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<blockquote data-quote="Leinster Fan" data-source="post: 979155" data-attributes="member: 76349">I just like giving out about Cummiskey, which you&#039;ve done more than your share of in the past if we&#039;re being fair here.Don&#039;t know what the deal is with Frawley, he&#039;s a talented player but Cullen seemed to lose faith a bit last season with Reid preferred at 10 (where he&#039;d rarely played for us before that). Obviously you never really know what&#039;s significant to a player and what isn&#039;t but it seem to take him a while to get over the intercept in Thomond Park last year. The constant injuries haven&#039;t helped much either, he&#039;s never been able to get a consistent run on Pro14 games without picking up a knock. He plays 3 positions but they&#039;re all pretty full, Harry Byrne is definitely a better prospect at 10, at 12 despite two centres at the world cup even Conor O&#039;Brien has barely been able to get a game so it&#039;s hard to see where Frawley fits in, and at fullback Keenan and Jimmy O&#039;Brien have both been really good whenever they&#039;ve played. We&#039;ll see how things go but things aren&#039;t looking brilliant for him right now.On the other this season could barely have gone better for Byrne jr. I know it&#039;s just Cummiskey being Cummiskey but it is baffling how a professional rugby journalist (at the &#039;better&#039; paper) could suggest a player moving from third choice behind a brittle 34 year old to fourth choice somewhere else (who also have a bunch of quality young players in his position). Not to mention the whole thing of moving halfway through a season (random change of environment isn&#039;t a good thing), plus I&#039;m guessing he&#039;s halway through some course in UCD that he&#039;s unlikely to want to stop because his team&#039;s biggest rivals need a hand.I know it&#039;s just a bad journalist doing bad journalism but it is fun to point out all the problems with it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Leinster Fan, post: 979155, member: 76349"] I just like giving out about Cummiskey, which you've done more than your share of in the past if we're being fair here. Don't know what the deal is with Frawley, he's a talented player but Cullen seemed to lose faith a bit last season with Reid preferred at 10 (where he'd rarely played for us before that). Obviously you never really know what's significant to a player and what isn't but it seem to take him a while to get over the intercept in Thomond Park last year. The constant injuries haven't helped much either, he's never been able to get a consistent run on Pro14 games without picking up a knock. He plays 3 positions but they're all pretty full, Harry Byrne is definitely a better prospect at 10, at 12 despite two centres at the world cup even Conor O'Brien has barely been able to get a game so it's hard to see where Frawley fits in, and at fullback Keenan and Jimmy O'Brien have both been really good whenever they've played. We'll see how things go but things aren't looking brilliant for him right now. On the other this season could barely have gone better for Byrne jr. I know it's just Cummiskey being Cummiskey but it is baffling how a professional rugby journalist (at the 'better' paper) could suggest a player moving from third choice behind a brittle 34 year old to fourth choice somewhere else (who also have a bunch of quality young players in his position). Not to mention the whole thing of moving halfway through a season (random change of environment isn't a good thing), plus I'm guessing he's halway through some course in UCD that he's unlikely to want to stop because his team's biggest rivals need a hand. I know it's just a bad journalist doing bad journalism but it is fun to point out all the problems with it. [/QUOTE]

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