Sale Sharks v Connacht 7.45 29/3/19 on BT Sport 2

Diabhal Beag · 29-03-2019 8:19pm #1

Match of the weekend without doubt.

Chris Ashton currently giving generic soundbites on Carty.

Tommybojangles · 29-03-2019 8:24pm

Nothing I love more than watching Co-Naaaaaawkt

Diabhal Beag · 29-03-2019 8:31pm

In fairness to BT there's a good bit of build-up on Connacht and very little mention of the Champions Cup. Pleasantly surprised.

leakyboots · 29-03-2019 8:36pm

Bundee has played 16 of the last 18 Irish internationals they just said there

Wegians89 · 29-03-2019 8:38pm

I’d have sale as favorites but if the pack can keep it fairly even can see a bit of carty magic giving Connacht a serious chance.

Tom curry is the one player I’m most worried about, especially without butler and faingaa. Big game needed from Connolly, who’s never let the team down before.

sydthebeat · 29-03-2019 8:44pm

Is that macksymiw chap any good?

Diabhal Beag · 29-03-2019 8:50pm

FUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

Synode · 29-03-2019 8:51pm

Butchered that

Utopia Parkway · 29-03-2019 8:51pm

Butchered that a bit. Carty and Godwin should have scored between them.

Bridge93 · 29-03-2019 8:52pm

Carty fair f**ked that up

Diabhal Beag · 29-03-2019 8:53pm

Hard to blame Godwin too much. Was a really poor offload but a great tackle. Should've scored that.

Swan Curry · 29-03-2019 8:55pm

sale very lucky van rensburg came off second best there

Utopia Parkway · 29-03-2019 8:58pm

Too easy for Sale there.

eyeball kid · 29-03-2019 8:58pm

Balls...

Diabhal Beag · 29-03-2019 8:59pm

Very simple stuff. Niyi have a rough return defensively.

29-03-2019 9:00pm

They're walking through us with the ball.... they look good for 4/5 tries thus far.

MarinersBlues · 29-03-2019 9:05pm

No injuries please, thanks.

Zzippy · 29-03-2019 9:05pm

Sale pack well on top and Faf orchestrating. Could be a long night ðŸ˜

Diabhal Beag · 29-03-2019 9:06pm

McGinty class so far.

Utopia Parkway · 29-03-2019 9:06pm

And McGinty nails both conversions from opposite side lines.

29-03-2019 9:06pm

This will be over in 10mins. Barely a phase goes by where they don't make ground.

crisco10 · 29-03-2019 9:08pm

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Hard to blame Godwin too much. Was a really poor offload but a great tackle. Should've scored that.

Thought aki could have worked harder to get on his right shoulder tho.

ScrubsfanChris · 29-03-2019 9:19pm

Kick over a rush defence. How are they not seeing that?

Zzippy · 29-03-2019 9:19pm

Sale defence up very quick every time. Hopefully room for a Carty chip and gather in behind at some stage

sydthebeat · 29-03-2019 9:21pm

Bull****e call. No material effect on anything

irishgeo · 29-03-2019 9:21pm

Mistakes killing connacht.

griffinlee · 29-03-2019 9:22pm

game is done already, you cant just leave 10 points out there in a quarter final. this could be a very tough day at the office

its_phil · 29-03-2019 9:23pm

Missing Butler and Colby badly here

Utopia Parkway · 29-03-2019 9:24pm

Shaping up to be an awful hammering unless we seriously buck up.

its_phil · 29-03-2019 9:26pm

On what planet has Denny not moved there? Being ridden by Raynal

testtech05 · 29-03-2019 9:29pm

The policing or lack there off of any sort of offside line in most games these days is a joke. Very hard to put together any sort of attack

Swan Curry · 29-03-2019 9:30pm

it's spring. the days are getting longer, the clocks are going forward, and connacht are getting knocked out of europe, as it always will be

DDC1990 · 29-03-2019 9:31pm

Touchjudge tapping the hooker on the back as he's lining up the throw.

No wonder it doesn't go straight.

Rediculous.

clsmooth · 29-03-2019 9:33pm

Ref blows up Connacht 2 for stepping in at a lineout. Fair enough it’s a penalty. Faf puts the ball in to the second row on the last scrum and nothing.

griffinlee · 29-03-2019 9:39pm

always wonder why go through through the process of the challenge cup , get through to the quarters, then field a team thats not at full strength

realhorrorshow · 29-03-2019 9:42pm

When I saw the teams I was worried that we would not win enough collisions to stay in the game and I think that has come to pass. Add to that our passiveness at the breakdown, set piece struggles, individual errors, bad reads, narrow defence, it hasn't made for pleasant viewing. Our attack is very prescribed, feel like we're just running through our patterns and not reacting to the Sale defence, like Cannon getting intercepted throwing a pull back pass that had obviously been called in advance but was not on at all.

Have to laugh at World Rugby coming up with all these law trials to improve the game when all day have to do is police the f*cking offside line. Hope we show a bit more guile in the second half and don't get any more injuries. Think next season is one too early for us to be in the Champions Cup tbh but we probably need it for financial and prestige reasons.

KBurke85 · 29-03-2019 9:48pm

griffinlee wrote: »

always wonder why go through through the process of the challenge cup , get through to the quarters, then field a team thats not at full strength

It’s what we’ve done all season. V difficult to win this season with Clermont involved

KBurke85 · 29-03-2019 9:49pm

its_phil wrote: »

On what planet has Denny not moved there? Being ridden by Raynal

He’s never forgiven John Muldoon haha

Bridge93 · 29-03-2019 9:52pm

KBurke85 wrote: »

It’s what we’ve done all season. V difficult to win this season with Clermont involved

But for the sake of one maybe two extra games is it not a very viable route to the champions cup? Especially as clermont are going to qualify automatically

testtech05 · 29-03-2019 9:52pm

That scrum was a penalty for Sale first half!! We get a reset scrum....

its_phil · 29-03-2019 9:53pm

F***

Diabhal Beag · 29-03-2019 9:54pm

Carty gone now FFS. The one player I wouldn't have risked tonight.

realhorrorshow · 29-03-2019 9:54pm

KBurke85 wrote: »

It’s what we’ve done all season. V difficult to win this season with Clermont involved

Realistically we're never going to win unless we come out of the group stage ranked in the top 2. Feel bad for the fans who've made the trip though.

troyzer · 29-03-2019 9:57pm

Bridge93 wrote: »

But for the sake of one maybe two extra games is it not a very viable route to the champions cup? Especially as clermont are going to qualify automatically

To go far in Europe you need to rotate players through your domestic season, so you need to be fairly confident that your squad can get you the thankless wins that'll ultimately bag you a Pro14 playoff spot. Connacht don't have that level of depth yet, they need their stars in key Pro14 games which means they have to cut corners elsewhere. The Challenge Cup is the obvious loser here because Connacht would really struggle to win it anyway.

its_phil · 29-03-2019 9:58pm

That is unacceptable from a professional rugby player what Godwin just did

Bridge93 · 29-03-2019 9:59pm

That wasn’t even close. And as Connacht start to dictate the play

ScrubsfanChris · 29-03-2019 9:59pm

Is that seriously the best kicker left on the pitch?

wp_rathead · 29-03-2019 9:59pm

Oh my Kyle

testtech05 · 29-03-2019 10:02pm

Hopefully jack isn't badly injured or it's a disaster with the last 3 games to come and he's our only fit out half at the minute.

Bridge93 · 29-03-2019 10:03pm

troyzer wrote: »

To go far in Europe you need to rotate players through your domestic season, so you need to be fairly confident that your squad can get you the thankless wins that'll ultimately bag you a Pro14 playoff spot. Connacht don't have that level of depth yet, they need their stars in key Pro14 games which means they have to cut corners elsewhere. The Challenge Cup is the obvious loser here because Connacht would really struggle to win it anyway.

Yeah I suppose that’s fair. It’s the same argument to a certain extent you see in the Premier League with team prioritizing top 4 over FA cup etc. winning trophies always should be number 1 for me. Sacrificing potentially winning a tournament you’re 3 games away from to try qualify for the Champions Cup seems rash to me, especially when coming second and maybe lower than that in the challenge may be enough to qualify too. Like in theory could winning tonight potentially see Connacht qualify if the other three winners all qualify by league position?

its_phil · 29-03-2019 10:05pm

Bridge93 wrote: »

troyzer wrote: »

To go far in Europe you need to rotate players through your domestic season, so you need to be fairly confident that your squad can get you the thankless wins that'll ultimately bag you a Pro14 playoff spot. Connacht don't have that level of depth yet, they need their stars in key Pro14 games which means they have to cut corners elsewhere. The Challenge Cup is the obvious loser here because Connacht would really struggle to win it anyway.

Yeah I suppose that’s fair. It’s the same argument to a certain extent you see in the Premier League with team prioritizing top 4 over FA cup etc. winning trophies always should be number 1 for me. Sacrificing potentially winning a tournament you’re 3 games away from to try qualify for the Champions Cup seems rash to me, especially when coming second and maybe lower than that in the challenge may be enough to qualify too. Like in theory could winning tonight potentially see Connacht qualify if the other three winners all qualify by league position?

Right except they’re two wins away from qualification in the league?

Sale Sharks v Connacht 7.45 29/3/19 on BT Sport 2

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