Connacht Team Talk Thread VI - Some like it TOH

Cullie Tucker named in POC's backroom team for the Summer tour

It's late for sure, and I assume it's going to be a complex renewal this year with the new stand, and it not being available for the start of the season (last I heard it was going to be ready by end of October).

I wonder will they make the terrace at the front of the stand available for the start of the season, with seats in the tiers above coming a bit later?

It'll be interesting to see regarding season tickets. If the end date was October would it be worth approaching the URC with a view to getting a bulk of away fixtures done early as the start date of the league is now more late September. That's a double edged sword. It worked well for us in the end in 22/23 getting a lot of hard away games out of the way early but a lot fell right for us that year.

A season ticket is a hard sell at the moment. The stand is making great progress but it's still a building site and people won't want to commit to a season ticket if they aren't sure it'll be ready and on the field we need some positive results and something in the background to indicate next season won't be another wasted season.

I hope this is allowed - I have two tickets for this Saturday's game, in the Burkeway Homes seated stand, but won't be able to make it due to a bad back (why I purchased seated tickets to begin with! things got worse unfortunately) and would like these to go to a good home! If anyone is interested, please send me a DM.

for me it’s on too late and there’s no trains afterwards. We have had a couple of these 8pm games and it simply makes attending the match more difficult and significantly more expensive. If it was on at 3pm I’d be there

We could do with some positivity around the place, any win will do.

WaWas the team due to be announced at 12pm as usual ?

No Forde again. Not saying he's had a great season but seems silly to leave him out 2 weeks in a row when he's seemingly fit in favour of a lad that's out the door.

There's been gossip about Ulster and Devine being mutually interested. Started on reddit, claims that he wanted to leave because he wasn't getting enough minutes. Unlikely to be true.

Hopefully not would be sickener to lose

And hopefully to stay for much longer than that if he can keep up his development

Understand how you feel about Devine but think it's just internet gossip. And he starts tomorrow which is a good sign, it's a season-defining game.

Jack seems to be just out of favour with management, so on some version of gardening leave. It's pretty shameful really. For some time I have hoped that popular podcasts would put more effort into holding decision makers to account rather than just exploiting fandom for clicks. Alas…

Pretty sure Roux signed an extension earlier in the year. Not sure the current iteration of Connacht are anything that would tempt anyone away from Bath.

Doesn't seem to be any talk of Pete's return, hope he's ok as it's a couple of weeks now with no word.

Just bumping this; I've two seated tickets and am not asking for anything for them, just want to see them used - please send me a DM if interested.