Connacht vs Edinburgh Friday 7:35pm Live on BBCAlba / TG4

connemara man

Well tonights match is fairly important

Connacht

Darragh Leader; Niyi Adeolokun, Robbie Henshaw, Dave McSharry, Danie Poolman; Jack Carty, Kieran Marmion:

Denis Buckley, Dave Heffernan, Nathan White; Mick Kearney, Quinn Roux; John Muldoon (Capt.), Willie Faloon, Eoin McKeon.

Replacements: Sean Henry, Finlay Bealham, Rodney Ah You, Aly Muldowney, George Naoupu, Ian Porter, Craig Ronaldson, Fionn Carr.

Edinburgh:

Jack Cuthbert; Sam Beard, Phil Burleigh, Andries Strauss, Nick McLennan; Tom Heathcote. Sean Kennedy:

Alasdair Dickinson. Ross Ford (Capt). John Andress; Fraser McKenzie. Ollie Atkins; Tomas Leonardi. Hamish Watson. Cornell Du Preez.

Replacements: James Hilterbrand, Rory Sutherland, W P Nel, Anton Bresler, Mike Coman, Sam Hidalgo-Clyne, Grayson Hart, Joaquin Dominguez.

We'll miss Heenan but it's great to have a bit of depth around the squad Faloon should have a good game. With Edinburgh carrying a few knocks we should look for a win but personally if we come out with a LBP I'd be happy.
Carty deserves a second chance so delighted to see him at 10 again, and wit Marmion and Henshaw back we'll see a nippier attacking back line. Hoping Heff has a good game he was great last week in the loose.

Connacht in a tight affair.

connachta

come on Westies

Neil3030

Actually find myself looking forward to Connacht matches more than Leinster matches this season.

AngeGal

Faloon should be pumped. He was Player of the Year two seasons ago, it must have been a little frustrating to see the hype (well deserved I hasten to add) around Heenan and for him to become a bit of an afterthought in the minds of some.

Zzippy

Scrum penalty for losing the bind against Buckley I think. 3-0

connemara man

That's not a good start

Zzippy

Leader misses a touchline penalty. Difficult kick, might have been better to take the lineout

AngeGal

Easy to say now but that pen was very tough one, might have been better off kicking into the corner.

AngeGal

Zzippy wrote: »

Leader misses a touchline penalty. Difficult kick, might have been better to take the lineout

Great minds Zippy!

ssaye2

Edinburgh strip the ball in tackle immense

Zzippy

Can't afford to miss those chances and give away easy penalties like this one. 6-0 now

ssaye2

Shocking

ouncer

Zzippy wrote: »

Leader misses a touchline penalty. Difficult kick, might have been better to take the lineout

Why not carty kicking that penalty. Well within his range. Yes leader can kick from long range but carty must surely be preferred when within his comfort zone. Very puzzled

Zzippy

That's a terrible decision!

Zzippy

ouncer wrote: »

Why not carty kicking that penalty. Well within his range. Yes leader can kick from long range but carty must surely be preferred when within his comfort zone. Very puzzled

Was same last week, Leader took and missed a fairly handy conversion kick, no idea why Carty wasn't kicking...

Tox56

Edinburgh look very well drilled, Connacht defence doing well to hang on

AngeGal

Jesus....

Zzippy

Leader misses again, much easier one this time.

molloyjh

Edinburgh look fairly decent. But can't help think they're making ground far too easily. Connacht suffering from not having a reliable placekicker.

ouncer

Zzippy wrote: »

Was same last week, Leader took and missed a fairly handy conversion kick, no idea why Carty wasn't kicking...

OK its carty or line position. Leader is playing fine but he ain't no goal kicker

ouncer

Well done dani poolman

Tox56

What the hell ref, play advantage if you're going to give the pen don't just blow it up straight away when one team has a load of momentum

Also Marmion's passing doesn't look very crisp today

Zzippy

Finally! Couldn't miss that one!

molloyjh

Good carry from McSharry (apologies) in that passage. Well deserved 3 there. Connacht need to build on this now.

AngeGal

Great take by Leader, should give him some confidence.

molloyjh

Ah seriously Henshaw, what was that!? Don't get too loose.

connemara man

Henshaw forcing it for no reason.

ouncer

Ok this is lunacy. You give carty a chance or you don't. Its mental to use darragh as kicker as his percentages are rubbish. Otherwise darragh is doing great.

molloyjh

Madness from Edinburgh there, but lovely kick from Carty.

AngeGal

Beautiful kick by Carty. Need to get points on board here.

connemara man

Great kick and pressure there

Zzippy

Terrible pass Edinburgh. Chance here...

ouncer

What a kick by carty ☺

Zzippy

Ah Carty FFS!

Tox56

That was absolutely shocking

molloyjh

Great kick from Carty followed by a completely wasteful one. That was terrible. Perfect field position lost.

ouncer

ouncer wrote: »

What a kick by carty ☺

And ya let me down with a stupid kick a minute later

connemara man

ouncer wrote: »

And ya let me down with a stupid kick a minute later

The boardsie curse Ouncer

Carty's option was right, execution was awful though unfortunately!

molloyjh

Poor pass from Marmion.

Zzippy

molloyjh wrote: »

Poor pass from Marmion.

For the knock on? I think that was Henshaw

connemara man

This is very frustrating

molloyjh

Another opportunity lost. Connacht need to learn to start converting territory into points badly.

gally74

Scrum is awesom

molloyjh

Zzippy wrote: »

For the knock on? I think that was Henshaw

Fairly sure it was Marmion, but could be wrong.

molloyjh

Take your 3 ffs!!!

AngeGal

molloyjh wrote: »

Another opportunity lost. Connacht need to learn to start converting territory into points badly.

Yeah, very frustrating to be three points behind at this stage considering how the game has gone.

Zzippy

molloyjh wrote: »

Take your 3 ffs!!!

It was a free kick not a pen

Utopia Parkway

Henshaw very rusty.

molloyjh

Another opportunity to come away with points thrown away. This is bloody frustrating.

wp_rathead

I like the rugby we trying play buy once our ruthlessness is again letting us down..

A win is def possiblly on the cards if we convery chances made