looking like third seeds unless Saracens mess up.
This would, all going well, mean an away SF against Racing.
Still think we would beat Racing no matter where we played them.
D4surfer wrote:Ulster beat Racing 26 22. We now should be one of top 2 seeds. Bring on next week.
Unfortunately still looking like third seeds unless Saracens mess up.
This would, all going well, mean an away SF against Racing.
Still think we would beat Racing no matter where we played them.
Fabulous performance at a buzzing RDS, Toulouse came to play and shut down. Ruddock immense, VDF tackled his socks off, Healy and Furlong both super, Cronin fab and the lineout bang on. Ringrose and O'Loughlin both exceptional and Dave Kearney was far from average Dave as the Munster brigade call him. Great skill and work rate from him all game. Conan carried his socks off, Ryan his usual excellent self and Fardy too. Only downer was the injury to Luke, fingers crossed it isn't a season ender.
Best performance of the year against a serious Toulouse team.
5 Stars beckon and we will beat anyone on this form.
What a performance....immensely proud of every player on that team today, to a man they played out of their skins and for each other!!!!
Obviously minus some big names they stuck together and put us back in pole position
Thought the pack were exceptional and the catalyst of the performance...Healys carries, Cronin’s Hit on their 10, Furlong melting their 6, Ryan/Fardy drilling them all game...back row superb, Rhys ruddocks finest game in a bit, JVDF awesome along with Conan
Our backs were a small bit disjointed I felt at times but again carried hard and found gaps...Ringrose and Jordan Larnour were stand outs for me
Just so pleasing to see that team pull out that performance....Destiny in our own hands now
D4surfer wrote:Ulster beat Racing 26 22. We now should be one of top 2 seeds. Bring on next week.
Unfortunately still looking like third seeds unless Saracens mess up.
This would, all going well, mean an away SF against Racing.
Still think we would beat Racing no matter where we played them.
We're on 20 points and have to go to the Ricoh. Racing are on 21 points and host Scarlets in Paris. Here's hoping we get the full five points and Scarlets do us a favour. They're currently rediscovering their mojo by giving Leicester a thrashing.
Brilliant stuff altogether. This team are a joy. Schooled the form team in Europe - in fact made them look decidedly average.
No other team, not one, could achieve what we did today, shorn of so many front liners.
Leinster missing. Jack Mcgrath. Toner. Leavy. O'Brien. Sexton. Henshaw. Lowe. Tomane. McFadden. Rob Kearney through injury. 10 freaking international class players. I know not all are first teamers, but Christ on cracker that is nearly a top drawer team in of itself
Blueberry wrote:Fabulous performance at a buzzing RDS, Toulouse came to play and shut down. Ruddock immense, VDF tackled his socks off, Healy and Furlong both super, Cronin fab and the lineout bang on. Ringrose and O'Loughlin both exceptional and Dave Kearney was far from average Dave as the Munster brigade call him. Great skill and work rate from him all game. Conan carried his socks off, Ryan his usual excellent self and Fardy too. Only downer was the injury to Luke, fingers crossed it isn't a season ender.
Best performance of the year against a serious Toulouse team.
5 Stars beckon and we will beat anyone on this form.
We really shouldn't need to even address this, otherwise we'd be nicknaming half the Munster squad "average".
tingman wrote:Brilliant stuff altogether. This team are a joy. Schooled the form team in Europe - in fact made them look decidedly average.
No other team, not one, could achieve what we did today, shorn of so many front liners.
The form team in France would be more accurate.
Leinster are still the form team in Europe if we were to judge by league performance only given that the Pro14 teams are likely to dominate the QF qualifying positions.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall who's the greatest player of them all? It is Drico your majesty.
Really liked how Ross Byrne attacked with ball in hand today. Impressive that he has improved this part of his game this season. We needed him to do that today, and he stood up. I'm sure Felipe has a hand in this too.
ROL was great again too. He's turning into a very, very valuable player for us.
How good was Porter when he came on? 11 tackles in 20mins and a threat at every ruck. My friend was fuming that Plimber made all them changes together when he did(JGP aside), we should've waited to get the ball bak. The subs proved him wrong in the end, but it was touch n' go for a bit. You can bring on Porter whenever you like though. Granted their scrum was fairly dimished after we thoroughly kicked the cr@p out of them in the first 60 so it's harder to rate his impact there.
Big shout out to Leo the Lion who kicked the cr@p out of a Toulouse fan in front of the North stand midway thru the first half.
Ruddock's tackle stats consistently too low for me to be taken seriously as a Six Nations blindside..... Ruddock's defensive stats don't stack up. - All Blacks Nil, Jan 15th, 2014
England A 8 - 14 Ireland A, 25th Jan 2014 Ruddock(c) 19/2 Tackles
The Academy delivered today, in spades. What a performance by the youngsters, who will get such a boost in confidence from having humbled the in-form French aristocrats.
One of our best performances in recent times.
Blueberry wrote:Fabulous performance at a buzzing RDS, Toulouse came to play and shut down. Ruddock immense, VDF tackled his socks off, Healy and Furlong both super, Cronin fab and the lineout bang on. Ringrose and O'Loughlin both exceptional and Dave Kearney was far from average Dave as the Munster brigade call him. Great skill and work rate from him all game. Conan carried his socks off, Ryan his usual excellent self and Fardy too. Only downer was the injury to Luke, fingers crossed it isn't a season ender.
Best performance of the year against a serious Toulouse team.
5 Stars beckon and we will beat anyone on this form.
We really shouldn't need to even address this, otherwise we'd be nicknaming half the Munster squad "average".
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RoboProp wrote:Leinster missing. Jack Mcgrath. Toner. Leavy. O'Brien. Sexton. Henshaw. Lowe. Tomane. McFadden. Rob Kearney through injury. 10 freaking international class players. I know not all are first teamers, but Christ on cracker that is nearly a top drawer team in of itself
Understand what you mean but tomane isn't anywhere near international standard. The guy is well off what is required from the level on display today. Imo I don't think he's got the fitness or the attitude to get to that level. Think this could be a dud signing. Shame as the guy was very good about 4/5 years ago. Don't see how he's any better than the likes or adam, dave k, rol or even conor obrien.
Hearing 6-8 weeks for McGrath, medial ligament strain.
Ruddock's tackle stats consistently too low for me to be taken seriously as a Six Nations blindside..... Ruddock's defensive stats don't stack up. - All Blacks Nil, Jan 15th, 2014
England A 8 - 14 Ireland A, 25th Jan 2014 Ruddock(c) 19/2 Tackles
RoboProp wrote:Leinster missing. Jack Mcgrath. Toner. Leavy. O'Brien. Sexton. Henshaw. Lowe. Tomane. McFadden. Rob Kearney through injury. 10 freaking international class players. I know not all are first teamers, but Christ on cracker that is nearly a top drawer team in of itself
Understand what you mean but tomane isn't anywhere near international standard. The guy is well off what is required from the level on display today. Imo I don't think he's got the fitness or the attitude to get to that level. Think this could be a dud signing. Shame as the guy was very good about 4/5 years ago. Don't see how he's any better than the likes or adam, dave k, rol or even conor obrien.
You may be proven right but the guy didn't get capped for Aus and then get a big contract a Montpellier for no reason. He needs to be given time,, there were plenty of doubters on here with JGP but we all know how good he's turned out to be.
