Enisei-STM vs Connacht Sat 14/11/15 ko 8AM Irish time (Official stream in 1st post)

b.gud

#RoadToRussia

This week the Connacht team, and a few hardcore fans, made the 7,000km trip to Krasnoyarsk. There they will make history by playing the 1st European cup rugby match in Russia. On Saturday at 8AM Connacht and Enisei-STM will battle against each other, and temperatures expected at around -12 C, in both teams first match of pool 1 of this years Challenge cup. Ticket sales are reported to be in excess of 20,000 in central stadium.

Connacht have brought a mixture of Experienced and academy players. Peter Robb is making his first senior start and on the bench Sean O'Brien is hoping to also get his first taste of senior rugby.

The match is not televised but Russia rugby are running a stream which can be seen here * and on Youtube (see below)
If you can't watch it The Craggy Island Rugby guys will be doing a live broadcast on Galway Bay FM

Team line ups
Enisei-STM| position| Connacht
Iurii Kushnarev| 15 |Darragh Leader
Mikhail Babaev| 14 |Rory Parata
David Kacharava| 13 |Bundee Aki
Dmitrii Gerasimov| 12 |Peter Robb
Denis Simplikevich| 11 |Niyi Adeolokun
Ramil Gaisin| 10 |AJ MacGinty
Jurijs Baranovs (capt)| 9 |Ian Porter
Aleksandr Bezverkhov| 1 |Denis Buckley
Stanislav Selskii| 2 |Shane Delahunt
Innokentiy Zykov| 3 |Finlay Bealham
Uldis Saulite| 4 |Ultan Dillane
Viacheslav Krasylnyk| 5 |Aly Muldowney
Vitalii Orlov| 6 |John Muldoon (capt)
Andrey Temnov| 7 |James Connolly
Dmitrii Krotov| 8 |George Naoupu
Replacements
Nazir Gasanov| 16 |David Heffernan
Andrei Polivalov| 17 |Ronan Loughney
Evgenii Pronenko| 18 |Conan O'Donnell
Evgeny Elgin| 19 |Danny Qualter
Sergey Kuzmenko| 20 |Sean O'Brien
Alexey Shcherban| 21 |Caolin Blade
Dmitriy Simonov| 22 |Jack Carty
Anton Rudoi| 23 |Craig Ronaldson


EPCR have added the following Youtube stream

Did fans actually travel :eek:

thomond2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhZpNMn842kk

b.gud

Deleted User wrote: »

Did fans actually travel :eek:

ya

vienne86

Well I can see why there is no English language coverage of this - commentators would never manage the Russian names!

wp_rathead

Quality table OP

b.gud

wp_rathead wrote: »

Quality table OP

It was a pain in the h**e to do

Just spotted this pic on the inpho twitter

Korat

I met a guy from Krasnoyarsk a few months ago in HK and he'd never been to Moscow, because it was too far away. :eek:

There are two "Irish" pubs there though apparently.

b.gud

https://twitter.com/rugby_ie/status/665182805756919808

Zzippy

b.gud wrote: »

It was a pain in the h**e to do

Just spotted this pic on the inpho twitter

I've seen it all now. A Kiwi playing hurling in Siberia!

wp_rathead

A Russian assistant referee now
Let the tinfoil be made into hats lads

connemara man

wp_rathead wrote: »

A Russian assistant referee now
Let the tinfoil be made into hats lads

I find it funny it's travel issues that is stopping the other ref to be honest.

b.gud

EPCR have added a Youtube stream as well, I'll add it to the first post

https://twitter.com/ERChallengeCup/status/665209303977091072

Korat

Who is the Kiwi hurler?

vienne86

It's going to feel mighty strange watching rugby at 8 in the morning......reminder of the World Cup 2012 when pubs were doing breakfast!

freyners

Korat wrote: »

Who is the Kiwi hurler?

Bundee Aki

Zzippy

vienne86 wrote: »

It's going to feel mighty strange watching rugby at 8 in the morning......reminder of the World Cup 2012 when pubs were doing breakfast!

Hopefully it's a decent stream!

molloyjh

b.gud wrote: »

https://twitter.com/rugby_ie/status/665182805756919808

Were those unforeseen circumstances that he just wasn't arsed? Because that would make total sense to me.

Diabhal Beag

Reckon Pat would be warmer in the Eddie the Eagle costume.

molloyjh

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Reckon Pat would be warmer in the Eddie the Eagle costume.

That pic is hilarious. Yer man doesn't even have his jacket buttoned up fully and there's Pat beside him preparing for another ice age!

b.gud

I initially forgot to mention that as well as the stream The Craggy Island Rugby guys will be doing a live broadcast on Galway Bay FM I've added this info to the first post now

vienne86

b.gud wrote: »

I initially forgot to mention that as well as the stream The Craggy Island Rugby guys will be doing a live broadcast on Galway Bay FM I've added this info to the first post now

Ah cool - stream with sound on mute and commentary from Galway Bay FM!

b.gud

vienne86 wrote: »

Ah cool - stream with sound on mute and commentary from Galway Bay FM!

That's my plan :cool:

vienne86

b.gud wrote: »

That's my plan :cool:

I'll have to set the alarm to get my gear organised for all this......I don't usually get up early on a Saturday.

Dravokivich

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Reckon Pat would be warmer in the Eddie the Eagle costume.

Haha, is pat wearing all the merchandise he could grab?

connachta

vienne86 wrote: »

I'll have to set the alarm to get my gear organised for all this......I don't usually get up early on a Saturday.

What kind of abnegation is needed to be a Connacht supporter. I even had to test if my phone alarm works well:D

Cosmo Kramer

Predictions of 25,000 in the ground might have been a bit optimistic here...

wp_rathead

not quite the sell out they were saying..

Robbo

Fair balls to the Russians for streaming this.

If there's anyone decent in their subs, we should use this lad to nick them...

vienne86

Galway Bay FM......c'mon lads, get organised. Decent stream though.

gally74

Good run from Peter robb