Rugby Daily | Were Cullen's fiery words aimed at fans? How the TMO *actually* works
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off the balls rugby daily with bank of ireland a proud sponsor of connacht leinster munster and ulster rugby never stop competing you're very welcome to wednesday's rugby daily i'm cameron hill now coming up for you today a new contract for ireland star hugo keenan brian o'driscoll explains how the tmo actually works for big games and another wales legend calls time on his playing career But first up today, Leinster and the IRFU confirmed yesterday that Hugo Keenan has signed on for another two years. The full-back has put pen to a contract extension running until the summer of 2028. Keenan has earned 46 senior caps for Ireland since his debut back in October of 2020, having moved back to Union after a few seasons with the Ireland Sevens.
He's missed most of this season with a couple of injuries, so he required surgery on a hip issue picked up during last summer's Lions Tour of Australia and had been gearing up for a return to Ireland duty in the Six Nations before injuring his hand in their training camp in Portugal and missing the entire championship. He's hit the ground running since making his comeback from that latest issue, however, he's scored three tries in his five appearances for Leinster this term. Keenan played the full 80 in Leinster's semi-final win over Toulon in the Investec Champions Cup at the weekend. Three-time winner Brian O'Driscoll joined Owen Cheyhan on last night's off the ball and they discussed the comments by head coach Leo Cullen after the game in which he accused onlookers of putting the boot into his team.
Who do you think he's speaking to on Saturday in particular?
Is it just a set of people in the room just to... the media who will be disseminating those quotes? No, I think he's probably thinking to some supporter base as well. I don't think he's speaking to his team because I think they've battened down the hatches and they've probably felt a little bit more alone this year or the last couple of years. It's kind of them against the world.
What contract extension did Hugo Keenan sign?
I think previously, Leinster would have had a lot of love from neutrals. I think that... that vanished a couple of years ago, maybe with not being able to get it done in the finals. And I think their dominance, even though it wasn't dominant in trophies, almost annoyed and irked and irritated people. Them having so many internationals in their setup almost felt unfair to people, even though there was no rationale behind that unfairness. It was misplaced. I think he probably was speaking to the media about, you know, the extra scrutiny they do get comparatively. But they're not like the other provinces. They're vastly different. The other provinces would love to be in a position to be getting that level of criticism because of the quality of their play, because of their being in the business end of the season year on year.
Whereas Leinster are a lone wolf. They're out on their own. And I think they have... The dog in them now... I just sense that there's a desperation to them and be careful of the desperate team.
Brian also gave his thoughts on the controversy surrounding Bordeaux's win in the other last four clash on Sunday. So Yannick Brous' side were 38 points to 26 winners at home to Johan van Graan's Bath. But after the game, van Graan criticised the host broadcasters for not allowing the officiating team to review a number of incidents of potential foul play. Then on Monday, said broadcaster France Television offered a strong rebuttal of the criticism, claiming that it is the referee who's in charge of the pictures they're shown. Brian offered a really insightful explainer on how exactly the TMO works alongside the host broadcaster.
Prem rugby and in Champions Cup rugby, he's sitting in the Premier Sports slash TNT van, the TMO.
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