🏉 Welsh mess
🏉 Rhys Ruddock
🏉 Dragons fronting up
🏉 Harry Byrne
🏉 G**** S***
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS
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FULL TIME TAKES
Greg Kelly
Not a great performance. Probably the worst or amongst the worst of the season. Quite disjointed and not as controlled as Leinster teams usually are.
Performance aside its yet another routine win that was never really in doubt. The URC is great for blooding players but week by week it becomes worse for challenging them.
Andrew Bailey
First up you have to play a referee who’s agenda from the start is to favour the home team. But you can’t do that with poor lineouts , Ruck protection snd an awful kicking game. A big win but worst performance of the season. Why not trust the outside backs more ??
MASTODON
RichardMifsud Had a bit of everything that one. Always love watching the young kids getting a run out. Second 40 saw a dip in intensity that let Dragons back into the game and gave the boys good practice on D. A bit of a flourish at the end with two well worked tries. Invaluable experience for the kids and Rhys a worthy POTM although Lukey pushed for that too Liam Turner had a good outing and it was great to see Jason J and Will on the pitch
John Shine I’m jumping aboard the Jack Boyle hype train!!! In all seriousness it was a nice little 20 mins for him. Held up his end of the scrum. Couple of good carries and a great jackal turnover. Bigger tests await but he’s an exciting prospect.
FRONT FIVE ARTICLES
- Welsh rugby’s almighty mess, the immoral treatment of players and the uncomfortable truths – Wales Online [Steffan Thomas]
- Blow for Ireland & Munster as full extent of Tadhg Beirne injury revealed | SportsJOE.ie [Jason Hennessy]
- Gavin Coombes stars as nine-try Munster rout Ospreys at Thomond (irishexaminer.com) [John Fallon]
- URC: Connacht score nine tries in comfortable victory over Zebre – The Irish Times [Linley MacKenzie]
- Glasgow v Ulster: bench impact helps Warriors extend unbeaten run (theoffsideline.com) [David Barnes]
URC ROUND 14 WRAP
ROUND 14
GLA 17-11 ULS
MUN 58-3 OSP
LIO 7-29 SHA
ZEB 37-57 CON
BUL 19-23 STO
CAR 30-13 BEN
SCA 42-14 EDI
LEI 43-14 DRA
REARRANGED MATCHES
ROUND 6
SHA V ULS
LIO V GLA
ROUND 15
MAR 3
GLA V ZEB
MUN V SCA
MAR 4
STO V SHA
BUL V LIO
EDI V LEI
OSP V BEN
DRA V CON
CAR V ULS
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