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Connacht Team Talk Thread VI - Some like it TOH

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Teferi

Lash up the deets. Don't even care if it's a work of fiction as long as it is interesting.

ShineyShiney

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typhoony

any truth to the rumour a connacht player was involved in a bust-up with English staff in the Ireland camp?

connachta

Former Former Former wrote: »

Treviso have played 11, lost 11, and they have 12 players in the Italian squad this weekend. I wouldn't worry about it.

On 11 they lost about 7 within 7 point-margin
I would worry
But less with Bundee in it

ShineyShiney

Some good sides in the cc not going to be easy. I'd like another crack at Ulster in the semis or final but would settle for Bath or Agen first.

Former Former Former

connachta wrote: »

Porch from the bench will cause damage against tired defence, has to come into the game early enough

Sullivan/Wootton have to tackle

Treviso have played 11, lost 11, and they have 12 players in the Italian squad this weekend. I wouldn't worry about it.

connachta

Porch from the bench will cause damage against tired defence, has to come into the game early enough

Sullivan/Wootton have to tackle

connachta

its_phil wrote: »

What? They’re the worst ranked English team and the rumours are that Hooper is losing the dressing room.

Go back and watch the Bristol game from a few weeks ago.

Form of 10 years ago? No idea what relevance that has

They struggle but when it matters they are there.
From August to November, they lost 1 by very few vs Wasps, 1 draw v Sarries and won 6 to make the SF

sydthebeat

I see ex-connacht man Stacey ili is starting at 13 for the rebels tomorrow morning.

b.gud

Shelflife wrote: »

Not having a go at you Zippy, but theres an irony in you saying that the Irish mgmt want Bundee to get game time because he was rusty when they are very happy to throw Furlong, Lowes and the rest straight in.

The big difference is the options available instead of Bundee vs those available as an alternative tto Lowe/Furlong. It's hard to argue against the form of RIngrose and, in particular Henshaw. I'd say if one of them wasn't fit then Bundee would have been in the team

Zzippy

Shelflife wrote: »

Not having a go at you Zippy, but theres an irony in you saying that the Irish mgmt want Bundee to get game time because he was rusty when they are very happy to throw Furlong, Lowes and the rest straight in.

Possible that the other options in those positions aren't regarded as highly, but Henshaw is playing very well at the moment and was keeping Bundee out of the squad anyway. If Bundee had played really well last week they might have been happy to keep him in camp this weekend.

Shelflife

Zzippy wrote: »

Decent team, strong bench, especially the backs. Great to have Bundee for it. He was a bit rusty last week but grew into the game, so you can see why Irish selectors want him to get more minutes for Connacht.

Not having a go at you Zippy, but theres an irony in you saying that the Irish mgmt want Bundee to get game time because he was rusty when they are very happy to throw Furlong, Lowes and the rest straight in.

Zzippy

Decent team, strong bench, especially the backs. Great to have Bundee for it. He was a bit rusty last week but grew into the game, so you can see why Irish selectors want him to get more minutes for Connacht.

its_phil

connachta wrote: »

that's clearly nonsense.
Not only based on the last 10 years but also on final phases this autumn, Bath is the only team above Connacht on that list, with Montpellier struggling.

We should go to win that!

What? They’re the worst ranked English team and the rumours are that Hooper is losing the dressing room.

Go back and watch the Bristol game from a few weeks ago.

Form of 10 years ago? No idea what relevance that has

Bazzo

Team named:

https://twitter.com/connachtrugby/status/1364907421685186565?s=19

1. McAllister
2. Delahunt
3. Bealham
4. Dowling
5. Thornbury
6. E Masterson
7. Butler
8. Boyle

9. Marmion
10. Fitzgerald
11. Wootton
12. Aki(!)
13. Daly
14. Sullivan
15. O'Halloran

16. Murphy
17. Buckley
18. Robertson-McCoy
19. Murray
20. S Masterson
21. Blade
22. Carty
23. Porch

Suppose the match being in Italy might be what gives Aki the opportunity to line out? It'll be good for him to get more minutes anyway and strengthens us a lot for another must win game.

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As our long awaited win in the RDS arrived as soon as fans were unable to attend. I would not be surprised if we were to lift the Challenge Cup this season, even a final it would be very bitter-sweet missing out on the day out.

KBurke85

I was on the Pro 14 website and noticed they have a very good stats section.

Amazed by just how bad some of our defensive stats are.

Top of the league in missed tackled

11th in tackle success and turnovers won

https://www.pro14.rugby/clubs/connacht/stats

connachta

its_phil wrote: »

How did you read that list and decide Bath were the hardest? They are the best possible draw of English teams left.

that's clearly nonsense.
Not only based on the last 10 years but also on final phases this autumn, Bath is the only team above Connacht on that list, with Montpellier struggling.

We should go to win that!

its_phil

connachta wrote: »

So avoid Bath and round of 16 is very doable should we be home (at least home-ref)

How did you read that list and decide Bath were the hardest? They are the best possible draw of English teams left.

connachta

So avoid Bath and round of 16 is very doable should we be home (at least home-ref)

connachta

realhorrorshow wrote: »

Is GSOB fit? Would be harsh on Oliver to miss out two weeks in a row, he's been one of our best players this year.

He did not look really injured after Munster A

He adds more beef vs Italians IMO.

I'd have faster 7 like oliver vs Scarlets for example

realhorrorshow

Is GSOB fit? Would be harsh on Oliver to miss out two weeks in a row, he's been one of our best players this year.

connachta

Changes to expect but not that many according to P.W

I'd go with
(assumin none of aki dillane and heffernan are released)

buck
delahunt
bealham
dowling
thornbury
boyle
butler
big papa
marms
carty
daly
sob 2.0
healy
wootton
porch

duggan
murphy
aungier
n.murray
sob 1.0
blade
c.fitz
sullivan rather than toh, to cover centre

RonnieL

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

Probably been a tough enough transition for him to be fair. Sent off a couple of times. On the other side of the word from home. In the middle of a pandemic where you can't really do much or go anywhere. Weather has been terrible to top it all off. For a player just arrived from the southern hemisphere I imagine it must fairly grim at times. Hopefully things improve a lot as the months go by this year.

Was about to make the same point earlier. Everything you said, plus the unfortunate timing (for him) of the clamp down on the type of tackles he's presumably been doing his entire rugby playing life. PLUS having to isolate that time because of the covid case in the back row. When you sum it all up, you can understand exactly why the rest of the squad were so happy to see him get some redemption.

At this point, I'd be happy for him to continue his bench role for the moment, while he keeps working on his tackling and conditioning. As Nigel spoke about recently, with our budget we've got to take the odd punt on a rough diamond.

realhorrorshow

connachta wrote: »

https://twitter.com/the2ndRow/status/1363541789613907968

Duggan on one side, Aungier on the other, Murray/Prendergast behind, Boyle,... Can't see Connacht disbanded with such a pack for the next 10 years...

Duggan's scrummaging really impressed me, Dimitri Arhip is no mug but he handled him extremely comfortably.

Tommybojangles

serfboard wrote: »

Was it just my imagination, or did his fellow players look especially happy that he scored? I mean, I know it gave us the bonus point and they were probably happy about that, but they seemed to me to want to really re-affirm it.

I definitely thought so. I've seen us score plenty of bonus points tries but there was something a bit different about Jack's leap especially. Great to see that kind of team spirit

Utopia Parkway

serfboard wrote: »

Was it just my imagination, or did his fellow players look especially happy that he scored? I mean, I know it gave us the bonus point and they were probably happy about that, but they seemed to me to want to really re-affirm it.

Probably been a tough enough transition for him to be fair. Sent off a couple of times. On the other side of the word from home. In the middle of a pandemic where you can't really do much or go anywhere. Weather has been terrible to top it all off. For a player just arrived from the southern hemisphere I imagine it must fairly grim at times. Hopefully things improve a lot as the months go by this year.

connachta

https://twitter.com/the2ndRow/status/1363541789613907968

Duggan on one side, Aungier on the other, Murray/Prendergast behind, Boyle,... Can't see Connacht disbanded with such a pack for the next 10 years...

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serfboard wrote: »

Was it just my imagination, or did his fellow players look especially happy that he scored? I mean, I know it gave us the bonus point and they were probably happy about that, but they seemed to me to want to really re-affirm it.

I was thinking the same myself when watching the highlights this morning.

serfboard

ShineyShiney wrote: »

Great to see Papali score, been a tough year on him.

Was it just my imagination, or did his fellow players look especially happy that he scored? I mean, I know it gave us the bonus point and they were probably happy about that, but they seemed to me to want to really re-affirm it.