Connacht V Gloucester sportsground saturday 10th Dec @1.30pm live on skysports 1

seanin4711

After the last few games I don't know what to say.
We have to turn it around eventually (one would hope).
Maybe start by playing players in their favoured positions and put out our strongest XV!
Lets get at Gloucester and give them a right go!
They are very beatable!
(problem is so are we!)

Please Eric play Matthew Jarvis!!!

GWAN CONNACHT

its_phil

seanin4711 wrote: »

After the last few games I don't know what to say.
We have to turn it around eventually (one would hope).
Maybe start by playing players in their favoured positions and put out our strongest XV!
Lets get at Gloucester and give them a right go!
They are very beatable!
(problem is so are we!)

Please Eric play Matthew Jarvis!!!

GWAN CONNACHT

Of all the smilies to choose from you choose embarrassment before the game has even started..nice selection :rolleyes:

thomond2006

Great to see Griffin and McSharry signing on until 2014!

its_phil

Actually love how you put a title in thomond

ouncer

expect much the same team. simply don't have the depth to change much. likely grif will still be missing and swifty looks doubtful. be great to see jarvis and vainikolo getting a chance but looks like both are not considered in connachts future

cityman 18

Would like to see a team along these lines

Wilkinson Flavin Rogers

McCarthy Swift

Muldoon George Ray

POD

Jarvis

McSharry Griffin

Touhy Duffy TOH


There may be a big performance in them yet. You never know....

siltirocker

cityman 18 wrote: »

Would like to see a team along these lines

Wilkinson Flavin Rogers

McCarthy Swift

Muldoon George Ray

POD

Jarvis

McSharry Griffin

Touhy Duffy TOH


There may be a big performance in them yet. You never know....

Swifty is injured but Gannon in there and you're sound. Don't know about Rogers tbh. But besides that my team too.

porterbelly

Griffin and Swifty are out.

Backline is probably going to be unchanged from last week and we could see Macca slot on for Swifty being the only change in the pack. Don't really agree with that

Podge_irl

What's wrong with Griffin. That's a big loss, for him too.

porterbelly

Podge_irl wrote: »

What's wrong with Griffin. That's a big loss, for him too.

Hamstring injury. Huge loss. Himself and McSharry were really clicking

porterbelly

1. Wilko
2. Reyneke
3. Loughney
4. Naoupu
5. McCarthy
6. Gannon
7. Muldoon
8. Ofisa
9. Murphy
10.O Connor
11.O Halloran
12.McSharry
13.Tonetti
14.McCrea
15.Duffy

That's looking like the team that will be lining out

Subs

16.Flavin
17.Buckley
18.Ah You
19.Kearney
20.McKeon
21.O Donoghue
22.Jarvis
23.Vainikolo

Podge_irl

porterbelly wrote: »

Hamstring injury. Huge loss. Himself and McSharry were really clicking

Seriously poor timing for his international aspirations too. Shame.

freyners

maybe this can refocus them a bit, certainly on our day we could beat them at home, big performance an osing bp ill take but i would love to see a win

Diom

I'm most worried about the occasion getting to them in the same way that it seemed to against Toulouse. They need to get their heads on tight. They needs some leadership.

finatron

just setting up my UPC+ to recored the H-cup games this weeked and its telling me that sky sports 1 is showning Castres v Northampton at 13.00 saturday

Digifriendly

finatron wrote: »

just setting up my UPC+ to recored the H-cup games this weeked and its telling me that sky sports 1 is showning Castres v Northampton at 13.00 saturday

Sky +HD is showing Connacht vs Gloucester with Castres vs Northampton on red button. ERC rugby website also shows Connacht match as being main one so I think it is as these were chosen soon after fixtures were arranged.

Robbo

Wilkinson-Reyenecke-Loghney; McCarthy-Naoupu; Gannon-Muldonn-Ofisa; Murphy-O'Connor; O'Halloran-McSharry-Tonetti-McCrea-Duffy

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

porterbelly

Robbo wrote: »

Wilkinson-Reyenecke-Loghney; McCarthy-Naoupu; Gannon-Muldonn-Ofisa; Murphy-O'Connor; O'Halloran-McSharry-Tonetti-McCrea-Duffy

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

As predicted by yours truly;)

When you're good, you're good

Robbo

porterbelly wrote: »

As predicted by yours truly;)

When you're good, you're good

Fancy meeting up in the Clan Bar beforehand for some anaesthetics, because if this goes down the way I fear, I'll be needing to drink heavily.

porterbelly

Gloucester Rugby:

Olly Morgan; Charlie Sharples, Henry Trinder, Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu, James Simpson-Daniel; Freddie Burns, Rory Lawson; Nick Wood, Scott Lawson, Dario Chistolini; Peter Buxton, Jim Hamilton; Brett Deacon, Andy Hazell, Luke Narraway (capt)

Replacements:

Matias Cortese, Dan Murphy, Rupert Harden, Will James, Akapusi Qera, Nick Runciman, Tim Taylor, Jonny May

freyners

jarvis on bench, nikora injured or what?

porterbelly

Very tasty Gloucester backline. We must win the war of attrition up front, minus 2 of our hardest forwards in Swifty and Concrete. That being said, it's an average enough Gloucester pack and it should hold no fears.

We have to target their lineout. Gannon has been superb there and he's very athletic and with Macca back that's 2 very good operators. Mul and George are well capable as well, that's if we can lift George!

thomond2006

Niall O'Connor at 10 again....

At least Fa'fili has been booted out of the team.

CIARAN_BOYLE

freyners wrote: »

jarvis on bench, nikora injured or what?

starting for the As

freyners

cant understand this outhalf selection policy nikora starts the first two, now noc with nikora out of the team

Zzippy

What the hell did Jarvis do to piss off Elwood? We were winning games earlier in the season when he was starting, he was playing AIL then for the last few weeks and is only getting back in the matchday squad now...
Hope he gets a good run tomorrow cos I was impressed with him in the first few games... NOC has been hopeless, especially against Treviso last week, yet he still gets the nod :rolleyes:

Reckon we should do well off set piece tomorrow, we should be able to pinch a few of their lineouts with Macca and Gannon in. Swifty is a big loss around the park but great to have Macca back, need a big game from him tomorrow.

O'Connells before/after for a beverage or two methinks...

porterbelly

You'd always forget Andrew Browne is still missing, huge loss for us throughout the season. Concrete and Swifty now as well. With those 3 and a fitter George we'd have the makings of a very good back 5 provided they were all played in their right positions

profitius

The selection policy at 10 is very strange. He jumps from one to another giving none of them the run of games they need.

twomint

Match at www.justin.tv/twomintpork1 from 1300 GMT for those abroad / Skyless

freyners

twomint wrote: »

Match at www.justin.tv/twomintpork1 from 1300 GMT for those abroad / Skyless

two mint you legend

freyners

C'mon CONNACHT:D:D

thomond2006

Samoa's Twitter celeb starting for Gloucester!

thomond2006

ah here, Scottish ref....

Mushy

Only have sky go on the laptop. Does anyone know how to watch red button games on this? Or will it just be the stream Ive to settle for?

thomond2006

Good start from Connacht!

thomond2006

Strange, the back five forwards aren't lining out as announced. Gannon is at lock, Muldoon at 6, Ofisa at 7 with Nauopu at 8.

freyners

very good start from all, nice turnover by reynecke and mcsharry introduced burns well there

thomond2006

0-3, Burns penalty.

freyners

3-0 glaws,


great turnover by connacht there

Diabhal Beag

Ugh

freyners

great presuure by wilko, penalty connacht

missed by NOC:(

thomond2006

NOC misses an easy kick...

Mushy

Bad miss for Connaught there.

freyners

were executing the choke tackle very well

thomond2006

freyners wrote: »

were executing the choke tackle very well

Aye, that's 2 or 3 now.

Diabhal Beag

Burns could make NOC look very bad if he gets this

thomond2006

Burns misses.

freyners

penalty glaws in the scrum, not sure why it was given but wilko dropped his bind

missed anyways

freyners

stupid by burns, muldoon gobbled him up

lineout conn in glaws 22

thomond2006

0-6 now.

Connacht lineout on the Gloucester 22, they need a score to settle down.

edit: and they lose it.

Minstrel27

Mushy wrote: »

Only have sky go on the laptop. Does anyone know how to watch red button games on this? Or will it just be the stream Ive to settle for?

Sky Sports Extra on Sky Go is showing it. It's not on the main channel list but you can get to it by going to 499 using the search and scan banner. You can also watch it here http://www.skysports.com/eventscentre