How old are you?

@Crusader #Raider ABs will be very hard to beat in the World Cup. And the boks will certainly not be a pushover. I don’t see the Wallabies doing well, but I think the French will want to avoid playing them in the finals, as they always seem to struggle against Aus for some reason.

@@ryans32978 on a joué les wallabies avec notre équipe D voilà pourquoi tu as l'impression qu'on a bataillé contre les wallabies ;) Honnêtement je ne me prononce pas sur une victoire de la France il y a trop de qualité en face . Nous verrons bien ! Flemme d'écrire en anglais désolé , c'est le matin ici .

@Crusader #Raider The majority of players in every team of the top 14 is french. Of course there are internationnal, every nation have them no ? (genuine question) For exemple if you compare with football it's day and night.

@@jeanmichelreneredbeans4104 can you please translate in English, as I can’t understand French. I would love to learn that beautiful language one day.

What' were the odds ffs

@@ThatGuyMofo 60 40 I believe

@@jeremy_1999u i’m sure some went as far as 80 to 20

Oh Yes You can't test

Best team won

@@stevenbissett 40 ?

@@stevenbissett yet*

@@stevenbissett im kidding lads i just hope we win at home next year

Yh, don’t listen to those guys. As a guy with modest expectation I was utterly ashamed of their spoilt egos, especially that slogger Ger Gilroy & co.

They were wrong completely. The reason that Leinster did well and seemed dominant is because they beat Montpelliers mix of second and third team because the 1st team all had reasons they couldn't play. Then Toulouse lost because they were still recovering from a 100 minute game against Munster. La Rochelle are always incredible to watch and always do so well. Leinster would never have been able to compete with the brutality of la Rochelle.

@@karlosdeevsLeinster just got a bad ref on day la r will never win if we get better ref in Dublin Irish should have won just two points shows I'm right

What u expect them to say Notting like English bragging.keibster lost so low it was just bad okay by lar

HCUP >>>>>

What do you mean humbled ? See you in the Aviva 2023 !!!😅

​@@jacobking3211 Salty😢

​@@jacobking3211they bottled it

Connacht supporter delighted!

The last decade?? What, they've been terrible for years bar the last two

You think west will get an opportunity ti play with the ABs?

@@fookmiass3130 doubt it, way too much competition. If ppl had the time i would love to see the AB’s play a kiwi exiles xv boasting the likes of Ihaia West, Victor Vito, Jerome Kaino, Aaron Cruden & Ma’a Nonu

All Blacks, as if they needed it , now have template for beating Ireland in the test series

The ref who allowed La Rochelle cynically concede 12 penalties without even a warning for a yellow?

@@inBODwetrust13 Leinster also deserved a yellow card in the final minutes for multiple fouls to prevent any try attempts. So in the end, it balances out.

@@inBODwetrust13 Médiocre and wrong comment but you already know it. Thanks to confirm Toulouse is the best and classiest team of European history... And Leinster being a fantastic Ireland selection unable to win this club competition.

@@zisssssou Yh, yh.. Toulouse who took a 40pt pasting, they’re a shadow of their former selves in the european cup.

@@karlosdeevs They are not the shadow of themselves, they played way more than Leinster which only had 10 tough matches in the season and all the time in the world to prepare, for the French club it's 3x more complicated matches, they are tired and still manage to win both european cups. It's even worse for Toulouse since a lot of their players also had to play the 6 nations + Ulster and Munster on extremely physical matches Every season is the same. Play them in February and see the difference while they are still fresh. Glad La Rochelle won, they deserve it way more than you who are too arrogant whereas you have the best conditions to win and don't realize it.

Top 14 used to be stuck in boring conservative rugby. Now a few clubs are really playing fantastic rugby. La Rochelle, Toulouse, Bordeaux-Begles. This season the level has never been so dense with 8 clubs coming close to playoffs without really knowing who would qualify or not 2 weekends before the end with Toulon reviving a bit. Best time of the year with the excitement is pumping up, the weather getting hotter, the game faster. Everybody wants to go to the capital for the final. Love it!

Beat them 2 years in a row now. Quality team

So Leinster is Ireland and La Rochelle isn’t a barbarians team now is it? Alright I see how you look at things. And I assume if France got beaten by Ireland you wouldn’t be so quick to say Leinster just beat France? Because it’s all within your context obviously and that’s all that matters.

Whatever, the Leinster / Irish ☘️ team bottled it, with the pack never getting into it. The backs were all over the place with their passing and missed some tackles. Horrific final for the lads and they know it. However pick yerselves up and go and win the rest. Leo, get some very big lads in for the second row asap and let’s blow them all away next year with brutiful rugby 😎 Oh, well done La Rachelle …….: don’t choke on yer dinner RoG 😃.

​@@BobH-eh8wuAre you stupid or just irish ?

Actually that was exactly the case when sarries first won it in lyon 2016, and when leinster won their fourth trophy back in bilbao 2018 it was also without scoring any tries. In fact i believe both games were completely try-less but still pretty intense.

For me it is incredible that in a sport that changes the rules constantly, the try is still so undervalued, the try should be worth 6 points and 1 conversion, it cannot be that a try is less than 2 penalties

I think it's the best rugby team Leinster have ever had but their not winners which is a real shame but well done La Rochelle you still have to beat them.

everybody realized that the irish and the english are bullshit when they don't play home and don't have the ref on their side ! Leinster and all these big irish or english teams are advantaged playing quarter and semi home as usual...they are overrated and when they play away, with no public and no ref with them, they got their ass kicked !

@@AB-hh2eu The two point conversion means more pressure to get the try closer to the posts so it makes it more interesting. And beware of wishing the laws to change constantly - it has not really been that much of an improvement for the game; for instance, you kick the ball into the goal area, the defender dots it down and then loses 22 metres on what he used to get as though he is supposed to run it from there? What's the point of that?

The French clubs are pretty good their style of play is fun to watch imo. If they could join super rugby it would take Rugby as a whole to the next level.

@@pjpomare3598 we dont need to join super rugby,we take our own way...

I am a fan of Auckland Blues from Russia. Greetings!

@@alexguntar3861 greetings mate. As a fellow Blues fan you must be feeling good about how well the Blue's are playing at the moment. You will have to come to NZ to watch the mighty Blues play a home game on Eden Park

@@warriorsfan1602 Thanks for the answer! The last and this championship Blues show a great game! Our guys are the best in the universe! We are champions!!! My dream is to see the Blues play live at least once!

Yeah because it’s full of actual Irish players. Your team is a barbarians team with three times the budget of any other team in Europe. It took you til the 79th minute to go ahead in that game and there were 20 players in that squad born in Leinster. Whereas you had the heaviest pack in the history of the competition. And that’s what it came down to. Spending your millions on over seas players who are significantly bigger than our forwards. You’re still a shit team. The fact you couldn’t get ahead til the last minute with all your resources and foreign players just proves that 😂

​@@BobH-eh8wu weight, foreigners players ? One of the worst excuses I have ever seen. Firstly, l'm not a La Rochelle fan, I wouldn't even care if they were eliminated in pool stage. Secondly, just because someone is bigger doesn't mean he is better (Btw, Leinster forwards weighted 909kg while La Rochelle's weighted 925kg in this final, no significant weight advantage.) Thirdly, basically you are saying that Irish players are inferior to foreign players ? hiring foreigners doesn't make a team better. Leinster lost because La Rochelle nullified Leinstermen's plan, not because La Rochelle was heavier or has foreigners in it's squad. l don't root for La Rochelle but they don't deserve all those trashtalks. They were the underdogs and managed to beat one of the greatest club of all time. Overall in European history, Leinstermen have accomplished more than la Rochelle but people are just so upset that a rookie club beat a veteran club. It's just disappointing that some people won't admit la Rochelle was better that night and still trying to make excuses.

@@BobH-eh8wu Talking about budget while IRFU is paying half of your players :D

Shit eating grin as you admit that

Chokers again just like Ireland every worldcup 😂😂😂 these lads are just front runners😂😂😂😂

@@diggyzeus186 I think you forget this was the first irish-french final that a french side won. The irish sides won the previous 4 in 1999, 2006, 2008 and 2018.

The signs were there and we ignored them . First game against Connacht and second half against Leicester. Great players in Leinster - unfortunately under prepared for LR ( well known) style of play .

@Belfast Blue FRONTRUNNERS PRETENDERS LET that sink in than watch the Irish ship full of potatoes 🥔 sink in France 🇫🇷 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

They have a budget 3 times bigger than any other team in Europe and couldn’t win until the 79th minute. It’s literally the same as a light heavyweight trying to fight a super heavyweight in boxing. It’s not a question of skill but of sheer size. And they were able to buy those players because they have an advantage that other teams don’t have with their enormous budget. So obviously that was going to happen. The fact they couldn’t win by more is actually embarrassing let’s be honest. Barely a french person in the team and outweighed us man for man.

@@BobH-eh8wu Their budget is €26Mil 8th budget in the top 14 you bitter uneducated CRE TIN

@@BobH-eh8wu TOI T'est vraiment un looser

Can't complain about only scoring penalties when La Rochelle were committing tonnes of fouls whenever Leinster got going in their 22. Hard to score tries when constantly dealing with infringements. If Leinster had the same tactics they would have won.

@@cilliangreene4350 You're being dishonest here. Leinster could have scored many tries had it not been for la Rochelle's defense. The fouls were each time converted in points for Leinster. I believe that if you're not able to score tries, it's up to you. Leinster could/should have played better but they were not on their best day, and la Rochelle was. The best team won that final. And I might be 'old school' but I will always rate tries more than penalties. And 3 tries to nil should end any debates about this final.

​@@cilliangreene4350 hi i just come back from the future and i discover the same hilarious Irish fans blaming Wayne Barnes for their loss vs la Rochelle... Now blaming Toulouse fans for the same reason. Hahaha internet never forgets 😂

This is because of the "doubloons", i.e. the days when the French team and the championship teams play. Thus Toulouse, which has 9/10 of the 15 players of the national team, is in 6th place and La Rochelle, which started badly, is in 5th place. Castres and Montpellier have a good ranking but are not very competitive with La Rochelle, Toulouse and Bordeaux... This is the reason why it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, for French clubs to perform in the Top 14 and European Cup: the most difficult and longest championship + the "doubloons" + the confrontation with teams who play very little during the year and who are fresh (the "provinces" system guarantees this to the Irish for example)

But Leinster beat the “top” team in the top14 by nearly 80 points, so I don’t think it’s very representative. It’s just which french teams decide to focus on Europe and which teams focus on domestic comps

@@SB-uo9to this is probably the best rugby team Leinster have ever had but their not winners which is a shame

@@DM-rp9ik nah Leinster in 2018 were a better team imo, this team has better players yes but as a unit they’re not quite as good as that team

They have won Montpellier by 80 but its wasnt the A team of Montpellier..

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Thx for the feedback, rugby has o‘gora & football has benzema that‘s the difference..

@@karlosdeevs lol shut up

at the end the rugby has won not the kicker

Very sportsman like of you

Oh so you’re gonna congratulate them now? They’re literally a cancer on the competition. But yeah congratulate the barbarians

Yh. leinster will come back next year, better than before

Agree

Buy far

@@nc4813*by far

I think the AB only give the jersey to players who play in NZ, but maybe I'm wrong.

Mr skelton seems to be the thron in their side maybe

@@robz1471 to be honest hes the exact sort of player leinster need in their team. A big fuckoff second row who can bully the opposition. If Skelton was a leinster player I reckon there would be no stopping them

So the south african teams have a chance in the URC, if we play our normal beat you up rugby.?

@@arnoldbrand7120 maybe they will, personally I dont think so since I dont think any of the 4 SA teams have the physicality of that La Rochelle team, but anything is possible

It's a shame that you think rugby is a battle of mass rather than skill.

Yea all that's needed is a billionaire to back them so you can buy a team of mercenaries with no one within 1000 miles of the local area... What hope

@@inBODwetrust13 You should really check facts bro... Plenty of players are from France, many started rugby in LR's rugby school or youngsters team. Don't be mad, it's still a good win against Ireland!

@@inBODwetrust13 tell me you know nothing about La Rochelle without actually telling me you know nothing about La Rochelle

@@come712 couldn't even hire a local coach. Mercenaries throughout

@@inBODwetrust13 The backbone of Leinster's success came from Michael Cheika and Joe Schmidt 🧐

Doing this would encourage foul & cynical play from defences and would result in more negative games.

@@potheadtoker11 Everything has its counterpart, for me this scoring system means that rugby is played in a very conservative way and for many teams it is primary to look for the opponent's mistake passing the midfield before looking for the in goal area. And sometimes we see some games that are a punishment for the spectator.

I agree tries are underevaluated 6+1 or 6+2

@@jeanllup6150 i agree 6+2 would be perfect

Tant mieux frog 🐸, next time !!!

@@polobhuilean5217 never mangeur de couilles de moutons 🐑 !

Ahahah shame on you bad looooosers 😆😘😘😘

To be fair La Rochelle had luck, never thought they could win !

La Rochelle should have had at least two yellow cards for persistent penalties.

@@paulmarconi6579 there was a rollneck from Leinster non whistled, persistant penalties from the Irish at the end of the game. And many more not mentioned by Waynes W. Barnes. He has a slight eyes defect: he only sees French fouls.

Methinks you were following the red shoes rather than the match. Barnes and TMO didn't even bother addressing the clearly late and extremely fucking cynical hit on Sexton that forced him off around about the time the tide started to turn. Should have been yellow card and penalty Leinster. Cynical, dangerous and just unnecessary.

@@paulmarconi6579 jealous , you hate the french rugby , but sorry actually he is one the best

You're right if you cut the ''great stadium''

@@frenchflair7699 Yh cuz it’s a phenomenal stadium, maybz the finest stadium in all of europe along with the new white hart lane. 67’000 seats is hard to match compared to 33’151 or 19’500.

@@frenchflair7699 hahaha, I say it is a great stadium because France beat the All Blacks in an epic game in 2000 😁

@@frenchflair7699 le Velodrome c'est un grand stade et a une bonne histoire kesta avec ton vieux stade de 20 000 places ferme ta bouche abruti

@@emmanuelpy8339 yh same goes for carisbrook in ‘09 unfortunately it no longer exists.

Agreed, 2/3 penalty’s 5m out, why wouldn’t they go for the try, any other day of the week Leinster are going under the sticks, so makes 0 sense they deny the chance to push ahead for the 3, but as you said, Rochelle got in thier heads, and it paid off for them..

Guess who's back ? Le flair...

Ireland champions of Europe, Leinster in the 2023 final . Irish ☘️ rugby rules again. Not bad for a little nation of 4.8 million 😊

@@Shane-zx4ps Yes not bad for a small country but we have to look closely, the Irish concentrate all their best players in only 1 or 2 clubs. LOL Let's imagine the same thing in France or even in England, it would be terrible to live for all the other clubs in Europe. For the rest, do you dare to come and play the arrogant now that you have won the Tournament and that you have a club in the final of the European Cup? LOL That's easy because in life things change and no one can always win everything. It's on the length of time that we judge not on one a year... But so I'm going to do like you: See you next year with France World Champion at home, it will be my turn again. ^^ PS: It's not over yet for France, there is still another club in the other semi-final eh, La Rochelle, the reigning European Champion!

Il manque la plus belle, l'an prochain peut être

La Rochelle came to play 10 man rugby.

Moray Rhoda mate i see ur comment everywhere!

@@paulmarconi6579 And ....?

Negative french rugby as usual. Anti rugby won today

@@Thomas-ou2sp négative French rugby is still Europe's champion mate both club and national team Négative rugby is 3 tries to 0. I'm not sure what you call anti rugby but you are so wrong on every level.

@@saudanjulien729 don‘t bother with him, he is what impersonated negative rugby. As for the last 10mins it was a dog fight with both teams desperate to win, i‘d go as far as to say the ref did everything in his power as a neutral.

As a Leinster and Ireland fan, it pains me to say it, but you're not wrong.

It’s the same things for france ´s team

As a South African supporter, I couldn’t agree more. This year was the first time we’ve experienced this for ourselves (what with our participation in the URC) and i’m already sick of these Irish fans. Some of the most cocky, classless and rude fans i’ve ever had the displeasure of interacting with.

@@DavyBrando look man, i feel like that attributes to both sides. Cuz those that get cocky think they’re owed something with is utter nonsense..

Moron, we are a nation of five million people, with rugby being the #3 or #4 sport, we punch above our weight in most sports, we also know how to behave win lose or draw!

Dude almost everyone believed the bullsh*t. Ca. 80-90 of the rugby world called it for leinster.

@@karlosdeevs The problem for the Leinster team was they believed it. All the talk of a fifth star before a ball was kicked. They never factored in ROG.

@@heyhey5712 he’s shrewd guy so he is..

I agree that la rochelle were well deserved winners but leinster are still the best team and club in Europe as was seen in the semi final. Leinster on form are un beatable where as la rochelle on for are still a very close game.

@@user-is9of to be fair most of the points Leinster scored were given by La Rochelle poor discipline under no real pressure.

@@user-is9of I understand what you're saying but if Leinster were as strong as people say, they would have won more Champions Cups. This year, I think they played their final a game early.

​@@user-is9of 😴😴😴

@@Roark3675 And for them to not even score a try epitomises La Rochelle's formidable defence.

Didn’t we all..

Even if leinster had won, they would’ve deserved it too. Despite being sloppy at times..

Pas sur la compétition, mais sur le match la Rochelle méritait plus

pour l'emporter il aurait fallu qu 'ils jouent avec leur coeurs comme les rochelais l'ont fait parceque 3+3+3+3+3+3+3 je n'apelle pas ça jouer avec le coeur moi =D

un petit malin celui la...

Certainly stole the show compared to football atm. Home team champions at both level of european rugby, and not even the regular french heavyweights which mean more depth in success. French football has nothing compared to this, just some qatari owned club & kariem benzema winning champ league as well as a bunch of ex wc winners unlikely to repeat the feat.

@@karlosdeevs why are you talking about our football ? And why are you saying n'importe quoi ?

@@monsieursarcasme7064 that’s my point. Because football isn’t important atm, everyone in france especially those outside the south & west should look to rugby as best. We saw it last night with those rowdys in st. denis, they should look to rugby and not to some softball clubs from outside the country.

@@monsieursarcasme7064 .

lol good point, I hear this all year long as an Ulster fan. Leinster are too well coached for me, no real genuine strength or speed anywhere in their team and they are just not skilled enough or have the confidence to play like the actual best teams in the world such as the crusaders or the blues.

I’d give my left arm to have a Stormers versus Bulls derby for the URC final - unlikely, but just imagine how bedonnered these Irish fans would be lmao.

Hahahahahaha trolling much!! But I can't say I don't approve :)

I think you'll find there's a few players from Munster, Connacht and Ulster in that Irish Team too

Yes they did imagine the pack would dominate them coz they dominated Leinster last year

@@ThatGuyMofo l think they were very confident. They destroyed every team. Skelton playing the final was a good surprise. Without him the pack of la Rochelle isn't the same..

@@french.blackdevil1967 Leinster and Ireland struggle against big packs in the scrum. We did what we have done in our last 3 Heineken finals and totally forget how to play

Negative french rugby as usual. Anti rugby won today

@@Thomas-ou2sp man, you keep repeating yourself.. which devalues your comments.. just accept the defeat. Your team will come back stronger. No need to criticize la Rochelle team for their rugby

Leinster the only team capable of competing with the big French teams, Leicester and the rest of the English clubs proved they're absolutely nowhere at the moment 💀

@@JohnCena-pm4dw 'The big French teams'?? Leinster have more money than almost every club in Europe. Stop pretending like they're some low level team punching above their financial level. They're absolutely loaded and it helps them buy domestic success year on year. But they're also fairly one dimensional too, which when they face an opponent big enough to negate that, leaves them out of their depth. Keenan, Sexton, Lowe, Ryan, Ringrose, JGP were all being talked up this year as superstars. Leinster fans everywhere bemoaning why the Irish players missed out on the Lions. Well we saw why in that match. They just aren't good enough against physical opponents who apply pressure. As for Leicester Tigers, it was ROG who said post-match that their game vs Leinster had showed him how to beat Leinster. That Tigers blew it by starting slowly, and left themselves too much to do even though they finished as the better team. So I'll take ROG's opinion over yours, thanks.

@@arthurwestcott5437 almost all leinsters players are from their own academy, they dont bend any rules. You wanna talk about bending the rules, the only English team capable of winning the Heineken cupmultiple times in the last decade literally DID cheat in their own league, ie. Saracens 😂 Leicester tigers started slow cause leinster started fast and they couldn't handle it haha, la Rochelle are a far better team than the tigers, englands best team lost at home to leinster, they'd have been pummeled away, and that's not a good sign for the other English teams who were absolutely nowhere to be found in the business end of this year's competition. ROG said tigers gave them the blueprint, the difference is La Rochelle had the players to pull it off, the tigers didn't 💀 You've already proved by your constant spamming of anti Irish rhetoric on this KZfaq channel how much you hate Irish teams so your opinion means nothing haha, you're just crying cause all your English teams bottled it whereas an Irish team actually made the final

@@JohnCena-pm4dw Claiming almost all the Leinster players come from their Academy is a notoriously, and now well exposed, hollow argument. Leinster are a very rich club compared with most others in Europe. All the central funding contracts, all the tax concessions, and an absolute truck load of private investment to support their training and academies. Only the most desperate Leinster fan would even try to claim otherwise these days. Everyone knows just how much money Leinster has behind them. But as we've seen time and time again, it's still not enough against the likes of Saracens or La Rochelle. Leinster were lucky to finish that game with 15 men on the field. They spent the final ten minutes cheating near constantly to prevent La Rochelle from scoring. In truth, La Rochelle were comfortably better across the entire eighty minutes and in almost every area of the game. Leinster were talked up as the best team in Europe, with some of the best players in the world. Yet as we saw yesterday, neither is true. Especially that latter part. Sexton, JGP, Lowe, Ryan, Ringrose, Keenan, Porter, etc. were all clearly over hyped and nowhere near as good as many claimed they were. La Rochelle were comfortably better, and I can't see the likes of Toulouse having to play a semifinal while exhausted next year either. So with Saracens back, Leinster may well be out at the QF stage yet again. Beyond that I think I'll leave you to your desperate ranting. Better luck next year!

@@arthurwestcott5437 so leinsters academy produces a team capable of making the European final and you cry about that, good job mate! Pure salt haha. Think that's better than the English clubs who have to buy half of south africa to even have a chance Great, the actual cheating team are back next year, maybe now an English team will have a chance at winning again, probably not tho 😂 Yeah, la Rochelle are the best team in Europe, no problem agreeing with that and fair play to them, they're a brilliant team and the only ones who actually gave leinster some proper competition this year. Think you're the one ranting mate given you've been writing whole paragraphs under every Irish teams games on this channel this year, desperately hoping they would lose, so much butt hurt, ah well, better luck next year too, maybe an English team might get somewhere finally! 😂