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Leinster confirm 28 new contracts and 7 players departing province
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Leinster Rugby has this morning confirmed 28 new contracts for the 2020/21 season, while also confirming their list of departees.
However, with Covid-19 still impacting on the 2019/20 season, two players have been retained beyond their original contract end-date of June 30th.
Leinster Rugby Head Coach Leo Cullen welcomed the announcement and also acknowledged the unique circumstances facing a number of players.
"We are delighted to be able to confirm the list of 28 contracts today and in particular with so many of them coming through the clubs and the schools of Leinster. A huge amount of work goes in to developing players at all levels of the game so it’s incredibly pleasing for us to have five players promoted directly from our Academy.
"It is always a hugely special day for them, their families and their clubs and schools so I would like to congratulate Ryan (Baird), Harry (Byrne), Jack (Dunne), Tommy (O’Brien) and Dan (Sheehan).
"We are also delighted that Fergus McFadden and Rob Kearney have agreed to stay on for the completion of the 2019/20 Season. Both players have given so much to the team over the course of their careers as “one club” men and hopefully, they can both contribute strongly to the team for the games that we still hope to play out.
"This has also been a challenging time for many players who are leaving clubs as there has been so much uncertainty but we would like to wish all the players leaving Leinster the very best in what is next in their respective careers.
"To Bryan, Barry and Joe from the Senior squad and to Jack, Gavin, Roman and Oisín from the Academy we would like to thank you all for your contribution and effort that you have given the club.
"Our focus now is making sure our training environment is as good and safe as it can be as we look to prepare for the completion of our Guinness PRO14 campaign and of course our eagerly-awaited showdown against Saracens in the Quarter-Final of the Heineken Champions Cup."
Included in the list of 28 is 14 Irish internationals with 301 caps between them, while 23 of the 28 players have come through the Leinster Rugby Academy system.
Leinster Rugby – New Senior Contracts:
1. Vakh Abdaladze, 11 Leinster Caps (LC), 1 Leinster Tries (T)*
2. Ryan Baird, 7 LC, 3 T
3. Michael Bent, 4 Ireland Caps (IC), 135 LC, 4 T
4. Adam Byrne, 1 IC, 57 LC, 20 T
5. Ed Byrne, 52 LC, 7 T
6. Harry Byrne, 9 LC, 2 T
7. Ross Byrne, 6 IC, 84 LC, 5 T
8. Will Connors, 15 LC, 2 T
9. Seán Cronin, 72 IC, 181 LC, 41 T
10. Peter Dooley, 76 LC, 2 T
11. Caelan Doris, 2 IC, 29 LC, 4 T
12. Jack Dunne, 7 LC, 0 T
13. Scott Fardy, 39 Australia Caps (AC), 58 LC, 10 T
14. Jordan Larmour, 24 IC, 46 LC, 12 T
15. Dan Leavy, 11 IC, 63 LC, 14 T
16. James Lowe, 43 LC, 28 T
17. Ross Molony, 95 LC, 3 T
18. Josh Murphy, 32 LC, 2 T
19. Tommy O’Brien, 3 LC, 1 T
20. Rory O’Loughlin, 1 IC, 67 LC, 21 T
21. Rowan Osborne, 4 LC, 1 T
22. Andrew Porter, 26 IC, 62 LC, 9 T
23. Rhys Ruddock, 26 IC, 172 LC, 10 T
24. James Ryan, 26 IC, 37 LC, 2 T**
25. Dan Sheehan, 0 LC, 0 T
26. Devin Toner, 70 IC, 244 LC, 4 T
27. James Tracy, 6 IC, 108 LC, 8 T
28. Josh van der Flier, 26 IC, 80 LC, 9 T
Academy Players Promoted to Senior Squad:
1. Ryan Baird
2. Harry Byrne
3. Jack Dunne
4. Tommy O’Brien
5. Dan Sheehan
Leinster Rugby – Departees:
1. Jack Aungier, 5 LC, 0 T
2. Bryan Byrne, 47 LC, 12 T
3. Barry Daly, 36 LC, 19 T
4. Oisín Dowling, 6 LC, 0 T
5. Gavin Mullin, 2 LC, 0 T
6. Roman Salanoa, 3 LC, 0 T
7. Joe Tomane, 17 AC, 21 LC, 3 T
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That’s not the only way to look at it. Every year there are players with breakout seasons in the feeder comp. Those players are fairly limited in what options they have because the Super sides operate as ‘clubs’ where they have people contracted for multiple years and no space available unlike contracting setups in the NFL. Going to four would force an improvement in player retention imo.
As per above I think there is a lot of intelligence in doing that. I reckon I could come up with a dead wood list of 30 names for you. But yes, it certainly means they would need to factor in a better way of making sure the right players are retained. I like small squads myself, but every year teams are needing to go well beyond their numbers and pick from those that remained in NZ after missing out on Super contracts, so just compensating by having fewer teams but larger squads would certainly be viable, especially the way they are injurying their players currently.
Why not just give them Moana figuretively speaking to have as their fourth side (so they need to drop a side so it can be 5 teams on each side of the ditch, with Drua having Fiji games as well)? That’s the point of my reply, that the Aussies should have actually consolidated to 3 teams years ago, not four, pertinent because the 11 teams currently is not ‘it’. Hey, if they can get a Jaguares, or (South) American team in with even half of Argentina’s test stars and most of all the others, as a 12th team willing to play within 10 hours flight, then great, that’s obviously the way to go. But weve heard nothing. I can’t see a 6th NZ team as they’ve refused profusely and it would take too much of a restructural step for them to accept imo.
Yep, that’s right, the 12 number is also not ‘it’. 10 rather than 12 gives them more flexibility imo. It could all change depending on what this new test window global season bs is going to be.
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