Connacht Team Talk Thread VI - Some like it TOH

Because they rate Gunne higher.

Wilkins interview would suggest the transfer business is done.

Ah stop it Adam. Don't they have Carty? He'll get them to the promised land! Lol

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.

Ref ignoring the fact that the ball hit him right before the try is so so frustrating.

What way are connacht trying to defend. I can't figure out what they are doing.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.