Connacht Team Talk Thread VI - Some like it TOH

Strikes the ball so well

Very encouraging and enjoyable half, we've come with a game plan and have executed this far. The pack have been excellent to a man but I've been particularly impressed by the front row, and our back three have been electric with Murphy and Ioane at their best pulling the strings.

He's very good. Incredibly impressive to step so seamlessly into a new position.

Crazy harsh call to go all the way back to that. Don't think I've ever seen that called before.

Surely needs to be called live or not at all. Could be a huge swing

I think we are finally running out of steam unfortunately. That try disallowed was a real killer

Jaysus had to go out just after we had that try disallowed and we looked very comfortable at 31-14 up. Come back and we're 2 points down.

Even by Connacht standards that took some doing! Nearly didn’t get a LBP.

So we lost but a lot of positives along the way. I think Stu is not doing a shabby job after the Wilkins term. Academy is prospering and first team is finally developing. So for a poster who tends to post negativity I do see the Connacht story going in the right direction

If we could have held on for the win there it would have been a massive shot in the arm for the season but now it is another disappointment after 65 mins or so of very good performance.

Probably a bit obvious but the try being disallowed and then the mess between Murphy and Murray that let them in for a try after some great defense basically swung the whole game and gave them all the momentum and we just couldn't get out again...

Surprised to see so much negativity, thought that was a courageous performance with lots to be encouraged by. Disappointing to let it slip but would have taken that result before the game, there's no shame in running out of steam away in France against a strong opponent with a team full of teenagers and debutants. Not to mention the fact that we likely would have won were it not for an extremely pedantic refereeing decision, the likes of which you'll never see called against a bigger team.

Montauban lost at home to Black Lion this weekend, we should be able to rotate and still put a bit of a score on them. Unfortunately a home round of 16 tie is now out of our hands.

They had 13 changes as well. More excuses.

There honestly cant be another team in professional sports who have rolled over and given up as many embarrasing comebacks as we have the last 3-4 years. When youre 90% sure its going to end badly when your team is 31-14 up what's the point in even watching. What's comical is that in all the times we've given up big leads over the last number of years we always almost have time to come back and snatch it and we never do. On the law of averages you'd think we should have gotten a dodgy penalty from the restart at least once to get back ahead