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Leinster Team to Face Glasgow

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INT. FIRHILL – TUESDAY

Glasgow’s management team huddle round a small table. Glasgow are targeting another win to keep their fight for a playoff spot alive…

– Who are we playing this week then?
– Leinster.
– Bugger. They won the Heineken Cup. BOD, Kearney, Heaslip. OMG, Nathan Hines will be coming to sledge us too and pick a fight with Al Kellock. That Leinster?
– In theory.
– Oh well, I never liked the playoff system anyway. We were top of the league for ages. Moral victory!
– But wait Sean, here’s the team:

15: Ian Madigan, 14: Simon Keogh, 13: Eoin O’Malley, 12: Fergus McFadden, 11: Michael Keating, 10: Paul O’Donohoe, 9: Chris Keane, 1: Ronan McCormack, 2: Bernard Jackman CAPTAIN, 3: Mike Ross, 4: Trevor Hogan, 5: Ciaran Ruddock, 6: Rhys Ruddock, 7: Paul Ryan, 8: Stephen Keogh

– But the bench will be loaded with stars, right?

16: Jason Harris-Wright, 17: Jack McGrath, 18: Mark Flanagan, 19: Dominic Ryan, 20: David Moore, 21: Kyle Tonetti / Brendan Macken, 22: Andrew Conway

FADE OUT

Does a team featuring almost no-one we’ve ever heard of give Glasgow a chance of a useful win, and maybe a bonus point with a final match against the out-of-sorts Scarlets to follow? Will Leinster be kind and play this team against Edinburgh on the last weekend of the regular season? Tune in next week!

1 response

  1. Of course now that Connacht beat Leinster, this team could well change as the Dubliners find themselves under pressure for the right to a home playoff…

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