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LEINSTER SCORED FIVE tries to seal a bonus-point victory over the Bristol Bears in their opening Champions Cup game.
Leo Cullen’s side were reduced to 13 players at one point due to yellow cards, but overcame a scrappy encounter to grab tries through Jordan Larmour, Josh van der Flier and two from Sam Prendergast. Their new All Blacks signing Jordie Barrett made his first appearance off the bench and marked his introduction with a try in the second half.
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Scrappy first half. Though defence was very good. Bench made a big difference. Barrett is a very serious operator. Prendergast has a very good game too
Ross Byrne comes on. Misses touch from his kick and they score from it. He’s not good enough for that team.
@John Fagan: ‘ the simple truth is, not all of us become the men we once hoped we might be’
@John Fagan: He’s decent but not what you need to win the European cup. Prendergast is better already but Byrne is handy enough for most URC games. Charlie Tector is a good fly half too even though he has only had a couple of run outs at centre. JVDF was excellent today.
@John Moore: don’t worry ask the irfu to buy a 10 be grand
@Pork Hunt: keep chawing on the lemon fella.
I strongly object to buying in star players to buy a cup. Leinster have an embarrassment of players coning through every year, leave the journeymen to their travels.
Yawn. Leinster expected to wim easily do win easily. Absolutely boring. IRFU got their favourite child everything they wanted for Christmas
@FoxyBoiiYT: Its what we all want for Christmas an Irish successful Provence
@FoxyBoiiYT: poor little munster whingers!!
@FoxyBoiiYT: Luuunster!
@FoxyBoiiYT: Leinster have run a top class operation for many years. This was not due to anything but years of planning and hard work.
Pure Lenistertainment last night
Silly game
Very odd ref’ing of the scrum I thought.
Barrett showed some classy moments as you would expect.
Sam Prendergast was very good.
Bench made a big difference.
Jordie looks like he’s not planning on getting that Leinster jersey dirty too much.
@Jofus Soap: How do you figure that, a dirty jersey means a good game. He came on as a sub, did well and scored a try. Dirtying his jersey matters nothing. Those days are gone, long gone!
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