Leinster v Harlequins - Sat 15:00

[Epaminondas Pules]

STARTING XV
15. Leigh Halfpenny (9)
14. Tyrone Green (89)
13. Oscar Beard (72)
12. Ben Waghorn (11)
11. Nick David (69)
10. Marcus Smith (173)
9. Will Porter (40)
1. Fin Baxter (64)
2. Jack Walker (83)
3. Titi Lamositele (15)
4. Joe Launchbury (38)
5. Chandler Cunningham-South (28)
6. Jack Kenningham (67)
7. Will Evans (109)
8. Alex Dombrandt © (151)

IMPACT PLAYERS
16. Sam Riley (67)
17. Wyn Jones (17)
18. Simon Kerrod (120)
19. Irne Herbst (63)
20. George Hammond (78)
21. Danny Care (391)
22. Jamie Benson (19)
23. Luke Northmore (78)

Unavailable: Cassius Cleaves (Hamstring), James Chisholm (Achilles), Lucas Friday (ACL), Will Joseph (Hamstring), Dino Lamb (Shoulder), Stephan Lewies (Achilles), Dillon Lewis (Bicep),

[Mikey Brown]

I don’t know why they seem to be so against posting a team in text format, so you have to share a random Twitter or Reddit link, but teams can be found here.

https://www.quins.co.uk/article/preview ... harlequins

CCS starts at lock (alongside Launchbury) for Quins, which is very interesting.

Leinster side is very impressive though. Very difficult to see an away win here but we’ve had a few surprising performances recently.

Big game for Waghorn at 12 again Henshaw/Ringrose with Barrett to come off the bench at some point.

[Mikey Brown]

Also Halfpenny starting doesn’t fill me with confidence these days. Green doesn’t seem to get as involved from the wing.

[Mikey Brown]

Ah. EP beat me to it and posted an actual team.

[FKAS]

Leinster Rugby (caps in brackets):
15. Hugo Keenan (71)
14. Jamie Osborne (57)
13. Garry Ringrose (133)
12. Robbie Henshaw (98)
11. James Lowe (85)
10. Sam Prendergast (25)
9. Jamison Gibson-Park (151) 1. Andrew Porter (131)
2. Dan Sheehan (65)
3. Rabah Slimani (15)
4. Joe McCarthy (42)
5. RG Snyman (14)
6. Jack Conan (158)
7. Josh van der Flier (152)
8. Caelan Doris (91) CAPTAIN Replacements:
16. Gus McCarthy (12)
17. Jack Boyle (20)
18. Tadhg Furlong (150)
19. Ryan Baird (77)
20. Max Deegan (128)
21. Luke McGrath (226)
22. Ross Byrne (180)
23. Jordie Barrett (7)

[FKAS]

That Leinster backline isn't exactly stacked with pace. As long as Quins can keep pace up front and give their backs chance to open up this could be an end to end score fest.

[Puja]

Ah. EP beat me to it and posted an actual team.

FTFY.

Cunningham-South playing lock against Leinster is going to be a hell of a test of his credentials. Be very interested to hear how he gets on - would be very useful for England if he makes that his position going forwards and makes a success of it.

Puja

[Danno]

Also Halfpenny starting doesn’t fill me with confidence these days. Green doesn’t seem to get as involved from the wing.

I still don't know why we signed him. We don't need his place kicking and the rest of his game is very square peg at Quins

[Danno]

Gonna be a looong game

[Mr Mwenda]

Well this is a bit disappointing if perhaps unsurprising.

[p/d]

Oh dear

[Mr Mwenda]

We've switched to Castres v Treviso. Avanti!

[Danno]

This is painful

[FKAS]

What happens when you have a team with it not the biggest then one of the biggest budgets in Europe with effectively most of a top 3 international side plus a couple of super stars from overseas play a side with half the budget. Only going to be one winner.

Harsh yellow card and PT there. Thought that was two hands out and a desperate attempt to take the ball.

[Danno]

Probably makes up for Snyman's earlier

[Mr Mwenda]

We've switched to Castres v Treviso. Avanti!

Depressing end to that too

[fivepointer]

Pretty grim viewing from a Quins POV. Think the Nil will be the real disappointment.

[Mikey Brown]

Yep. Call me a fair weather fan or whatever, but I missed this one and have no intention of even looking at those highlights.

It’s hard to know what you do with a result like that. We can really show up against some of the best teams around, but there’s just as high a chance we turn out looking like complete amateurs.