Contract extension for Shane Jennings as well, also no term given as of yet
I'd love to bait that poster into actually taking accountability for the tripe they pedal
Jansen just signed an extension, no worries on length atm
There is none. All of that talk is absolute nonsense. Just ignore the poster
My theory on those Stats and from watching Connacht: 1 Step forward. 2 Steps back.
They get to the edge and get driven back when they come back inside. Plus they make a load of handling errors.
As you said; its predictable.
Play beyond second receiver the most
Play wide the most
11th best dominant carry %
13th best gainline success %
I feel the Wilkins bashing is a bit OTT. Props and Locks arent very good in the tight. Decent lineout though.
Shay'moose' resigning is excellent news.
Any word on Sean Jansen?
The one thing going for Mack is he's an Irish International, if he was an NIQ player coming out attacking refs after a game he'd have the book thrown at him.
I'd absolutely love to see a source for this…
I think 1 or 2 matches would be a good outcome for both sides. Probably some sort of (suspended) fine for Connacht.
My understanding is that Senekal told quite a few people here in Galway that his preference was to extend his contract and stay. When that option was off the table he did what almost every rugby coach does - avoided any unnecessary media fuss, finished out his season, and concentrated on finding a new job elsewhere.
hopefully they benchmark against Sexton in which case he should get a one match ban and a fine. And a warning.
As a matter of accountability, Wilkins needs to go. Otherwise it's deckchair organisation on the Titanic.
I don't recall the Senekal's departure being interpreted a way to bring in Muldoon when it happened in 2023. Senekal was very effective, and especially dammed our issues in the maul. It was a big disappointment to lose him.
I hope Mack gets a small fine and nothing more. If players are interviewed after a game then some leeway should be given for them speaking emotionally and his criticism was largely systemic or indeed factual recounts of his conversation and lack of checks on the Aki hit so it's hardly in the sort of category of Sexton calling a referee a "cheat".
It creates interesting talking points and some excitement which the league and sport could desperately use a bit more of. The last thing anyone wants is for players to become reluctant to engage with the media out of fear they hurt their team with suspensions for what they say.
Nice the way Wilkins threw him under a bus. To say what Wilkins said was just pathetic
I'd be all for an experienced Irish head coach coming in if Davidson was interested.
I'm just catching up with today's news but it looks like we're already clearing the decks this Summer:
If Jeremy Davidson is that man I'm more than happy to welcome him.
You are a pain in the hole mostly Jim Demps, but I'm with you 100% on this: Niall Murray is too light to put up against a French pack.
Somewhere between a fine and a one match ban and a fine if he is contrite.
If he isn't, god knows.
As regards all the good stats, we need a no.10 to get the best out of what we are doing well on offense.
If they put up a proper argument for him it shouldn't be that big of a ban.
If it were me I'd say he was extremely upset after the loss, that's a human thing. I'd have Wilkins defend him and say he feels responsible as he should not have allowed him to speak to the media.
Mack then apologises for his actions. He should have went to see some sort of shrink so that he can say he's sought professional help to ensure something like this never happens again.
You want to bring it across as a mistake due to issues which you are trying to resolve. Making it human weakness and issues should shorten the ban I think.
Anyone want to hazard a guess what kind of punishment Mack is looking at tomorrow?
If he gets the book thrown at him by the URC would they rule him out for 6 nations and Europe as well like with red cards etc?
That is a complete crock of shite. Boschoff was already signed for the new 2016-2017 season before McGinty was signed on short term for the end of the 2016 season. By IRFU rules he had to leave at the end of the 2016 season because you you can't have two IQ players playing in the same position. So stop trying to play around and go back your Munster thread
Seems to have got a promotion at castre....or rereading I'm not sure if he has, new position is:
"advisor to the president for the club’s sporting development"
Not sure what exactly that role is. Id take him in a second, remember seeing him do the most intense warm up session I've ever seen a pack being put through at the Dexcom some years back when he was the forwards coach for......I'm gonna say Narbonne but very likely wrong.
Edit: Google says it was Bordeaux
Muldoon even tells the story himself. After one game in which AJ missed most his kicks and was having a bad run Muldoon went to the coaching team saying this can't continue etc. management agreed with him and went looking for a replacement and signed a SA player. As the season went on AJs form improved and Connacht wanted to keep him but had already sign a 10 so Irfu made them move him on as he played for America. Muldoon tells the story himself which is fair enough because it's not something I would do.
Whats this one about Muldoon and AJ? Never heard that before. I seem to recall AJ being signed on a short term deal (and as a bit of a punt tbh which worked out extremely well) and in the meantime a big money deal being done for Boschoff which went terribly but meant we couldn't keep AJ as he was NIQ also.
If we (Ulster) can't get him, you Connacht folk should scoop Jeremy Davidson.
If that is true then ruane needs sacking. It's bad enough Muldoon was the one who demanded AJ MacGinty be replaced. But now is the reason you lost your best coach. Connacht going down the route of Munsters Jobs for the boys is bad news.
Munster want tucker
You are completely incorrect, it's a known fact Dewald wanted to stay, Mossy Lawlor was also not offered a contract extension so Munster approached him, Muldoon fell out with Lam and was sacked along with Conor McPhillips,
i think the 'most meters gained' is a bit of a statistical misnomer here. Connacht tend not to kick or kick return very often. so the majority of the meters gained are from running kick returns.
For example in the Ulster game connachts 'kick to pass ratio' was 1:14, compare to ulsters 1:2.
In the leinster game the ratios were 1:6 for Leinster and 1:11 for Connacht.
Against Bulls with was 1:8 for Connacht and 1:3 for Bulls.
Personally i think teams know Connacht lack some hard carriers to get them gainline, so teams are happy to allow them the ball and by keeping a good D line Connacht, who have a habit of going wide - wide without much success, will eventually run out of ideas and turn the ball over. Thus Connacht routinely come out worse in the turnover stats
looking at the 3 games above heres the stats:
Turnovers won
Connacht 2 Bulls 8
Leinster 6 Connacht 6
Connacht 5 Ulster 7
Turnovers lost
Connacht 13 Bulls 13
Leinster 10 Connacht 11
Connacht 21 Ulster 9
Connacht really only have Aki in the backs and moose (who has been injured for a while) in the forwards who i would consider top end gainline winners. Double up on them and you severely reduce Connachts strengths.
I think what this really shows is we play 95% of our rugby behind the gain line. I think we're all tired of seeing us go through a nice looking pattern in midfield only for it to be shipped out to the winger who has no space and two defenders bearing down on him as at no point have we committed any men closer in. Or making a nice half break but still not make the gain line as we've played the ball back 15m before attempting to move forward.
In Sexton's defence that could be put down to not having any go forward from the pack, meaning we're always playing against a well set and organised defence.
Whatever it is, it's not working and coaches need to be finding solutions to it.
I've seen the stats posted elsewhere, they are fairly impressive. On first view they look like a team that has 6/9 wins not 6/9 losses.
The stats will tell you when we kick 30 mtrs but they won't tell you if we should have.😃
Joking aside I think a balance is needed between the defence and attack and it looks out of balance with us. Good attacking intent but poor ruck protection, good line breaks but mainly in our half, poor kick execution after a decent gain. Poor handling turnover.
We have started to run into touch often enough to look like it's a plan to set the ruck on the touchline to allow maximum room to attack but then it also leaves more defenders and we aren't winning any collisions as we shovel the ball across the line.
Teams just wait until we get to the other side and let us go again until we either knock on, get turned over or kick badly. All the meters still look good on the stats.
I would swap all the good stats for another 4 points.
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