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Leinster issue significant updates on Jack Conan and Ryan Baird

Jack Conan during Leinster Rugby squad training at UCD in Dublin. (Photo By Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile via Getty Images)

Injuries concerns around both Jack Conan and Ryan Baird has eased following Leinster’s emphatic Investec Champions Cup quarter-final win over Glasgow on Friday night.

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The pair suffered knocks during the comprehensive 52-0 victory over the Scottish heavyweights, with the home side running in eight tries at the Aviva Stadium. Max Deegan opened the scoring and later sealed the rout, while James Lowe, Tommy O’Brien, Hugo Keenan, Garry Ringrose, and Dan Sheehan also dotted down. A penalty try added to Glasgow’s woes.

A Leinster statement this afternoon read: “Jack Conan: will be further assessed this week for a minor shoulder injury and a final decision will be made on his involvement later this week.

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“Ryan Baird: will be further assessed this week for a minor calf injury and a final decision will be made on his involvement later this week.”

Head coach Leo Cullen also revealed that Rónan Kelleher emerged unscathed from his return, having overcome a neck injury.

Cullen added that Paddy McCarthy, Rob Russell, and Will Connors are stepping up their rehabilitation, while no further information is available on Jordan Larmour and James Ryan.

Leinster, who top the URC standings, now turn their attention to Saturday’s showdown with Ulster at 7.35pm at the Aviva Stadium.

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Late Makazole Mapimpi try earns the Sharks win away to Edinburgh

Jake White described this as the strongest Sharks lineup ever. There is no doubt that it is at least an impressive roster. They did win, which is obviously an achievement against a good Edinburgh side. However …


For much of the first half Edinburgh seemed easily able to create 2 on 1 opportunities on both wings, with the defensive wingers biting in on the inside runner and cover defence being AWOL. Conversely the Sharks showed little ability to get behind the Edinburgh defensive line, with the sole exception of a nicely-exploited Am mismatch against a second row (which led to the Fassi try).


In general the Sharks, with their full complement of Bok firepower, do not look that dangerous in attack, and while tackling was good on the whole and goal line defence was impressive at times, they were exhibiting surprising breakdowns in open play defensive structures.


Also, the Sharks continue to be inaccurate, with material impact on the scoreboard. Missing two very kickable penalties is not the way to be the best. It looked to me like the Sharks contestable kicks were not well enough executed, and were too hard to recover.


Not sure what the running attack was trying to do, but my guess is that they were trying to pull off a Harlequins-style bash-and-offload game off of 12 (Esterhuizen). That’s not a terrible idea with the personnel available, but it would require creativity and a precision on second phase that was not in evidence.


Lastly, you have to have better discipline. It’s great that the team can cope with a 13 vs 14 period (of almost 10 minutes), but smart teams a avoid cards.


Having said that it was great to see the win. I thought that Edinburgh were cynical and niggly. Always hanging around on the wrong side of the breakdown, lots of intentional obstruction, illegal dummying at the base of the ruck, etc. They played a dirty game and the ref tolerated it. Always good to see that not succeed.


Overall the “best Sharks lineup ever” scraped the win, but under-performed their Bok-laden potential. Again.

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