Connacht vs Cardiff *SPOILERS PRESENT*

Stev_o

29-0 with 32 minutes gone this could be a 50+ hammering again for poor Connacht have to feel bad for them.

Stev_o

Try number 5 for Cardiff they are waltzing their way through Connacht's defence

Inquitus

36-0 15 v 14 for 10 mins, not even halftime yet

sickpuppy

I dont know who to feel more sorry for the fans or the players horrible stuff
absolute annialation.

Inquitus

41-0

Whats the record humping in the ML?

I know we really hockied some of the old Welsh teams prior to regionalisation!

Stev_o

Try 6. Question is will Cardiff put 100 on them

Sabre0001

Can they implement a mercy rule?!?! This is shocking stuff - terrible errors...

Stev_o

Try 7

Inquitus

50 before HT, any ideas on the record beating in the Celtic League?

Inquitus

46-0 Double movement I think

Climate Expert

Connact are just so bad. Who said they were going to do something good this season?

The one thing they always had was the ability to keep a game close but I saw them pre season and their defense has lost it.

Stev_o

What the hell can a coach say to their team at HT when they are being beating by 50 points to nothing. You gotta feel bad for the players.

anonymous_joe

I felt sad and changed channel.

dreamer_ire

Another one... there is no Connaught defence. God love them tomorrow, this will hurt

chris85

this is a massacre, stop the madness.

The defence is awful from connacht, even there offence is shocking allowing cardiff to turnover easy ball.

I think they may get the 100.

ironingbored

Johnny O'Connor getting the ball ripped from him by a 10. Shocking. Connaught really should be given more money. this cannot be good for young players.

Zzippy

Had to stop watching for a while, was too painful. Slightly surprised to turn back to it and Cardiff only got one more try. Connacht were truly awful tonight. WTF is Bradley doing with that team?

Hennybug

As a Connacht supporter for years i've totally lost heart Since Bradley won't do the decent thing and resign the IRFU have to step in and appoint a new coach - otherwise they may as well just shut us down completely

[Jackass]

I think this is the lowest point Connacht have ever reached. I really feel for them and their fans. It is obvious to everybody that Bradley should be gone. They deserved a new coach for this season and I think it's already too late, I'm not sure any team can come back into a season after a start like this.

It's not right what the IRFU are doing, I'm surprised I didn't try throwing a towel through my TV screen in the vein hope it would somehow make it onto the pitch and they would call it off....it was like watching a seasoned athlete beat the sh*t out of a seven year old, horrible stuff.

To put young players into that sort of enviornment is shocking and is more likely to make players question themselves about going back to college and getting a "real job" than trying to make it in a sport where teams can do this to you.

If there is any justice : Bradley out and give Connacht a fair chance - invest in them.

leeroybrown

I don't know what to say. I expected us to have a hard time against them as usual as they are a big physical side but I also expected to have some semblance of a defensive line and to make some tackles.

I was sending text message updates to another season ticket holder who wasn't able to watch the game. Another 160 characters of despair each time. I think he got the better deal in missing this one.

Kalashnikov_Kid

Well at least you all had the luxury of changin channels, I was standin in the middle of the north terrace with my Irish jersey on display

In all fairness, I dont think it would have been as bad if they didnt have such an inexperienced back 3 and if Duffy, Danny Riordain and Keith Matthews had been playin. Because Mel Deane was shockingly bad in defence, and thought that the new guy at 11 was totally out of his depth.

There was a period of madness during the first half where they conceded tries out wide due to mistakes from the back 3, and generally poor defence from the backs in general.

Ok they are underfunded, but they are still meant to be professional players. Connacht crumbled in the first half in a totally unacceptable manner. Like I was standing there looking at their body language. Even after the second try heads started dropping. Little sign of positive communication and motivation from then on so they really have themselves to blame in many respects.

And sure O'Connor and Andy Dunne have both been around for a while, yet some of their skill displays this evening were nothing short of appalling.

On a positive note, the second half was a considerable improvement. Dunne and Fionn Carr looked sharp in attack at least. It could really have been a lot worse, but still unacceptable in my opinion. No attacking imagination, lack of ambition. So yeah think the coaching regime needs a major shakeup. I guess thats where alot of tonights problems ultimately stems from.

[Jackass]

It's a shame as well that Dragons and Glasgow have started quite well and Edinburgh are probably on the fringe of the "big 5" in ML, but they are low in the table as they have a large amount of players to come back, so it looks like again this season, 2 Irish teams will prop up the table and battle it out for second last place. Not on. Although Williams deserves at least a full season to get the Ulster act together, Bradley has had a disgraceful amount of time - If the condition Connacht Rugby was in when he took over was compared to now - and if it was put in the context of a major, serious company, he would have been out the door at least 2 years ago.

The longer they leave it, the harder it will be to pull back from it, and I don't think the Rugby public are willing to accept anything other than a professional set-up in Connacht and continued involvement in the ML, so unless they're trying to make it look so bad that we'll be begging them to shut Connacht down for the sake of the children, I don't know, but that would raise a whole new host of problems to Irish rugby, not least losing players permanently to England, Scotland, Wales & France

Inspector Coptoor

58-0
biggest beating in the history of the Magners/Celtic league

and they did so well beating Glasgow last week

they dont travel well tho, as a rule

barnesd

Liam Henners257 wrote: »

58-0
biggest beating in the history of the Magners/Celtic league

and they did so well beating Glasgow last week

they dont travel well tho, as a rule

It's not actually, Connacht beat Caerphilly 62-0 about 7 years ago.

il gatto

A bit heavy on the criticism people. Nobody went to town on Edinburgh when they lost by 46 points to Lenster and when Dragons lost by 44 to Munster.
Yes. It was the worst performance they've put in for ages and yes, it's the worst of the season so far, but the comparisons here are unfair. It's easy to mix your metaphors with your similiaes when the team that you support (or to be more precise, the team which represents you and has your province on it's shirt) never collapses like that and drags your home's name through the dirt. I'm angry at that performance, I'm angry with Bradley, I'm angry with Connacht management and I'm angry with the IRFU, but like someone said, this sets it up lovely to knock it on the head. People need to express more anger and less defeatism or the f@ckers who tried to close us down when we were actually doing well, will come out of the woodwork and pull the plug.
Bradley out. Now. Why should we give him a job and a wage just because nobody else would have him? Good scrum half. Sh1t coach. Nothing personal. Seems like a sound enough guy, but just p1ss off now Michael. Please.

Nukem

I think it shows the gulf between the bigger teams.
Rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Really like to see Connacht do well, tis a shame really:(

Inspector Coptoor

barnesd wrote: »

It's not actually, Connacht beat Caerphilly 62-0 about 7 years ago.

Caerphilly arent a welsh province tho............

Inquitus

Liam Henners257 wrote: »

Caerphilly arent a welsh province tho............

Aye but they still took part in the Celtic League pre Welsh regionalistion, so when asking whats the biggest CL hammering the answer 62-0 against Caerphilly holds water. I also remember Leinster and Munster putting up some cricket scores against the Welsh Clubs, pretty much all of them bar Llanelli were utter ****e and thats why we (the irish) won the CL for the 1st 2 years it ran, before Wales regionalised.

RuggieBear

yep. ebbw vale and caerphilly were in particular extremely poor


have look at the scores the irish teams put up against the welsh:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/welsh/3796231.stm

final pool standings
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/statistics/1497281.stm

Inquitus

It's looking very bad for Connacht again, Dragons seem to have found some form from nowhere and are piling the league points on, it looks like it's going to be a shootout between Ulster and Connacht for the last HC Spot.

Irish rugby is ideally looking to get 4 teams in the HC, so despite Munster and Leinsters successes the domestic provincial game is taking a step backwards atm.

leeroybrown

To put a slightly more positive note on this situation, after the Ospreys v. Ulster result comes in we still find ourselves ahead by a point despite a sub-professional level of play at times. If the coaching team can give the players the direction (and kick in the arse) they need and remind them that we're actually still in a competitive position from a HEC qualification point of view then maybe we can regain some of the spirit and commitment that we've typically had and make another push at it.

il gatto

I feel bad for Ulster, but I suppose it's a bit of a reprieve for Connacht. Turns out we won't be the only Irish province to totally embarrass ourselves this season. It's time the IRFU took a close look at things. Connacht and Ulster have gone backwards massively in the last 3-4 years. I think Ulster should have been helped to keep the likes of Bowe and Neil Best at the club. They might have left anyway, but if Ulster were thriving, they'd probably have stayed.

leeroybrown

Likewise. Much as I'd like Connacht to finish above them, I'd prefer if it was by way of us catching up with them and not them falling apart. It must really have hurt last night with Bowe scoring the BP try against them.

Goodluck2me

anyone know where I could see the try's from the Glasgow game? cherers

Zzippy

goodluck2me wrote: »

anyone know where I could see the try's from the Glasgow game? cherers

Sorry no idea, but why would you want to?!! It was a horror show, you'd be hiding behind the sofa by the end...

pucan

Zzippy wrote: »

Originally Posted by goodluck2me
anyone know where I could see the try's from the Glasgow game? cherers

Sorry no idea, but why would you want to?!! It was a horror show, you'd be hiding behind the sofa by the end...

Glasgow game. Connacht won.

Robbo

goodluck2me wrote: »

anyone know where I could see the try's from the Glasgow game? cherers

Go to the Connacht site and sign up for Connacht TV. They have highlights of the home games.

Watching Fionn Carr in action there was enough to keep me deluding myself that this season will be different.

Zzippy

pucan wrote: »

Glasgow game. Connacht won.

Oops!

il gatto

Turns out 3 out of 4 Irish provinces couldn't score a single point this past weekend. Maybe now the IRFU will wake up.