Connacht players leaving?

siltirocker

Could someone help me out and tell me who's going, because im hearing all sorts of rumours that nearly half the squad are on the out!
And that are funding is being slashed further more!
IRFU's most productive season me'hole.:mad:

Robbo

Farley's definitely gone. Danny Riordan is off to France (possibly La Rochelle) I believe.

Dunne and McCarthy are rumoured to be going which is worrying.

There are a few players coming in. Bernie Upton, Brian Tuohy has been all but confirmed (Cornish Pirates say he's joining Connacht, CB haven't said a thing so far), Mark Melbourne and Dennis Hurley from Munster and Mike McCormish from Otley are all likely.

thomond2006

Robbo wrote: »

Dennis Hurley from Munster and Mike McCormish from Otley are all likely.

One item crossed off the Christmas list.

Zzippy

thomond2006 wrote: »

One item crossed of the Christmas list.

Wish it worked the other way too. Ye could have Troy Nathan... :rolleyes:

Diom

TN won't be renewed hopefully, and with Hurley there we'll have stepped up the quality of the back three. TN out and DH in is a swap I am absolutely happy with.
Not sure that DH would displace the current Duffy, Carr, Bibo combo though. Bibo is the most likely candidate, but he is great defender and solid under the high balls, with good hands. All he lacks is out and out pace.

siltirocker

Robbo wrote: »

There are a few players coming in. Bernie Upton, Brian Tuohy has been all but confirmed (Cornish Pirates say he's joining Connacht, CB haven't said a thing so far), Mark Melbourne and Dennis Hurley from Munster and Mike McCormish from Otley are all likely.

Bernie Upton, , , ,he's feckin' quality, he's been on the All Blacks squad(uncapped)!

Sweet.

eoin2nc

heard a rumour that Carr is leaving......

thomond2006

eoin2nc wrote: »

heard a rumour that Carr is leaving......

Think he signed a one year contract extension like Keatley (correct me if I'm wrong)

[Jackass]

thomond2006 wrote: »

Think he signed a one year contract extension like Keatley (correct me if I'm wrong)

I think you're right! Where would Carr go as a matter of interest? GP surley to a team like Northampton or something.

If he has any sense he should hang around Connacht and play his way into Irish plans.

I know it p!sses off Connacht fans something awful, but no matter what, as long as they are treated as a "development" province, they will keep losing their best players, but lets not forget that if there wasn't a reasonable chance of getting these players back, they never would have been shipped off in the first money. After all, academys are run and funded by provincial teams own coffers first and foremost and subsidised by the IRFU.

All I'm saying is, Leinster will be down to one recognised out-half in the squad next season.......there's no point overpaying some journey man that offers nothing to Irish rugby...

eoin2nc

thomond2006 wrote: »

Think he signed a one year contract extension like Keatley (correct me if I'm wrong)

Yes your right, did a bit of research. The rumour came from a usually reliable source, not anymore by the looks of it!

irishbucsfan

eoin2nc wrote: »

Yes your right, did a bit of research. The rumour came from a usually reliable source, not anymore by the looks of it!

Yeah... hate when that happens... :cool:

MG

[Jackass] wrote: »

I think you're right! Where would Carr go as a matter of interest? QUOTE]

It was in the papers a few weeks ago that he was going to Munster. It was just before the Munster-Connaught match and they said Munster fans would get a look at their new signing.

Sounded to me at the time that that got him mixed up with Felix Jones - I think they just got it wrong.

Robbo

MG wrote: »

[Jackass] wrote: »

I think you're right! Where would Carr go as a matter of interest? QUOTE]

It was in the papers a few weeks ago that he was going to Munster. It was just before the Munster-Connaught match and they said Munster fans would get a look at their new signing.

Sounded to me at the time that that got him mixed up with Felix Jones - I think they just got it wrong.

Yeah, the papers down that way got him confused with Felix Jones. Apparently they all look the same to them.

escobar

[Jackass] wrote: »

I think you're right! Where would Carr go as a matter of interest? GP surley to a team like Northampton or something.

If he has any sense he should hang around Connacht and play his way into Irish plans.

I know it p!sses off Connacht fans something awful, but no matter what, as long as they are treated as a "development" province, they will keep losing their best players, but lets not forget that if there wasn't a reasonable chance of getting these players back, they never would have been shipped off in the first money. After all, academys are run and funded by provincial teams own coffers first and foremost and subsidised by the IRFU.

All I'm saying is, Leinster will be down to one recognised out-half in the squad next season.......there's no point overpaying some journey man that offers nothing to Irish rugby...

The IRFU funds the provinces centrally as far as I know. The provinces don't get their own gate money etc...

It's disgraceful that the IRFU are letting Irish players go . The extra money from the leinster munster match on gate receipts alone would have funded connacht seeing as they only get half of the funding of the other provinces.

I would be seriously annoyed if I was from connacht..It seems like the IRFU are looking to get rid of connnacht as they tried a few years ago only on a long term basis this time...:mad:

Zzippy

escobar wrote: »

The IRFU funds the provinces centrally as far as I know. The provinces don't get their own gate money etc...

It's disgraceful that the IRFU are letting Irish players go . The extra money from the leinster munster match on gate receipts alone would have funded connacht seeing as they only get half of the funding of the other provinces.

I would be seriously annoyed if I was from connacht..It seems like the IRFU are looking to get rid of connnacht as they tried a few years ago only on a long term basis this time...:mad:

The IRFU doesn't get that money though, it goes to the ERC as it was a HEC match. But you're right otherwise, its pretty f***in annoying how Connacht is constantly treated like sh*t by the IRFU.

uRbaN

How was Dunnes season as a matter of ineterst?

escobar

Zzippy wrote: »

The IRFU doesn't get that money though, it goes to the ERC as it was a HEC match. But you're right otherwise, its pretty f***in annoying how Connacht is constantly treated like sh*t by the IRFU.

They might get some of the overall TV revenue, but surely not any of the gate receipts are you sure?

Still can't believe they're letting irish players go.....

Crash

The irfu gets gate receipts from pool matches, and home quarters IIRC - after that it all goes straight to the HEC.

Robbo

uRbaN wrote: »

How was Dunnes season as a matter of ineterst?

For the most part, he'd be part of Bradley's token emptying of the bench on 75 mins. Even in games where Keatley wasn't on form or we could have done with a change of direction at 10, Bradley was loathe to bring him on.

I honestly can't remember him getting more than half an hour in a game all season and that was when Keatley went off with a knock.