Pro 12 play offs

it is a bit of a gamble from glasgow dropping jackson to the banch. i do think horne is the better 10 but his goal kicking is very suspect while even though hogg kicked a couple well last week putting him up as front line kicker is a risk, although he is cocky enough to handle it.

PP have an offer on for the Aviva and Rabo semis, double your 1st tryscorer odds if they score another try. Pienaar is 17.0 and Williams is 13.0. Scarlets conceded two tries to the big Treviso back row last week, big boy Williams has gotta be eyeing up that tryline. Piennar scored one last week

Rolland referees France by virtue of being an Irishman and he's refereeing an important game involving an Irish team !!!

only been watching 20 seconds and AR comes up with a shocking decision

Keeps the Rabo travel expense costs down cat . He is such a pedantic pr*ck though, he ruins games

Isn't it wonderful to watch rugby being played in the evening at this time of year?

One would expect a points fest at RDS tomorrow.

Agreed that you wouldn't go against Glasgow on the cap.

pplease hit Rolland someone

Not what you do in front of AR

Trip?

Rolland misses a trip by an Ulster player.

should have been yellow for North there

class by Bowe....making North look like a chump so far

Way too easy that was

game over Scarlets are not getting anything from AR tonight

that was a pretty devastating last 15 mins from ulster.

Why is Rollaind awarding a try, then doubting himself?

another shocker from AR who gives a try and is begged by the Scarlets to review it.

AR couldn't possibly have seen the grounding.

short maybe

met with disbelief by the SC4W studio

can you "unaward" a try?

Did well from there the 9, decent try

more and more decisions go against Scarlets.

been out came back in to find AR still shafting the Scarlets and then "evening" things up when it is too late

no yellow card for a blatant deliberate knock on a yard from the line ...

blatant lying on the wrong side of a ruck with no attempt to move and no penalty

yep cat he decided very early who was going to win this game and as you said bizarre that he should have even been reffing it

did the Scarlets have a say in the appointment?

perhaps England can have their own ref next year against Wales to give them a chance

most charges can be laid against AR

would he have sent off a French player in similar circumstances in the RWC sf ?

seems strange rolland was ref for that match when for the other semi they have appointed a french ref who, although has done pro 12 before, usually does top 14 matches.

remind me again, why is george North a Lions......?

i think glasgow match up very well man for man v leinster.
grant, strauss, matawalu & barclay have been outstading during the season but home ad is so vital here i could see leinster just nicking it.
hoping for a close one but glasgow  have taken a big gamble with the kicking duties so that is the worry. i'm assuming hogg will kick.

It is a weird decision, stopped me going for overs cause it's due to be a dry night. Couldn't resist Matawalu on the pp 1st try scorer offer, at 17.0

2 top try scorers in the league so we could assume points but games just don't work out like that at this stage. i would not be surprised if we did see a few tries tho. hope so

Not a day that you want to be taking a gamble with the kicking duties. It's blowing a gale in Dublin and the RDS is a very exposed ground. Been a few hravy showers, but none for a few hours. The sun is out now and conditions should have dried out a lot in the wind.

I agree that Glasgow match up well against Leinster in most positions, but they are massively outgunned in the 10/12/13 channel and that's where I expect Leinster to capitalise. Going against the grain and taking Leinster on the cap. Conditions were very similar against the Ospreys last weekend when Sexton had a stormer.

DTH 8-1 anyime with victor, 50-1 last tryscorer!

i think you may be underestimating horne & dunbar dunc but i do worry about the kicking. if it were me i probably would have gone with jackson although he aint the most solid kicker either

quite like that dth bet. his own tries have dried up a bit lately but he is still playing very well. i think he should be a 13 which is a position he plays very well for canada

It's a crying shame that Weir misses out because the points line looks far too low if there are two reliable kickers on the pitch, even allowing for the wind and possibility of rain.

O Brian not playing?

in fact i'm amazed vc would go 8/1 anytime for DTH. very sporting of them

I'm assuming it's an error. They will prob call it as such

nah it's not that out of line

good start from glas but nae points

Hells bells, how did they not score there?

Seems a bit of an odd call on the replay?

i thought the ref had given the try sadly it was a pen

Leinster player hanging on to ball on the ground and they get the pen. ffs

there is what swings games. leinster under all sorts of pressure stay strong while glasgow under a little bit give up a pen

now i didn't expect that

I don't think Leinster did stay strong, I think they infringed but got away with a very dodgy call.

glasgow flirting with a card here

try all day long

get in!!

he's some boy nico

Should've gone with my gut and points here. Took a small bit, but nothing more. Don't fancy Leinster at all now with BOD gone off, but at least I managed to cover most of that when they had a 3 point leaad.

Just need another now to double my odds

How is Grant not in the Lions squad

surely he got that down, if not it was some hold up

wow some effort to stop the ty

I think it was more a balls up than a great hold up

Gauzere letting both sides away with murder at the breakdown

can't remember last time i saw leinster under this sort of pressure at the RDS. need to turn it into points tho cos leinster will if they get those chances

Exactly what I was thinking nl. Leinster are going to have at least one spell where they convert a chance so need points on the board.

That strike helps and should do his confidence the world of good.

Hang your head in shame,vKellock. Try all day long.

Good indication of the wind Leinster are playing into with that conversion

that was just brain dead nico. you have to move

Dull by Matawalu, but yellow?

he asked for it. he can't just stroll back onside like that

from a good position glasgow could find themselves a couple of scores down because of that stupidity

You feel Glasgow need at least a 17-11 lead at HT time given the wind advantage.

that is a very harsh pen

glasgow would have loved that scrum if time allowed

B0llocks ref that had to be a slap down by D'Arcy

if this goes to script then leinster will come out like demons for the first 10 mins of the 2nd half and try to take the game away from glasgow. all about discipline which has not been great from the away side

Really hope beyond hope that Glasgow can win and not because of my betting position. They really do deserve something from this season, they have played the most exciting rugby in the league by a mile

i think kearney holding up that try could prove to be a match winning move

that is high risk rugby

i can't help think glasgow may have punched themselves out here without landing a serious blow and leinster will step in with the knock out punch

at least if they go out glasgow are going out on their shield (that is enough metaphors for tonight)

Least the draws on now

if glas calmed down for a mo they will score. great move tho

oh **** this is a huge kick and why isn't jackson taking it?????

that was daft. jackson is a + 80% kicker. i don't get it

i just don't understand why hogg kicked. makes no sense

Gutted. Fck knows why he didn't take it. deserved the win IMO

i'm shellshocked. i just will never understand why when you have your regular goal kicker on the pitch you would give the ball to an occasional kicker. it just beggars belief.

As they say in the US, you gotta make those plays. They made Leinster look plain average. Shame he couldn't knock it over.

actually no it does not beggar belief it is f***ing insane

Gotta say though, I never saw that season coming. Townsend has done a good job, a player revolt was probably more likely than what they achieved. They have done the opposite of my expectations, grown as the season has gone on.

i agree MB but i still can't get my head around that ending. jackson is over 80%  and kicking is his job. why on earth did hogg take it. i'm mystified.

It's not just the choice of kicker that is questionable , but the try scorer went over the try line between tired , lumbering forwards and touched down as soon as he could . If he had thought about things he would have done his damnedest to get closer to the posts . IMO

Too true mate. Cost me about 300, or at least the chance of a decent lay, but c'est la vie hey. You could be as bad as the Dragons

Nl, what are your thoughts on Townsend at season's end? Not saying that to rile you, genuine question as you know you were unhappy in the circumstances that Lineen left. Townsend looks to have taken them to another level...

nah i'm not blaming bennet at all he got the ball down in decent kicking range. the rest was madness. who knows maybe jackson would have missed but he is the first choice goal kicker so why on earth was hogg up at the tee

fair point MB. i was very unhappy the way sean was sidelined and still am. i can't fault townsend though as he has got the side playing with real flair. the core of that side though are lineens team, the lads he brought through like grant, low, murchie, horne, weir, wilson etc etc.
he brought through a generation of players that GT has to call on plus they used to play on a very narrow pitch so expansive rugby was impossible.
maybe it was time for a change but the way it was done leaves a sour taste and we will never know how far sean could have taken them.

True words, and not trying to provoke here. I suppose it has made his job of crafting easier, and to add to it he's obviously had some money/support floating about with signings like Strauss and Maitland

we didn't see mailand coming but i believe that was lineen that signed him up. not sure who signed nico & strauss but whoever it was did very well

Who was MOM lads? Presume it was made on Irish tv?

If Matawalu was British he would be a Lion. No doubt. He has a Shane Williams type quality

Dunno MB. It was on the local Gaelic language station so I had the mute button on for most of it and wasn't paying attention to commentary.

Matawalu defies logic. He crabs and crabs, but then he's gone or flicks a pass out of the back of his hand and someone else is. He draws defenders like a back row forward.

Heaslip got MOM. Missed the 1st 50 mins but feel gutted for Glasgow that they didnt sneak it in the end, could watch that style of rugby all day long, some of the offloading was unreal.

Analysts on TG4 were saying that Leinster were out on their feet in the last 15 and that there is no way they will be able to win the 2 finals, with only a 6 day break until the Stade game.  Joe Schmidt seemed unhappy with the reffing at the scrums in the 2nd half after the subs came on.

if there is a team i wouldn't bet against doing it it is leinster. it is amazing how battle hardened the irish teams have become. when i was growing up they were a "soft touch" (not the players who were hard as nails but the winning mentality)  and more than any others steeped in the amateur code.
what has happened since has been remarkable.