Sat 9th April 9th Connacht V Grenoble - European Glory

Billysays no

Will be an interesting game. Two teams that like like to play open rugby. If I would say Connacht have the advantage. We have held Leinster to no tries while they sat on our line. We gave two tries to Ulster. One was a pack being forced over the line (sorry Rodney where were you) and Jake is somebody you would miss. The other try was fast offloads and a pleasure to see as was Blade's try a pleasure to see. So should be a good game. Looking forward to it.

d2ww

Is this on the telly?

connemara man

d2ww wrote: »

Is this on the telly?

BT sport will have it

LostArt

Hope Connacht win, but this game is probably more important to Grenoble so I think they might just sneak it.

vienne86

Team announcement at lunchtime?

galwaylad14

vienne86 wrote: »

Team announcement at lunchtime?

Around noon according to Newstalk. I hope there's no messing now with resting lads, play your strongest team Pat. We only have a handful of games to go. Let's go balls to the wall to win them all. Great chance to complete a famous double.

Robbo

Linley McKenzie in the Advertiser reckons we're looking at a Bundee/Henshaw centre pairing.

thomond2006

Connacht team to face Grenoble, Saturday April9th, Stade des Alpes, 9:05pm

15 Matt Healy
14 Niyi Adeolokun
13 Robbie Henshaw
12 Bundee Aki
11 Danie Poolman
10 Shane O’Leary
9 Kieran Marmion

1 Denis Buckley
2 Tom McCartney
3 Finlay Bealham
4 Ultan Dillane
5 Andrew Browne
6 Sean O’Brien
7 Eoin McKeon
8 John Muldoon (captain)

Replacements:

16 Dave Heffernan
17 Ronan Loughney
18 JP Cooney
19 Quinn Roux
20 James Connolly
21 John Cooney
22 Peter Robb
23 Fionn Carr

Injured/Unavailable: Nathan White, Ben Marshall, Jake Heenan*, Nepia Fox-Matamua, Eoghan Masterson, Ian Porter, Caolin Blade, Jack Carty, Craig Ronaldson, AJ MacGinty, Dave McSharry, Rory Parata, Api Pewhairangi, Darragh Leader, Ciaran Gaffney, Tiernan O’Halloran

*Jake Heenan rolled his (other) ankle in Tuesday afternoon’s pitch session which ruled him out of traveling to France this weekend. An update will be provided on his expected return to play date next week.

Grenoble v Connacht
Saturday April 9th
Stade des Alpes
Kick off 9:05pm

Live on FR4 / BT Sport / beIN Sports

Referee Matthew Carley (England)
Touch Judge 1 Greg Garner (England)
Touch Judge 2 Craig Maxwell-Keys (England)
TMO Rowan Kitt (England)
Citing Commissioner Dave Guyan (England)

ClanofLams

Jesus Heenan really can't catch a break. Surprised not to see Conor McKeon benching, if anything happens to O'Leary in fairly serious bother.

former total

15. Gio Aplon; 14. Tino Nemani, 13. Chris Farrell, 12. Nigel Hunt, 11. Lucas Dupont; 10. Jonathan Wisniewski, 9. Charl McLeod; 1. Sona Taumalolo, 2. Loick Jammes, 3. Dayna Edwards, 4. Ben Hand, 5. Peter Kimlin, 6. Steven Setephano, 7. Mahamadou Diaby, 8. Rory Grice

16. Paulin Mas, 17. Fabien Barcella, 18. Rossouw de Klerk, 19. Mathias Marie, 20. Fabien Alexandre, 21. Lilian Saseras, 22. Fabrice Estebanez, 23. Fabien Gengenbacher

Not the most star-studded lineup but not a bad team. Looking forward to seeing Farrell.

vienne86

Healy at 15 - didn't see that coming.

BrokenMan

vienne86 wrote: »

Healy at 15 - didn't see that coming.

Played there against Newcastle earlier. Did ok.
Worth the risk to get Robbie and Aki in the centre.

Robbo

There's gonna be tries, that's for sure.

Slightly worried about the lack of cover for 10 but I assume Conor McKeon travelled as a spare.

Can someone edit some tables into the OP please.

Also, I would love in Billysaysno wrote a bit of a preview for us. Any chance we can bully him into doing up the post a bit?

b.gud

Robbo wrote: »

Linley McKenzie in the Advertiser reckons we're looking at a Bundee/Henshaw centre pairing.

Good to see this gif being used, hopefully we'll get plenty more use of it this season

For those asking about the game remember that it's on BT espn as opposed to BT 1 or 2

leinstertalk

No James Hart again, the hype behind him was some joke.

Robbo

Loving the nominated hashtag for our travelling fans on this.

#WeekendAtBernies

thomond2006

leinstertalk wrote: »

No James Hart again, the hype behind him was some joke.

Racing don't think so.

leinstertalk

thomond2006 wrote: »

Racing don't think so.

i won't hold my breath waiting for him to actually play

freyners

Table for those who are into that sort of thing.

|
Connacht|Grenoble
15: Healy|15: Aplon
14: Adeolokun|14: Nemani
13: Henshaw|13: Farrell
12: Aki|12: Hunt
11: Poolman|11: Dupont
10: O'Leary|10: Wisniewski
9: Marmion|9: McLedd
|
1: Buckley|1: Taumalolo
2: McCartney|2: Jammes
3: Bealham|3: Edwards
4: Dillane|4: Hand
5: Browne|5: Kimlin
6: O'Brien|6: Setephano
7: McKeon|7: Diaby
8: Muldoon|8: Grice
|
16: Heffernan|16: Mas
17: Loughney|17: Barcella
18: JP Cooney|18: De Klerk
19: Roux|19: Marie
20: Connolly|20: Alexander
21: John Cooney |21: Saseras
22: Robb |22: Estebanez
23: Carr|23: Gengenbacher

typhoony

Is Muldowney injured?

b.gud

typhoony wrote: »

Is Muldowney injured?

He's not on the injured list

Billysays no

Deleted User wrote: »

Can someone edit some tables into the OP please.

Also, I would love in Billysaysno wrote a bit of a preview for us. Any chance we can bully him into doing up the post a bit?

Sorry Emmet. Too busy working on the outcome of my conspiracy theory at the moment ☺

vienne86

thomond2006 wrote: »

Racing don't think so.

??? Has he signed for Racing or something?

ClanofLams

vienne86 wrote: »

??? Has he signed for Racing or something?

Yep.

Billysays no

For all the injuries I think this is a great team. Maybe matt at full back might be not what would be expected, would have liked McKeown on the bench. Just reading the selection I would say defensively strong and Connacht are not going to mess with the Grenoble idea of scoring from everywhere. So I would say Connacht will be tighter in this game. They know Grenoble will come at them. Aki and henshaw are in place to nullify that. And then poolman and niyi are there to counter. So an intelligent selection.

typhoony

Marmion to score a try anytime 5/1 seems good value, i'm expecting quite a few tries tomorrow. excited now

vienne86

Hope Matt does OK at 15, but I love the midfield! Really loking forward to this.

connachta

Yeah finally the Akishaw pairing! Can't wait to see this from the stand

CMOTDibbler

Billysays no wrote: »

For all the injuries I think this is a great team. Maybe matt at full back might be not what would be expected, would have liked McKeown on the bench. Just reading the selection I would say defensively strong and Connacht are not going to mess with the Grenoble idea of scoring from everywhere. So I would say Connacht will be tighter in this game. They know Grenoble will come at them. Aki and henshaw are in place to nullify that. And then poolman and niyi are there to counter. So an intelligent selection.

A true Connacht supporter would know how to spell their player's names. Shame on you Billy. :P

Larbre34

Not on Sky?