aironi v connacht stadio zaffanella saturday 15.00 live on tg4

seanin4711

here we go again!
best xv we can have out and really should bring home the spoils.
here's hoping.

15 Gavin Duffy
14 Fetu’u Vainikolo
13 Kyle Tonetti
12 Dave McSharry
11 Tiernan O’Halloran
10 Mattew Jarvis
09 Frank Murphy
01 Brett Wilkinson
02 Adrian Flavin
03 Dylan Rogers
04 Michael Swift
05 Mike McCarthy
06 Mick Kearney
07 John Muldoon
08 George Naoupu
16 Ethienne Reynecke
17 Denis Buckley
18 Stewart Maguire
19 Eoin McKeon
20 Ray Ofisa
21 Paul O’Donohoe
22 Niall O’Connor
23 Henry Fa’afili

Bogger77

Hope Jarvis brings his kicking boots, he hadn't them on against Leinster

cityman 18

Fair play to TG4 for showing this game. Its a massive game in our season, the Aironi team is not a bad team and they look to have a string enough bench as well. Having said that id be confident of a victory tomorrow. Although we've lost 12 on the trot the performances have not been that bad. We've been completive in most games and should of won about 5 of those games (at least). If Connacht show up tomorrow we'll get the win.

cityman 18

seanin4711 wrote: »

here we go again!
best xv we can have out and really should bring home the spoils.
here's hoping.

15 Gavin Duffy
14 Fetu’u Vainikolo
13 Kyle Tonetti
12 Dave McSharry
11 Tiernan O’Halloran
10 Mattew Jarvis
09 Frank Murphy
01 Brett Wilkinson
02 Adrian Flavin
03 Dylan Rogers
04 Michael Swift
05 Mike McCarthy
06 Mick Kearney
07 John Muldoon
08 George Naoupu
16 Ethienne Reynecke
17 Denis Buckley
18 Stewart Maguire
19 Eoin McKeon
20 Ray Ofisa
21 Paul O’Donohoe
22 Niall O’Connor
23 Henry Fa’afili

by the way where is McCrea? i would have him ahead of Vainikolo.

justsomebloke

cityman 18 wrote: »

Fair play to TG4 for showing this game.

I think a bigger fair play goes to RAI in Italy for taking up the rights to the Rabo mid season so that we get to now watch the games here

porterbelly

cityman 18 wrote: »

by the way where is McCrea? i would have him ahead of Vainikolo.

Injured

thomond2006

Is Griffin injured/rested?

Also, Jarvis selected ahead of NOC!

Zzippy

Griffin has a hamstring injury again. Great to see Jarvis get the nod, while his placekicking seems about as bad as NOC's at least he can get a backline moving and doesn't run sideways with the ball before he passes.

wp_rathead

Great to see Swifty back, nice looking backrow with Kearney, Muldoon and George (Although Johnny be big miss).
That is pretty much the strongest backline he have at the moment (bar Griffin for Tonetti) so I'm hopful of a result (although Aironi did beat Treviso couple weeks ago so they be no pushovers at all at all- im sure the Italians will have targeted this game as a "must win")
Fantastic to see Jarvis still in team aswell. when it comes to place kicking- why not give Duffy a go? I remember him taking a few pens for Ireland on a tour to Argentina couple years back unless my mind is mistaken me. Surely he can't be much worse than what we have?

Robbo

I wonder has Tonetti been place kicking this week as Plan B? Apparently there's a gale flowing over there at the moment.

What Jarvis offers in terms of running the backs and picking his passes is light years ahead of NOC. Moreover, we already know that there isn't much development left in NOC; there's plenty more to come with Jarvis.

seanin4711

thomond2006 wrote: »

Is Griffin injured/rested?

Also, Jarvis selected ahead of NOC!

Great to see jarvis get the nod,now lets hope he grabs it with both hands!
He got thrown in at the last minute last week now knows upfront that he is starting at 10!
no harm having NOC on the bench make him a bit hungrier for the game!
IF jarvis had NOC's kick ratio and NOC had Jarvis' gameplay we would have two cracking 10's

anyways vainikolo is a unknown quantity even anytime i seen him he seems to be all over the place!
like a lad who doesnt train with the squad but shows up on game day and not sure what he is supposed to be doing!
prove me wrong FETZ!!!

BTW did I say I am delighted Jarvis got the nod???

GWAN CONNACHT!!!!

porterbelly

We will need someone to have brought their kicking boots.

Orquera's stats are fairly impressive, he's scored 12 of his last 13 place kicks

seanin4711

porterbelly wrote: »

We will need someone to have brought their kicking boots.

Orquera's stats are fairly impressive, he's scored 12 of his last 13 place kicks

we better be on our best behaviour so.
who is the ref btw?

danthefan

I have barely ever seen him play being honest, what's the story with Jarvis? What age is he roughly and what sort of OH is he? I know he's Irish qualified, any chance he'll be an option in the coming years?

Dave Van Ronk

What time exactly is kickoff?

The RTE, Connacht rugby & RaboDirect websites all say 16:35 whereas my friend reckons it's 15.35.

porterbelly

Dave Van Ronk wrote: »

What time exactly is kickoff?

The RTE, Connacht rugby & RaboDirect websites all say 16:35 whereas my friend reckons it's 15.35.

Correct 15.35

lologram

Dave Van Ronk wrote: »

What time exactly is kickoff?

The RTE, Connacht rugby & RaboDirect websites all say 16:35 whereas my friend reckons it's 15.35.

Pro12 website says all kickoffs are local time, which makes that 16:35 their time, 15:35 our time. TG4 starting coverage at 15:15.

irishbucsfan

What do you think guys, will TG4 geoblock the game or can I watch it from Engerland?

lologram

irishbucsfan wrote: »

What do you think guys, will TG4 geoblock the game or can I watch it from Engerland?

I've tried to watch games on TG4 from England and they blocked it. The TG4 player mysteriously stopped working around game time.

Robbo

danthefan wrote: »

I have barely ever seen him play being honest, what's the story with Jarvis? What age is he roughly and what sort of OH is he? I know he's Irish qualified, any chance he'll be an option in the coming years?

He's 21 and, after a lengthy hoo-hah, will be Irish qualified despite playing u-20 for Wales.

I'd liken him to early Sexton in that he's taller and skinnier than you'd think, he likes to run the ball himself and his passing gets the backs moving lively. He's put in some big kicks from hand. Also like early Sexton, he's having a bit of a mare with his place kicking at the moment.

This is Connacht's most important away game of the season. Everyone know's the away games are the points swings that teams need. This is definitely the "target" away game, and I'm hoping we see another good performance from Jarvis in open play, giving that young backline plenty of space to operate in.

Will be a tough game.

Robbo

seanin4711 wrote: »

we better be on our best behaviour so.
who is the ref btw?

Referee: Andrew McMenemy, (SRU, 10th competition game)


That would be below our League average (13 games) in terms of Ref Experienceosity.

CatFromHue

Robbo wrote: »

Referee: Andrew McMenemy, (SRU, 10th competition game)


That would be below our League average (13 games) in terms of Ref Experienceosity.

Marius Mitrea is in charge of the Leinster v Cardiff game. This is his fourth competitive game. http://www.rabodirectpro12.com/matchcentre/11988.php

Considering Leinster v Cardiff is first v sixth you can't say it's just the lower placed teams get inexperienced refs.

Zzippy

CatFromHue wrote: »

Marius Mitrea is in charge of the Leinster v Cardiff game. This is his fourth competitive game. http://www.rabodirectpro12.com/matchcentre/11988.php

Considering Leinster v Cardiff is first v sixth you can't say it's just the lower placed teams get inexperienced refs.

His very first game was a Connacht match.
Robbo never said it was just the lower placed teams who get inexperienced refs, but on average the refs we get are much less experienced than the likes of Munster, he posted a league table before where Connacht averaged refs with 12 games where Munster averaged refs with 26 games (IIRC).

seanin4711

Deleted User wrote: »

This is Connacht's most important away game of the season. Everyone know's the away games are the points swings that teams need. This is definitely the "target" away game, and I'm hoping we see another good performance from Jarvis in open play, giving that young backline plenty of space to operate in.

Will be a tough game.

aironi will be targeting this game also,like all the advanced warning of last seasons game,we still fell flat.

irishbucsfan

Wonder if I'll be able to watch it on RAI.tv

wp_rathead

Nothing much to add to this thread apart from

C'MON CONNACHT!

CatFromHue

Zzippy wrote: »

His very first game was a Connacht match.
Robbo never said it was just the lower placed teams who get inexperienced refs, but on average the refs we get are much less experienced than the likes of Munster, he posted a league table before where Connacht averaged refs with 12 games where Munster averaged refs with 26 games (IIRC).

His second one was a Leinster game :P

Just cos I'm a bit of a stato I worked out that the average amount of games the ref for Leinster games has is 20.2 compared to 14.1 for Connacht games. Also Leinster have had 4 games where the ref had less than 10 games whereas Connacht have had 6.

So on average Connacht get refs 70% as experienced as Leinster get or 30% less experienced depending on how you want to word it.

Considering where Leinster and Connacht are and the difference in our average attendances I don't think the difference in the refs experience is that big.

OldRio

Air 9 Conn 0

Too many mistakes

stiffler123

This is depressing so far:(

OldRio

What the hell was that???
Basic errors.
Feck this I'm going outside to kick the dog.

JustinDee

CatFromHue wrote: »

Considering where Leinster and Connacht are and the difference in our average attendances I don't think the difference in the refs experience is that big.

Correctimundo.

As for the game, the ref is certainly not responsible for Connacht ignoring gaps in midfield or their insistance on hit-ups instead of passing at gain line. If you're going to go bish-bosh, you'll require an offload at a minimum.

Poor so far.

evil_seed

Connacht are ****e and don't deserve a thing from this game.

So many mistakes :mad::(:o

EmeraldNK

evil_seed wrote: »

Connacht are ****e and don't deserve a thing from this game.

So many mistakes :mad::(:o

What ya reckon, 9-7 at half time and a second half to make up for it? :P

Edit: Nope, didn't think so!

JustinDee

One way to combat negative opponents is to stop kicking the bloody ball back to them!

Going to watch cricket highlights instead.

seanin4711

we are all over the place,shocking.making aironi look like Toulouse.

porterbelly

We are absoloutley appalling, knock ons all sides

However, that red Scottish **** is doing is no favours.

Yellow card for Rogers when the ball pops out of the ruck straight away to the scrum half? You're having a ****ing laugh. Some of the penalties have been pretty harsh as well.

O halloran is having a nightmare. We just need to be patient in attack and wait for the mistake to come instead of rushing everything. Very poor though, thought we'd turned a corner

Zzippy

Need to calm down big time in the second half, trying to do too much with the ball and making silly errors, trying over-ambitious passes resulting in knock ons and turnovers. Just get the basics right and this Aironi team are there for the taking. Ref hasn't been great, that yellow card was very harsh but we have to play him...
George having a good game so far, some good carries. Someone just needs to take O'Halloran aside and tell him to relax and concentrate on the basics, he's a far better player than that...

irishbucsfan

What's going on in the game?

cityman 18

This is very poor stuff so far, TOH is having a nightmare, big fan of his but its not working for him today. Connacht need to take there time and the chances will appear. We can't be as bad in the second half. Can we?

JustinDee

irishbucsfan wrote: »

What's going on in the game?

Brainfart after brainfart, backed up by some pretty uninspirational decision-making and ill-discipline.
Also some woeful camerawork.

thomond2006

Poor from Duffy in defence.

EmeraldNK

Looks like more of the same from this half, I'm afraid... packed quite a lot of mistakes into the last 3 minutes alone, and now out on the full from the restart... not good, not good at all. :mad:

thomond2006

restart on the full...jaysus

CatFromHue

porterbelly wrote: »

However, that red Scottish **** is doing is no favours.

Yellow card for Rogers when the ball pops out of the ruck straight away to the scrum half? You're having a ****ing laugh. Some of the penalties have been pretty harsh as well.

Rodgers made no effort to roll away, he knew exactly what he was doing, and the ball didn't come straight out. The scrum half had to go digging for it. Considering the position in the field, and that if Aironi had gotten quick ball they could have done real damage.

It was a pretty valid yellow if you ask me.

profitius

Connacht are wrecked. Not surprising when they're playing basically the same team every week.

thomond2006

17-3, Jarvis penalty.

thomond2006

NOC on to save the day!

EmeraldNK

thomond2006 wrote: »

17-3, Jarvis penalty.

20-3 now. Points handed right back.

Samich

that was a good chance connacht. bad pass to him and then the knock on. Just not good enough.

JustinDee

profitius wrote: »

Connacht are wrecked. Not surprising when they're playing basically the same team every week.

So are Aironi.