Connacht Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread - Part II

b.gud

Robbo wrote: »

Not bad at all. I'd maybe put in Dillane on the bench as he's a bit fresher than Muldowney at the moment.

My thinking behind Muldowney was that he was subbed off where as Dillane played the full 80 this week and started the week before, but good point he has played a bit less rugby so far this year

Robbo wrote: »

I'd say Rodney can be counted out for a couple of weeks, understandably.

100%

S12b

Few things I'd love to see Saturday:

1) Buckley rested altogether with Loughney starting and Bealham/O'Donnell as cover
2) Ronaldson to start at 10 with McGinty on bench....not a dig at Carty but I always think Ronaldson looks better and I want a good look at McGinty
3) Aki left out of squad and Robb at 12 with Henshaw at 13
4) Healy and Poolman fit and available, there is a significant step down in class to our next wingers
5) Muldoon left out of squad with either SOB or McKeon at 6

thomond2006

b.gud wrote: »

progress

https://twitter.com/JohnMuldoon8/status/666278418191949824

Couple of tired heads in that photo!

connachta

connachta wrote: »

That's right.

But FFS rest Aki and Buckley

I can see

1) Loughney
2) JHW
3) AhYou/White (depending who's back)
4) Qualter
5) Marshall
6) SOB 2.0
7) Nepia (can be played as Heenan is close to full-return)
8) McKeon
9) Blade
10) Carty
12) Ronaldson
13) Henshaw
11) Healy
14) Poolman/Carr (one of them should get fit, it's been a while we're waiting now)
15) TOH

16) Heff
17) O'Donnell
18) Bealham
19) Browne
20) Naoupu
21) Marmion
22) McShazz/Robb/Niyi

b.gud wrote: »

Loughney
JHW
White
Marshall
Browne
McKeon
Fox-Matamua
Masterson
Marmion
Carty
Healy (fit??)
Ronaldson
Henshaw
Poolman
TOH

Heffernan
Buckley (no other real choices here)
Bealham (give Rodney another week off)
Muldowney
Muldoon
Cooney (if fit Porter otherwise)
Carr
Leader

I'd just want to "protect" Masterson, because he is sooooo good!! But you might be right McKeon/Naoupu are enough cover to risk him

wp_rathead

But Lam urged that further games hosted by Enisei-STM in their home base at Krasnoyarsk should take place in September or October when the weather is not as severe.

He has attached no blame to their hosts or EPCR for their nightmare trip home — they were grounded when a technical fault was discovered in their French charter aircraft.

“It is just something that has happened. It was important that they staged a game in their home city, nobody planned for that plane to break down.

Gotta love Lam's attitude infairness

connachta wrote: »

I'd just want to "protect" Masterson, because he is sooooo good!! But you might be right McKeon/Naoupu are enough cover to risk him

He was "protected" by not going to Krasnoyasrk - Masterson will play
In bit of good news, someone said that McSharry should be available for match vs Brive so that's a relief

connemara man

McSharry Instagram

https://instagram.com/p/9_Ly1WARx-/

Says his rehab is done

connachta

that's fu..ing good news. A good old McSharry/Henshaw pairing this Saturday, guys?:pac:

wp_rathead

CONNACHT GREEN LANTERN REPLICA JERSEY MENS 2015


Well this is erm, interesting..

S12b

What happened Conor Finn? Seemed to have had surgery a week or two back??

b.gud

wp_rathead wrote: »

Well this is erm, interesting..

Where the hell did that come from??

Anyone who wants more info on the travel situation, the article in the times has good info http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/european-cup/connacht-s-long-march-back-from-siberia-continues-1.2432189

flouncer

irish weather due to turn siberian by the weekend :-)

vienne86

b.gud wrote: »

Where the hell did that come from??

Anyone who wants more info on the travel situation, the article in the times has good info http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/european-cup/connacht-s-long-march-back-from-siberia-continues-1.2432189

Pat Lam sounds remarkably calm about it all! No point in getting in a twist, I suppose. But it's very tough for everyone.

b.gud

vienne86 wrote: »

Pat Lam sounds remarkably calm about it all! No point in getting in a twist, I suppose. But it's very tough for everyone.

Surprisingly so, I thought that he'd be going nuts about it

Zzippy

b.gud wrote: »

Surprisingly so, I thought that he'd be going nuts about it

What would be the point? Not like it was really anyone's fault, just bad luck with the plane. Sh1t happens, his attitude is just right.

wp_rathead

Muldowney tweeted that Himself, Muldoon, Buckley, Aki and who look's like Dillane and Carty are in London.. Slowly but surely getting home

b.gud

wp_rathead wrote: »

Muldowney tweeted that Himself, Muldoon, Buckley, Aki and who look's like Dillane and Carty are in London.. Slowly but surely getting home

Was just coming to post this
https://twitter.com/murphyrob/status/666352661646716928

b.gud

Zzippy wrote: »

What would be the point? Not like it was really anyone's fault, just bad luck with the plane. Sh1t happens, his attitude is just right.

I agree, but he has history of being vocal when he feel that Connacht have been wronged, the Hodges incident being a prime example.

I personally think it's great that he's passionate enough about the team to speak out on our behalf, if he feels aggrieved by something, so I didn't mean it in a bad way

freyners

That time there was someone obviously wrong and at fault when hodges invented a penalty. This is just **** luck

errlloyd

wp_rathead wrote: »

CONNACHT GREEN LANTERN REPLICA JERSEY MENS 2015


Well this is erm, interesting..

Love this. When are we gonna see it.

John muldoon > Ryan Reynolds

Eponymous

errlloyd wrote: »

Love this. When are we gonna see it.

John muldoon > Ryan Reynolds

BLK do a few of these superhero jerseys. They have an excellent Queensland Reds jersey in the style of the Flash and a not so excellent Superman one for Melbourne Rebels.

vienne86

Are the lads home from Siberia yet?

freyners

vienne86 wrote:

Are the lads home from Siberia yet?

Lads that went through London and Amsterdam are

vienne86

freyners wrote: »

Lads that went through London and Amsterdam are

So who's still missing?

Zzippy

vienne86 wrote: »

So who's still missing?

Jack Carty - flouncer managed to get him detained in Russia for visa violations and unpatriotic comments. The flounce told Russian security officials that Carty said Putin couldn't kick snow off a rope. He's on his way back to Siberia, to the gulag this time...

errlloyd

Zzippy wrote: »

He's on his way back to Siberia, to the gulag this time...

I'd say that'll make a nice change from the Stadium anyway

flouncer

Group 1 and Group 2 are in Dublin. The last group from moscow are in london awaiting a connecting flight

flouncer

For the fun of it I contacted Sky about televising the Brive game. I explained the story of Connacht in Siberia and suggested they look at the Connacht twitter account for pictures and video. Hopefully they think its worth broadcasting. Would seem that the last group that were planned to go through Paris didn't get that flight. That may have been due to Paris shutting down flights after last weekend or visas not being ready for the flight. Anyway there was a tweet from Joycey (kitman) that they got a flight to Heathrow instead. Now lets just hope they have landed in Dublin as the weather is doing its best to add to this story.

vienne86

flouncer wrote: »

For the fun of it I contacted Sky about televising the Brive game. I explained the story of Connacht in Siberia and suggested they look at the Connacht twitter account for pictures and video. Hopefully they think its worth broadcasting. Would seem that the last group that were planned to go through Paris didn't get that flight. That may have been due to Paris shutting down flights after last weekend or visas not being ready for the flight. Anyway there was a tweet from Joycey (kitman) that they got a flight to Heathrow instead. Now lets just hope they have landed in Dublin as the weather is doing its best to add to this story.

Well the weather is awful right now in Dublin, so there is bound to be some sort of delay.....and then they have to get to Galway ......nightmare.

flouncer

just looked at dublin airport arrivals. everything is delayed :-(. Hope they are already landed but no tweet to say this is so

CatFromHue

This is comical it's so worked out so bad for them!