“Everyone loves to hate Leinster”

Fair play to his agent. Had the desired effect by the looks of it. He definitely deserved more game time at 10 over the 6N. However have to feel for Prendergast. He’s been the subject of toxic online commentary. This won’t help.

O’Mahony for Baird is just mad. Baird made a huge difference to the Lineout success last week. Back to the future again.

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I’m full open to correction. Had taken it from Irish Times.

Much made of Munster’s injury “crisis”. Leinster with Dan Sheehan, Rob Russell, Will Connors, Tadhg Furlong, Ciarán Frawley, Hugo Keenan, James Lowe, Liam Turner,Thomas Clarkson, Jack Conan and Max Deegan all unavailable. Barrett and Snyman rested. Still a decent 23 take on Munster.

Adding to Leinster’s already impressive backrow stocks?

Ken O’Flynn really cares about being a local representative #tonightvmtv

Strange match overall. Leinster looked like they were suffering from last weekend’s efforts and 6 day turnaround. Disappointingly, Frawley didn’t grab his opportunity. Ngatai had huge impact off bench. Murphy and Prendergast had nice cameos too.

I like the look of the backrow. Also happy that Nienaber is having an influence on trying something different. Furlong the main obvious absentee. No surprise that Harry Byrne gets the nod at 10 - he has to grab the opportunity now. Time to make himself first choice.

Disappointed but not surprised that Frawley is not given the start at 10. Leinster rotating a lot more heavily than I expected. Only Henshaw retained from last week’s XV. Hope the bench is fully utilized this week. Culhane not used until 80th minute last week. Why bother with 6:2 and do that?