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<blockquote data-quote="Groundhog" data-source="post: 721103" data-attributes="member: 50079"><p>I'll say this. A loose kicking game and allowing Toulon to play the game on their own terms (offloading out of the tackle, keeping the ball alive and creating broken field, which really hurt them vs Bath) will be Leinster's death. They need to extremely agressive defensively, contest Toulon's rucks to slow their game down and work an early lead. If Toulon have a nine point lead at half time, they're very hard to come back at given the class they can bring off the bench. They usually use that buffer to allow themselves to play rugby and are liable to turn the screw.</p><p>They're far from bulletproof and certainly beatable, but it would take a level of performance that Leinster haven't shown to my memory this season, certainly not in Europe anyway. They have the talent on paper, but a lack of ball carrying ballast in the tight, poor game management, halfbacks that blow hot and cold as well as playing away from Leinster's traditional strengths are causing this monumental underperformance. I can't lay the blame at MO'Cs door exlusively as there's a real lack of on field leadership when the chips are down, and he's spent much of his time missing a few key men, but there's no excuse for an ineffective gameplan.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Groundhog, post: 721103, member: 50079"] I'll say this. A loose kicking game and allowing Toulon to play the game on their own terms (offloading out of the tackle, keeping the ball alive and creating broken field, which really hurt them vs Bath) will be Leinster's death. They need to extremely agressive defensively, contest Toulon's rucks to slow their game down and work an early lead. If Toulon have a nine point lead at half time, they're very hard to come back at given the class they can bring off the bench. They usually use that buffer to allow themselves to play rugby and are liable to turn the screw. They're far from bulletproof and certainly beatable, but it would take a level of performance that Leinster haven't shown to my memory this season, certainly not in Europe anyway. They have the talent on paper, but a lack of ball carrying ballast in the tight, poor game management, halfbacks that blow hot and cold as well as playing away from Leinster's traditional strengths are causing this monumental underperformance. I can't lay the blame at MO'Cs door exlusively as there's a real lack of on field leadership when the chips are down, and he's spent much of his time missing a few key men, but there's no excuse for an ineffective gameplan. [/QUOTE]
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