Zebre v Connacht 5.30 Eir Sport 1

Diabhal Beag

The most pivotal game in the history of rugby union.

thomond2006

Go Connaught!!!

Diabhal Beag

Eir Sport commentator has the most disgusting accent ever

Wegians89

Carty arm is pretty strapped

Diabhal Beag

Two shocking lineouts from the Zebre hooker so far. Hopefully they can keep it up.

Diabhal Beag

I am in love with these Zebre lineouts.

Wegians89

Carty pinning then back with kicks, exactly what has to be done this time of the year

ClanofLams

Four penalties five yards out has to be going close to yellow card territory

Tommybojangles

Lads, I'm in the pub with no commentary
What happened with Blade?

ClanofLams

Five penalties within ten yards of the line, that should have been a yellow

ClanofLams

Tommybojangles wrote: »

Lads, I'm in the pub with no commentary
What happened with Blade?

HIA assessment

Wegians89

Surely the next one is a yellow now?

Evil_g

Tommybojangles wrote: »

Lads, I'm in the pub with no commentary
What happened with Blade?

He had a clash of heads and three minutes later the TMO decided he had to go off for a HIA. I'd say he'll be back in a few minutes.

ClanofLams

Six penalties within ten yards of line and no card is f..kin ridiculous

Diabhal Beag

Good kick from TOH

Wegians89

Butler and faingaa were two brilliant signings

Diabhal Beag

Exit-tactics have been stellar so far. Hopefully more of the same.

Utopia Parkway

Making hard work of this.

FrancieBrady

Time for a plan B upfront. It ain't working.

Wegians89

Frustrating half. The better side but should have more points on the board. Zebre could have had a yellow or two by now. Saying that if Connacht can get an early try in the second half can see zebre packing it in for the night.

Diabhal Beag

Feel like we're gonna have one of those toothless nights when it comes to their 22. Healy needs more ball as Daly already has had more chances in the Zebre 22 and he just came off the bench.

Defensively we've been very disciplined for the mostpart. A professional second half is needed and to shut these out as much as possible.

Wegians89

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Feel like we're gonna have one of those toothless nights when it comes to their 22. Healy needs more ball as Daly already has had more chances in the Zebre 22 and he just came off the bench.

Defensively we've been very disciplined for the mostpart. A professional second half is needed and to shut these out as much as possible.

Yeah we need to see the back three involved more. Farrell was pretty quite before going off, did he get back on?

Wegians89

In other news ospreys had a big win which puts them three points behind Cardiff. Could make them a little more interested if it comes down to the last weekend

ClanofLams

Wegians89 wrote: »

In other news ospreys had a big win which puts them three points behind Cardiff. Could make them a little more interested if it comes down to the last weekend

Definitely will. They have Kings next weekend so will be in hunt for play off spot regardless of what happens

Diabhal Beag

Really like Swifty as a commentator. His Celtic Tiger D4 accent colleague can **** right off though.

Diabhal Beag

Tackling was embarrassing there. Shocking try to concede.

Wegians89

Christ above

ClanofLams

Robb Daly is a bit one dimensional in midfield don’t get why Godwin wasn’t on bench

Diabhal Beag

This is not gonna be our night

Wegians89

All tempo taken out of the game by either penalties, particularly at scrum time or players going down injured

Utopia Parkway

30% of this game has been resetting scrums.

Diabhal Beag

That has to be forward surely? Great work from Robb regardless though.

ClanofLams

Connacht are dominating scrums but not getting reward, Zebre tighthead constantly going to ground

Wegians89

Copeland to make a big impact

Utopia Parkway

Fast turning into another away day horror show. Would take a 1 point win now.

Zzippy

My God this is frustrating

Tommybojangles

This game is full of "the dread" as I like to call it

Utopia Parkway

Carty kicks it dead. For jaysus.

We are really asking for trouble.

Diabhal Beag

Carty definitely still injured but that's no excuse for the penalty.

Utopia Parkway

Some crazy basic errors. Don’t know if they have one eye on the Cardiff game already but they’ve been dismal tonight.

mjp

Not watching this as in the delivery ward with my wife ready to give birth but it's edge of the seat stuff from following Twitter.

Evil_g

mjp wrote: »

Not watching this as in the delivery ward with my wife ready to give birth but it's edge of the seat stuff from following Twitter.

Lol

sioda

Listening to Galway Bay FM the commentary is excellent. Very partisan

Utopia Parkway

Let us never speak of this game again.

Zzippy

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

Some crazy basic errors. Don’t know if they have one eye on the Cardiff game already but they’ve been dismal tonight.

If we play like this Cardiff will hammer us

errlloyd

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Really like Swifty as a commentator. His Celtic Tiger D4 accent colleague can **** right off though.

Swifty is English and his accent couldn't sound less D4.

Utopia Parkway

Blessed if we come out of this with a win. Luckily Zebre’s place kicking has been muck.

leakyboots

Got the win, 'nuff said

FrancieBrady

Phew. Hard hard work made of that!

ClanofLams

Would have taken it at the start of the weekend. Copeland did very well off bench. As bad a performance as displayed all season let off by Zebre’s incompetence. Though I thought the ref gave a fair few hometown decisions. Now let’s never speak of it again.

Cosmo Kramer

That, was ****ing dreadful.

If they had a lineout they'd have beaten us by 20.