Edinburgh V Connacht murrayfield fri 12th @7.30pm April Not on tv (Yet again)

seanin4711

Fisrt we get a ref on his debut then this doesnt make it to TV,sucks!
live on GBFM I imagine.

UPDATE NOT ON GBFM
on BBC Scotland 810MW


Swift returns for Edinburgh clash

Connacht Rugby travel to Scotland to take on Edinburgh Rugby at Murrayfield tomorrow night and Head Coach Eric Elwood has named his side.

There is only one change to the starting XV announced to face Benetton Treviso in the last round and that change comes up front with the return from injury of lock Michael Swift. Connacht’s highest capped player who missed out on the previous two games will join Ireland international Mike McCarthy in the second row.

There’s a reshuffle in the back row as Mick Kearney moves to number 6 and John Muldoon, who earns his 195th Connacht cap tomorrow, is named at number 7.

On the bench, props Rodney Ah You and JP Cooney as well as flanker Mata Fifita are included in the forwards’ replacements. All three featured for the Connacht Eagles in last Saturday’s challenge game against Russian side Enisei STM and Ah You and Fifita both touched down for tries.

With the Connacht v Treviso fixture rearranged for April 26th, there are now four games left to play in the RaboDirect PRO12, and therefore a maximum of 20 match points left to play for. And so, the push for a best ever finish in the league will intensify over the final weeks.

Earlier in the week, Head Coach Eric Elwood spoke about the importance of this week’s game:

“Edinburgh is a huge game for us and it is still our intention to better last year’s finish in the league.

“We have Treviso to play away and we’ve two tough games to finish in Ulster and Glasgow who are in the top four. But we still have a hell of a lot to play for in those four games. There are a lot of things still in our control. We are still looking for the betterment and that improvement year on year. And that’s very much a target in our sights. It starts this weekend now in Edinburgh.”

Connacht XV

15. Robbie Henshaw
14. Danie Poolman
13. Eoin Griffin
12. Brian Murphy
11. Gavin Duffy (captain)
10. Dan Parks
9. Kieran Marmion

1. Brett Wilkinson
2. Adrian Flavin
3. Ronan Loughney
4. Michael Swift
5. Mike McCarthy
6. Mick Kearney
7. John Muldoon
8. George Naoupu

Replacements: Ethienne Reynecke, Rodney Ah You, JP Cooney, Andrew Browne, Mata Fifita, Paul O’Donohoe, Miah Nikora, Fetu’u Vainikolo

Unavailable due to injury: Denis Buckley, Willie Faloon, Eoghan Grace, Jason Harris-Wright, Eoin McKeon, Dave McSharry, Frank Murphy, Dave Nolan, Kyle Tonetti, Nathan White.

At Murrayfield, 7.30pm.
Referee: Rhys Thomas (WRU, 1st competition game)
Assistant Referees: Peter Allan, TBC (both SRU)
Citing Commissioner: John Kirk (SRU)

This game will not be televised. Follow Connacht Rugby on Facebook or @ConnachtRugby on Twitter for live match updates.

from www.connachtrugby.ie

Edinburgh
he arrival of interim coaches Stevie Scott and Duncan Hodge, has brought back-to-back wins over Ulster and Zebre, with the game against the Galway men also offering the chance to complete a second successive home and away double in as many rounds.
The club edged their opponents at the Sportsground in December (28-27) and, having completed a double over Zebre before last week's league break, the side are keen to continue their winning ways.

Scott declared: "I've always said that that there are a lot of good players at this club so, for us, it's about getting consistency.

"That's the challenge of tomorrow night. We need to back up what we did against Ulster, where we saw a good response to this new coaching team, and also from the Zebre match, where we showed a lot of guts to grind out the win.

"We've worked hard and played a lot of good rugby in these games, and have been building a lot of spirit in the squad. We now need to take that forward.

"We need to treat our home games as a big advantage to us. We've the backing of our home fans, it's a big pitch and the ground is quick and hard, which suits our players."

Scott has named the same back division that defeated Zebre in Italy and has made three changes to the pack, of which two are enforced: Hamish Watson, Geoff Cross and Grant Gilchrist replace Ross Rennie (who sustained a shoulder against Zebre), Willem Nel (family bereavement) and Perry Parker, who starts on the bench.

Edinburgh Rugby team to play Connacht at Murrayfield Stadium on Friday 12 April (kick-off 7.30pm)

15 Greig Tonks

14 Lee Jones
13 Matt Scott
12 Ben Atiga
11 Tim Visser

10 Piers Francis
9 Greig Laidlaw CAPTAIN

1 Allan Jacobsen
2 Ross Ford
3 Geoff Cross
4 Grant Gilchrist
5 Sean Cox
6 Stuart McInally
7 Hamish Watson
8 Netani Talei

Substitutes
16 Steve Lawrie
17 Robin Hislop
18 John Yapp
19 Perry Parker
20 Robert McAlpine
21 Sean Kennedy
22 Harry Leonard
23 Tom Brown

Players unavailable: Alex Allan (ankle), Ben Cairns (knee), Nick De Luca (suspended), David Denton (knee), Jamie Farndale (leg), Roddy Grant (wrist), Sam Hidalgo-Clyne (ankle), James King (groin), Chris Leck (shoulder), Willem Nel (family bereavement) Lewis Niven (bicep), Steven Turnbull (knee), Sep Visser (international duty), Alun Walker (hamstring), Izak van der Westhuizen (ankle).


My two cents:
I hope we can beat them but missing Big Willie and Mcsharry in the centre,
I think a LBP is where we are going to be.
Hope i am wrong!

blackhound

0-3 Parks with a penalty

blackhound

3-3

blackhound

It seems Edinburgh are dominating in the scrum.

blackhound

6-3 Laidlaw converts the penalty awarded after a scrum

freyners

9-3

seanin4711

giving away penalties and wait for the yellow cards coming.
love to know our disciplinary record cannot be that good.
only one winner here!

blackhound

Yet another penalty 12-3

its_phil

12-10

Mick Kearney try

seanin4711

its_phil wrote: »

12-10

Mick Kearney try

now stop the penalties FFS!

blackhound

Parks sin binned deliberate knock on

Laidlaw extends 15-10

thomond2006

15-10 now

its_phil

Duffy steps up and scores 3

15-13

its_phil

Connacht winning

15-16

blackhound

Back to full strength and Parks converts for the lead
15-16

blackhound

15-19 now keep it up lads no more soft penalties

its_phil

15-19..

Reynecke on for Flavin.. Don't f*** this up Ethienne

blackhound

Loughney sin-binned now :mad:

its_phil

blackhound wrote: »

Loughney sin-binned now :mad:

Had a feeling it was coming but that was only because Ethienne had come on the pitch

eyeball kid

18-19 now.

blackhound

Yeah discipline has been a serious issue for us.

blackhound

5m scrum I assume it's Cooney that came on and not Rodney.

its_phil

blackhound wrote: »

5m scrum I assume it's Cooney that came on and not Rodney.

Rodney came on

its_phil

Parks the beauty with a dropgoal. Love it

its_phil

6-3 for 20 minutes with 14 men is excellent going

its_phil

Fetu carries from our 22 to theirs. Pressure on Edi again

wp_rathead

monta foooook

freyners

21-22

its_phil

24-22

Laidlaw scores a penalty

eyeball kid

its_phil wrote: »

24-22

Laidlaw scores a penalty

Balls. How long is left?

its_phil

Parks penalty for the lead. Difficult angle. Misses just wide.

10mins to go

its_phil

CONNACHT TRY!!!!!

eyeball kid

Who scored it? Was it converted?

blackhound

TRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!














(not sure who scored)

blackhound

24-29

Under the jumper now.

its_phil

24-29

Brian Murphy.

Retained kick off. Keeping it tight right now

eyeball kid

According to the Rabo Match day tracker thing they are saying Robbie Henshaw got it. Doesn't matter who got it though! It must be nearly over by now though.

its_phil

Connacht penalty in Edinburgh 22. Park penalty 10m in front of posts. Last kick of the game

keith16

How come Loughney got binned?

its_phil

24-32

NO BP FOR EDINBURGH!

MASSIVE RESULT! Well done lads

blackhound

I really wasn't expecting a win at half time. Delighted with that.

eyeball kid

Great result. That should move us ahead of Cardiff and only 3 behind Treviso?

thomond2006

Well that's my Edinburgh season bet dead....

Anyway well done Connacht!

iamjenko

Great result! Big win for Conn!

.ak

Jeez last time I checked it was 19-18... Sounded like a cracker of a game.

Zzippy

seanin4711 wrote: »

blah blah inconveniently accurate stuff here blah
only one winner here!

You were saying?

seanin4711

Zzippy wrote: »

You were saying?

how many penalties conceeded and two yellows and we still mange to win.
seems to be our trend but the latter part lets us down ALL the time.
I am glad they won.
if your going to quote me quote me correctly.

"giving away penalties and wait for the yellow cards coming.
love to know our disciplinary record cannot be that good."

any of this untrue?throughout the whole season?

how is what i say inconvenient?

its_phil

seanin4711 wrote: »

how many penalties conceeded and two yellows and we still mange to win.
seems to be our trend but the latter part lets us down ALL the time.
I am glad they won.
if your going to quote me quote me correctly.

"giving away penalties and wait for the yellow cards coming.
love to know our disciplinary record cannot be that good."

any of this untrue?throughout the whole season?

how is what i say inconvenient?

5th in fair play league. not that bad overall. average in the league

Zzippy

seanin4711 wrote: »

how many penalties conceeded and two yellows and we still mange to win.
seems to be our trend but the latter part lets us down ALL the time.
I am glad they won.
if your going to quote me quote me correctly.

"giving away penalties and wait for the yellow cards coming.
love to know our disciplinary record cannot be that good."

any of this untrue?throughout the whole season?

how is what i say inconvenient?

Ok, if you go out the back door and hunt about a bit you might find your sense of humour again. I was only pulling you up on the "only one winner here" bit - i.e. oh ye of little faith... it was a lighthearted remark.

The rest of what you said was inconvenient because it was true, hence "inconveniently accurate".

Lighten up, jeez!

Funk It

Too be honest, I wasn't confident prior to this game at all, with the talk of flu throughout the squad and with then injuries we had, I thought it was going to be an uphill battle. Too many times I have gone to Murrayfield to see Connacht failing to turn up, although we had a chance to turn that around in one of Elwoods first seasons.

This was a great win on the road. Was only a few years ago that away wins were unheard of for us in this competition. Onwards and upwards.

seanin4711

Zzippy wrote: »

Ok, if you go out the back door and hunt about a bit you might find your sense of humour again. I was only pulling you up on the "only one winner here" bit - i.e. oh ye of little faith... it was a lighthearted remark.

The rest of what you said was inconvenient because it was true, hence "inconveniently accurate".

Lighten up, jeez!

try to be as realistic as possible every time they play.
I would love to see them play out of their skins every week but games where they could and should win they lose or struggle badly!
Games that they (on paper) shouldn't,they do biarritz and leinster.
They have not been consistent in the 12 years I have been attending games.which frustrates the be-jaysus out of me!
Ulster next week and I really hope that the place is packed and get on ulsters back and maybe just maybe we could get a result.
There is a worrying trend every season where the period after christmas we are always fecked with injuries and cannot take advantage of the other teams missing players through 6N prep.

Squad rotation needs to happen more and give the young lads a run not just when there is an injury to a regular player(Duffy and Henshaw).

Give them experience throughout next season from the get go!
hope Pat Lam doesnt have any pre-concieved ideas of who he was informed are the starting XV and he draws from a blank page as thats what needed!

Yours optimistically,
Johnnyboy4711