Connacht Team Talk Thread VI - Some like it TOH

Not sure about this one

After sustaining a serious knee injury against Harlequins last month, Carey will complete his rehabilitation at Franklin’s Gardens before deciding on his future when back to full fitness.

The best pick would be him. Released without destination

Would be amazing

Hard to see us signing an NIQ tighthead with Alaalatoa and Toomaga-Allen at Leinster/Ulster, but who knows.

Ben Betts, Oisin Heffernan, Conor Kenny and a few others are playing in England. There's also the likes of Dave Ryan and Jamie Hagan (and Rodney lol) knocking about France, both are old but still getting through a decent amount of games each season so must be in half decent shape.

Hagan and Ryan are 35 and 36. No

Heff O. and Kenny are under contract

Betts is the only in an unknown situation.

But with only Porch, Fifita and Langton NIQ

There's room to sign one IMO

After reading it in full it seems he learnt what not to do in that game and Leicester game

Whereby Connacht and Leicester gave Leinster too much space.

Delighted for him, am sure he'll make a big contribution there. If he gets homesick, he can drop over to Brive and hang out with Papa Leahy and Sammy Arnold, it's pretty nearby.

Delighted for him. Well earned and hope he smashes it out there

The saffers are in. Connacht are not good enough at the moment.

I'd genuinely hate to get in this way.

We were nowhere good enough this year. Not only losing but getting pumped by at home to both the dragon's and glasgow should be a disqualifier.

Season in the challenge cup would do us no harm. Get some of the newer squad and academy promotes integrated properly, fix our shocking defense and tendency to lose focus and can come back to the league a far more dangerous team.... hopefully

Jack Carty has a photo up on Instagram seems he has had an operation on his arm so looks like he won't be going on tour to NZ.

Langton yeah and hopefully new TH

Disappointed for Gavin Thornbury, but the timing of his recovery meant there wasn't opportunity to set out his case. Personally, I would have had him in the squad instead of Treadwell. Delighted for Cian P, just reward for an outstanding season.

I don't know but I'd imagine that it is more down to the fact that it was already known a week or 2 ago that he was injured. The guys specifically called out as being injured were fairly new injuries. For instance there is no mention of Will Connors who was already known to be injured. That is not to say that his intl career is alive and well I just think that is why he wasn't specifically mentioned

I agree with bazwraf, since selection for the 6NN's squad, Jack hasn't put in a great performance to out the selectors into a dilemma. He's been mixed. The good news for him is that the drama around the future of 10 in Ireland shows no sign of abating, there is still a path for him albeit hard.

This situation has not been well handled by the Irish management, but next season the cast will be even bigger. HB and, surely, Frawley in Leinster. If management sees what many fans believe (not a given), the Munster 10 jersey will be between Healy and Crowley. Jack at Connacht, and maybe even Flannery, and unknown quantity, at Ulster (I think Burns is unlikely to have any type of a shot).

I feel sorry for Carberry, think he's been mickeyed around as well as being unlucky with injury. A similar process at FB for Ireland resulted in Larmour being picked there to his disadvantage (Henshaw too briefly), thankfully the discovery of Keeenan ended that.