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Jesus Christ
I know hopefully you see it some timeJesus Christ
Yep. Clear disregard for attack, it'd got worse as the year got on. Bleyendaal has a big job on his hands.Hard to fathom. Leinster have gone from being the most accurate side in European rugby to a team that can't string coherent phases together at all. Some of the players definitely deserve to be criticised for that but the coaching setup has to take the fall.
Just seen highlights and being honest Blenyendaal won't change much. He is a good coach but Nienaber is the head coach. His style will ring through more as time goes through. Forwards rugby, big men etc and will it work. I don't know as Leinster don't have huge physical forwards.
Leinster have discarded their attack in favour of defence a bit.
This leads to Leinster issue where they have players but not a style to suit that.
Take a Schmidt. He was military style too but had an attacking structure built in his like the Sexton loop.
Nienaber is South African style of bully teams. It is hard to transition that with the usual Leinster flair in attack due to physical demands
While they are all fair comments. I'm basing it on few things.Bleyendaal has been brought in from one of the most attacking SR sides, there's plenty of better coaches to bring in if you want to bully teams. Snyman and JB don't exactly scream signings made with an intention to bludgeon teams into submission either, both play ball.
Neinaber hasn't been here a full season yet, his primary focus this year was the defence and in a season where the attack has been transitioning from being led by Sexton to one led by Keenan and Ringrose (for now) it never really fired. Next season was always the season that Neinaber will be judged on, I'd be amazed if he was happy to disregard the attack.
And came third in the Celtic league and we're thrashed in the QF of the Heineken Cup. We were **** until 2008 really.Yes when I think of Leinster of 20 years ago I certainly think of our rampaging pack and not our backline with BOD, D'arcy, Contepomi, Hickie et al.
In any sport, people rarely remember runners up.Leinster is hard to call if this crop has massively failed or not. In 1 sense 1 European Cup in 8 years considering the resources is terrible. But then record getting to finals is superb. Most other clubs crave that. The URC is a poor return too but that van be attributed to poor approach at times
Yeah Ross kind of retreated into himself too as the game wore on which wasn't a good look. Has Barrett any talent as a 10!Yep. Clear disregard for attack, it'd got worse as the year got on. Bleyendaal has a big job on his hands.
Can't stand by RB or Larmour anymore. Look so out of their depth when it gets tough.
Lancasters tenure I would deem as a small failure (Or more accurately a huge success for the first half and then consistent shortcomings). I won't judge Neinaber on this season at all, he came in in late November like.Leinster is hard to call if this crop has massively failed or not. In 1 sense 1 European Cup in 8 years considering the resources is terrible. But then record getting to finals is superb. Most other clubs crave that. The URC is a poor return too but that van be attributed to poor approach at times