There is nothing terribly interesting about the team selection other than is what it should be
Because they rate Gunne higher.
Thanks , I understand it. But I think(including my hope) Devine is above Gunne. And I have interest that how grow up Farthing from now, because he looks gifted footballer. Can he fit rugby after 4~5years?
going to mother macs pub for some creamers before match if anyone around 👍
Connacht aren't even close to being able to turn their noses up at Harry Byrne
Wilkins interview would suggest the transfer business is done.
I think when players are young and cheap it's about not putting all your eggs in one basket. Between injuries and how they respond to senior rugby we really have no idea who will stand up.
Ah stop it Adam. Don't they have Carty? He'll get them to the promised land! Lol
Treviso nick it at the end against Sharks. Hard to see a way back from here.
Results elsewhere couldn't have been worse. Scarlets and Sharks were both leading at one point. Not looking good, especially with the Sharks in the final of the Challenge Cup.
I'm guessing Bealham and Aki were away on international duty for the promotion photos.
Ref ignoring the fact that the ball hit him right before the try is so so frustrating.
Jaysus Farrell won't have impressed his new coach with that, woeful stuff.
What way are connacht trying to defend. I can't figure out what they are doing.
This has gone very sideways since we messed up Jennings break and it looked like we might be back within a lbp
The sooner this season is over the better. Totally outclassed as well as doing all we can to make Munsters life easy. That pathetic try summed us up.
If we are going to continue down this road building a new stadium is pointless because no one is going to waste their time watching this rubbish.
Can't remember the last time a connacht team makes me this angry.
End score is a disgrace.
So much wrong with this team.
We'll not get top 8 and we don't deserve it.
Embarrassing performance. Couldn't be bothered getting into the specifics, don't think I've ever enjoyed watching us less. We gambled hugely on inexperienced coaches and we're paying the price now. The stadium redevelopment is great and all but this coaching ticket could set us back years, we're wasting what is in my opinion a very talented group of players.
Jack losing the ball forward on their line at 14-7 was the turning point.
But jaysus, they just entirely gave up after that.
Very hard to see what Wilkins is doing, I'm not even sure he knows himself.
As bad and all as the coaching seems to be the individual mistakes and errors are a killer aswell. That isn't all on the coached where we get to the line and silly knock ons miss throw in lineout etc
Yeah that was a huge moment and then at 26-12 or whatever the score was where Jennings broke and we knocked on on the Munster line and it ended up Munster a scrum back in our 22 after Jennings knocked on the clearance. Munster got another try then and we threw in the towel
I agree TT however the coaches have to take responsibility for the collective standard of the performance. They have managed the squad poorly, they have failed to create a plan that the players can implement.
Lots on the players for individual errors but it's not a free pass for the coaches either.
Bad bad day, all our competitors for top 8 stood up tongue challenges they faced, we didn't.
Only thing I can say about the match is that we can watch Bambi Thug later. All said Jack was a complete disgrace. Couldn't be arsed sharing any other opinion
Jack made two tries with his long passes, his kicking out of hand and to touch was very poor. So frustrating that he can do the sublime and mess up on basics.
I was going to watch this one later. Watched the highlights! Connacht look so poor! Wilkins and the rest of the staff should be canned.
Haven't watched the Eurovision in 30 years. It is truthfully worse than any Connacht performance I have ever seen
The season was over. I am really afraid of Devine's injury. And what the CEO of this team is thinking if he release Thornbury (if it's true)?
I tried To figure out what connacht tried to achieve in defence. It was a half rush blitz drift which just made it so easy for Munster to get to the edge on the 15m line. It was a half arsed mix of 3 ways of defending but not committing to any one way. Hence some very soft scores conceded.
Bambi Thug was good , performed well, unlucky not to win
Now the dust has settled I'm trying to see if there were any positives from last night and there were a few.
We defended manfully, bar the capitulation at the end, and scrambled better than I've seen us. Carty put in some big hits too.
On Carty, as ever, a mixed bag; defended well and can chuck a wide pass with the best of them. Put a kick dead and went very short when kicking for touch, think this was intentional as we've seen him miss touch lots before.
Forwards fronted up well and scrum was good, one penalty but that did not look clear cut to me.
So there were some good bits there, which makes the end score all the more annoying. We can see there's the makings of a decent team there, but they just do so many stupid f-ing things that it makes them infuriating. We knock on in open play, chuck balls from off the line out at the feet of the sh, kick it dead when there's acres of space, switch off and watch them run in a try after a midfield knock-on, don't run proper support lines from clean breaks, line out is hit and miss- with a these bits going on its very tough to win games. I know people in here are keen to blame the coaches, and there may well be issues there, but there too many individual errors to have any idea if its really a coaching or quality issue. Probably a bit of both.
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