Simon Zebo adds insult to injury by brutally trolling Leinster and Rob Kearney after shock loss to Northampton Saints
SIMON ZEBO got one last dig in following Leinster's shock defeat to the Northampton Saints in the Champions Cup semi-finals.
The former
star
had backed the English club to win by five prior to kick-off at the
Aviva
Stadium.
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Leinster suffered a shock loss to Northampton on Saturday
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Simon Zebo poked fun at the province
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In doing so, he trolled former Ireland teammate Rob Kearney
So
He did so by sharing a
video
of himself reacting to the result to his
Zebo followed this with another video of him reacting to former international teammate Rob Kearney's analysis on Premier Sports.
He accompanied this with a cutaway to himself doing a mock crying face.
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Defeat on Saturday represented another episode of pain in the Investec
Leo
Cullen's men.
Among the various talking points after the game was Cullen's decision not to start
Both were introduced as substitutes but it was too little, too late, with
Cullen, however, insisted
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Cullen said:' I will look back on lots of different things, over the course of the
next
few weeks.
'And, yes, when you don't win a game, particularly in a semi-final, everyone is going to second-guess everything.
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'Listen, Jordie brought huge impact, and that is what we wanted from him, similar with Jack Conan, as well, and a lot of other players that were on the bench.
'You look at us at the end of the game - we looked like a strong team, attacking the game. There's probably bits before where we weren't quite accurate enough. But I don't have regrets about that plan, specifically.'
Nor did he take issue with the decision to twice go for a try, rather than kick for goal and force extra-time, the second made in the knowledge that
Northampton
would be down a man for at least part of it.
Cullen said: 'I absolutely back it, yeah.
'It's important, the players have a feel on the field, and they're all-in there. They backed their bravery to go and win the game. It doesn't come off, but everyone is a genius in hindsight.
'In the moment, these guys fancied it, and I'd fancy them 100 percent.'
And
He said: 'The first thing is Northampton were excellent I thought. We sat here on Friday talking about how strong Northampton are in terms of some of their attacking threats and what they are capable of doing.
'I think we saw that in lots of different parts of the game. We were maybe inaccurate in stages in the first half. I thought Northampton were very good in terms of some of their counterattack and they hit us on the counter a couple of times with some sucker-punch tries
'Tommy Freeman, I thought he was excellent in terms of his speed, the finish, and scores his hat-trick in the first half.
'Not many people were giving Northampton a chance coming into the game. Thay come away with a famous victory and unfortunately, it's at our expense.
'Some of the things they executed, how clinical they were, and even they came up with a way, to hold us out at the end, I'm not sure how they managed to do it but they managed to do it.
'It's a pretty horrific feeling for the group right now.'
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