Sat 9th April 9th Connacht V Grenoble - European Glory

Billysays no · 07-04-2016 10:33pm #1

Will be an interesting game. Two teams that like like to play open rugby. If I would say Connacht have the advantage. We have held Leinster to no tries while they sat on our line. We gave two tries to Ulster. One was a pack being forced over the line (sorry Rodney where were you) and Jake is somebody you would miss. The other try was fast offloads and a pleasure to see as was Blade's try a pleasure to see. So should be a good game. Looking forward to it.

d2ww · 08-04-2016 8:32am

Is this on the telly?

connemara man · 08-04-2016 9:02am

d2ww wrote: »

Is this on the telly?

BT sport will have it

LostArt · 08-04-2016 9:32am

Hope Connacht win, but this game is probably more important to Grenoble so I think they might just sneak it.

vienne86 · 08-04-2016 9:42am

Team announcement at lunchtime?

galwaylad14 · 08-04-2016 9:58am

vienne86 wrote: »

Team announcement at lunchtime?

Around noon according to Newstalk. I hope there's no messing now with resting lads, play your strongest team Pat. We only have a handful of games to go. Let's go balls to the wall to win them all. Great chance to complete a famous double.

Robbo · 08-04-2016 10:09am

Linley McKenzie in the Advertiser reckons we're looking at a Bundee/Henshaw centre pairing.

thomond2006 · 08-04-2016 11:56am

Connacht team to face Grenoble, Saturday April9th, Stade des Alpes, 9:05pm

15 Matt Healy
14 Niyi Adeolokun
13 Robbie Henshaw
12 Bundee Aki
11 Danie Poolman
10 Shane O’Leary
9 Kieran Marmion

1 Denis Buckley
2 Tom McCartney
3 Finlay Bealham
4 Ultan Dillane
5 Andrew Browne
6 Sean O’Brien
7 Eoin McKeon
8 John Muldoon (captain)

Replacements:

16 Dave Heffernan
17 Ronan Loughney
18 JP Cooney
19 Quinn Roux
20 James Connolly
21 John Cooney
22 Peter Robb
23 Fionn Carr

Injured/Unavailable: Nathan White, Ben Marshall, Jake Heenan*, Nepia Fox-Matamua, Eoghan Masterson, Ian Porter, Caolin Blade, Jack Carty, Craig Ronaldson, AJ MacGinty, Dave McSharry, Rory Parata, Api Pewhairangi, Darragh Leader, Ciaran Gaffney, Tiernan O’Halloran

*Jake Heenan rolled his (other) ankle in Tuesday afternoon’s pitch session which ruled him out of traveling to France this weekend. An update will be provided on his expected return to play date next week.

Grenoble v Connacht
Saturday April 9th
Stade des Alpes
Kick off 9:05pm

Live on FR4 / BT Sport / beIN Sports

Referee Matthew Carley (England)
Touch Judge 1 Greg Garner (England)
Touch Judge 2 Craig Maxwell-Keys (England)
TMO Rowan Kitt (England)
Citing Commissioner Dave Guyan (England)

ClanofLams · 08-04-2016 12:10pm

Jesus Heenan really can't catch a break. Surprised not to see Conor McKeon benching, if anything happens to O'Leary in fairly serious bother.

former total · 08-04-2016 12:22pm

15. Gio Aplon; 14. Tino Nemani, 13. Chris Farrell, 12. Nigel Hunt, 11. Lucas Dupont; 10. Jonathan Wisniewski, 9. Charl McLeod; 1. Sona Taumalolo, 2. Loick Jammes, 3. Dayna Edwards, 4. Ben Hand, 5. Peter Kimlin, 6. Steven Setephano, 7. Mahamadou Diaby, 8. Rory Grice

16. Paulin Mas, 17. Fabien Barcella, 18. Rossouw de Klerk, 19. Mathias Marie, 20. Fabien Alexandre, 21. Lilian Saseras, 22. Fabrice Estebanez, 23. Fabien Gengenbacher

Not the most star-studded lineup but not a bad team. Looking forward to seeing Farrell.

vienne86 · 08-04-2016 12:44pm

Healy at 15 - didn't see that coming.

BrokenMan · 08-04-2016 12:47pm

vienne86 wrote: »

Healy at 15 - didn't see that coming.

Played there against Newcastle earlier. Did ok.
Worth the risk to get Robbie and Aki in the centre.

Robbo · 08-04-2016 12:49pm

There's gonna be tries, that's for sure.

Slightly worried about the lack of cover for 10 but I assume Conor McKeon travelled as a spare.

08-04-2016 12:51pm

Can someone edit some tables into the OP please.

Also, I would love in Billysaysno wrote a bit of a preview for us. Any chance we can bully him into doing up the post a bit?

b.gud · 08-04-2016 12:52pm

Robbo wrote: »

Linley McKenzie in the Advertiser reckons we're looking at a Bundee/Henshaw centre pairing.

Good to see this gif being used, hopefully we'll get plenty more use of it this season

For those asking about the game remember that it's on BT espn as opposed to BT 1 or 2

leinstertalk · 08-04-2016 1:09pm

No James Hart again, the hype behind him was some joke.

Robbo · 08-04-2016 1:40pm

Loving the nominated hashtag for our travelling fans on this.

#WeekendAtBernies

thomond2006 · 08-04-2016 2:05pm

leinstertalk wrote: »

No James Hart again, the hype behind him was some joke.

Racing don't think so.

leinstertalk · 08-04-2016 2:16pm

thomond2006 wrote: »

Racing don't think so.

i won't hold my breath waiting for him to actually play

freyners · 08-04-2016 2:50pm

Table for those who are into that sort of thing.

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typhoony · 08-04-2016 6:16pm

Is Muldowney injured?

b.gud · 08-04-2016 6:55pm

typhoony wrote: »

Is Muldowney injured?

He's not on the injured list

Billysays no · 08-04-2016 7:13pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Can someone edit some tables into the OP please.

Also, I would love in Billysaysno wrote a bit of a preview for us. Any chance we can bully him into doing up the post a bit?

Sorry Emmet. Too busy working on the outcome of my conspiracy theory at the moment ☺

vienne86 · 08-04-2016 8:29pm

thomond2006 wrote: »

Racing don't think so.

??? Has he signed for Racing or something?

ClanofLams · 08-04-2016 8:37pm

vienne86 wrote: »

??? Has he signed for Racing or something?

Yep.

Billysays no · 08-04-2016 9:11pm

For all the injuries I think this is a great team. Maybe matt at full back might be not what would be expected, would have liked McKeown on the bench. Just reading the selection I would say defensively strong and Connacht are not going to mess with the Grenoble idea of scoring from everywhere. So I would say Connacht will be tighter in this game. They know Grenoble will come at them. Aki and henshaw are in place to nullify that. And then poolman and niyi are there to counter. So an intelligent selection.

typhoony · 08-04-2016 10:55pm

Marmion to score a try anytime 5/1 seems good value, i'm expecting quite a few tries tomorrow. excited now

vienne86 · 08-04-2016 11:59pm

Hope Matt does OK at 15, but I love the midfield! Really loking forward to this.

connachta · 09-04-2016 10:19am

Yeah finally the Akishaw pairing! Can't wait to see this from the stand

CMOTDibbler · 09-04-2016 11:49am

Billysays no wrote: »

For all the injuries I think this is a great team. Maybe matt at full back might be not what would be expected, would have liked McKeown on the bench. Just reading the selection I would say defensively strong and Connacht are not going to mess with the Grenoble idea of scoring from everywhere. So I would say Connacht will be tighter in this game. They know Grenoble will come at them. Aki and henshaw are in place to nullify that. And then poolman and niyi are there to counter. So an intelligent selection.

A true Connacht supporter would know how to spell their player's names. Shame on you Billy. :P

Larbre34 · 09-04-2016 12:37pm

Not on Sky?

Bazzo · 09-04-2016 12:43pm

Larbre34 wrote: »

Not on Sky?

it's on BT I think

EDIT: FR 4 / BT Sport / beIN Sports

dastardly00 · 09-04-2016 1:24pm

Larbre34 wrote: »

Not on Sky?

BT Sport ESPN channel.

irishbucsfan · 09-04-2016 1:31pm

Kickoff time is 20:05 correct?

Bazzo · 09-04-2016 1:49pm

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Kickoff time is 20:05 correct?

Yeah 20.05 in Ireland & the UK, 21.05 local time.

connachta · 09-04-2016 2:07pm

Guys I'm leaving for the game build-up around the city G'wan Coooonnaaaaaacht

BrokenMan · 09-04-2016 4:14pm

Anyone know if I can get a legal stream for this.

Digifriendly · 09-04-2016 5:34pm

BrokenMan wrote: »

Anyone know if I can get a legal stream for this.

Is there any such thing as a legal stream? Highlights on TG4 at 11.10pm. Live radio commentary on RTE Radio 1.

Billysays no · 09-04-2016 5:35pm

The game is available on FR4. It should be possible to stream FR4 using a proxy server. If you can't get a stream I will upload the game and provide a link to it. Granted the upload (with my upload speeds) will take all night so it won't be until tomorrow before I can provide the link for you to download the game to your PC

gavkm27 · 09-04-2016 5:44pm

With a bit of googling i easily found 2 working streams for BT Sports ESPN,pm me if you can't work it out

BrokenMan · 09-04-2016 5:46pm

Billysays no wrote: »

The game is available on FR4. It should be possible to stream FR4 using a proxy server. If you can't get a stream I will upload the game and provide a link to it. Granted the upload (with my upload speeds) will take all night so it won't be until tomorrow before I can provide the link for you to download the game to your PC

Thanks.
I'll try the proxy. In the UK and have it recording at home so will see it tomorrow anyway.

typhoony · 09-04-2016 6:43pm

i've found a good quality france 4 stream, and it does'nt have any of those annoying popups, pm me for address

Robbo · 09-04-2016 6:56pm

McKeon out (illness). Connolly to start and Big George moves onto the bench.

cameramonkey · 09-04-2016 8:02pm

Jackman said FU.......ing destroy them.

vienne86 · 09-04-2016 8:18pm

Ah wonderful try Connacht - that might settle the nerves. It's been an error strewn affair so far.

A-Train · 09-04-2016 8:18pm

Try Connacht lovely hands

freyners · 09-04-2016 8:19pm

BUNTY is money

gally74 · 09-04-2016 8:19pm

Savage try

irishbucsfan · 09-04-2016 8:19pm

YOOOO

Swan Curry · 09-04-2016 8:20pm

Brilliant try,great pass from aki but healy's pace made that

thomond2006 · 09-04-2016 8:20pm

Whew on another day that was a try the other way!

Sat 9th April 9th Connacht V Grenoble - European Glory

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