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Carbery and Daly at the double as Leinster hit the top

Leinster fly-half Joey Carbery

Joey Carbery and Barry Daly each scored twice as Leinster dominated Edinburgh 39-10 to move top of Pro12.

Daly scored the only try of a first half that saw Leinster lead 8-3, but Carbery – deputising at 10 as Jonathan Sexton remained with Ireland’s Six Nations squad – added a quickfire double after the re-start that proved the catalyst for a six-try haul at RDS Arena.

Man of the Match Daniel Leavy and Bryan Byrne also put their names on the scoresheet as Leinster moved top, albeit Munster will return to the summit if they beat Ospreys on Saturday.

In Friday’s other contest, Steff Evans impressed as Scarlets battered sorry Zebre 42-7 to consolidate their grip on fourth place.

Scarlets, fresh from a huge win over top-four rivals Glasgow Warriors last time out, earned a bonus point win by running in six tries, with the impressive Evans diving down in the corner for the game’s first try.

Mattia Bellini levelled the match shortly after, but that was as good as it got for the Italians, as Aaron Shingler, Tom Williams and Tom Price took the match away from Zebre, before a penalty try and Will Boyde’s score compounded the visitors’ misery at Parc y Scarlets.

Scarlets are now eight points ahead of fifth-place Glasgow, who face a tricky trip to Ulster on Saturday.

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JW 1 hour ago
'They smelt it': Scott Robertson says Italy sensed All Blacks' vulnerability

Even the 20/30 cappers did too I reckon.


IDK, I think Jordan has a limited life span in this side unless he can develop more to his game. Like you go on to mention, I think theyres more important things to worry about than the effectiveness of someone's extra strings, or secondary components to their game.


Bash backs are Fosters thing, and to a large part they've made it work. Theyre now one of the best teams in the world.


They boy's trucked it up a bit against Italy in the redzone, and against France, wasn't that effective without the right players probably.


Try and take a look at it this way. Dissapointed Havili and Blackadder were in the side? Havili despite clearly shown that he can't do what the team needs at 12 was kept on for the RWC. Back goes down and he brings in Blackadder who doesn't play. Refuses to drop Christie when he should and look who starts this season. Beauden Barret not playing well enough to keep his 10 jersey but we gotta keep him in the side. Weve only got one 8, we stuff developing another I'll just play Ardie every game.


This years team wasn't burdened overly with injuries but they were in every position Razor might have wanted to try and development, severely limiting options. I'm not defending Razor as there was also plenty of other opportunity to make up for it and he was a little gunshy, but I'm also not going to overly criticise him because he chose cohesion over a black slate.

How long are we going to keep blaming All Black failings on Ian Foster.

I think more and more people are on board with it being time to try alternatives, but then again, how would they have reacted to a loss against Italy? 😉

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