Connacht Rugby Thread - Part III - The Violence of the Lams

BrokenMan

Your Face wrote: »

Something in my eye...

There's a lot of somethings in a lot of eyes

BBDBB

Brilliant performance today, congratulations to all Connacht fans


Loving the irony that the coverage on sky is now making way for the greyhound racing

Bazzo

Lads... What.the ****. Unbelievable

razorblunt

Congrats Connacht, the fans, players and coaches.
Absolutely immense today, probably as impressive a performance as I've ever seen from a team in their first final.

Old fellas alongside me with tears in their eyes with 5 minutes to go.

Enjoy it.

MayoForSam

Leicester City.
Connacht (yipee).
Mayo?.....

razorblunt

By the way I loved the "Hell is the Soft Option" flag, take a bow whomever was behind that.

connachta

we've doooooooooooooooooone it!

nootroc

100% record in finals

drdidlittle

LuckyLloyd wrote:

Hammered!! Total ****ing victory! Another brilliant try!

MayoForSam wrote:

Leicester City. Connacht (yipee). Mayo?.....

Agghhhh here some things are impossible 😀

b.gud

Euphoriasean

b.gud wrote: »

Anyone got a full match replay. Would take the edge of the hangover in the morning if I knew I could watch before heading up the m18.

In jerry flannerys pub and his ould fella was as happy as any Connacht man!

Hulk Hands

Unbelievable..the streets of Edinburgh ringing with "connnacht is Galway only"

HanaleiJ5N

I'm Limerick born and bred, never really bought into the Munster thing, started college in Galway in 2004 and took in a few home games at the Sportsground just to see what it was like, over time I grew a bit of an attachment to it all, loved the people I met at the games, even made a few friends. Don't get to as many games since I left college, I try to get one or two a year, it was tough going until 5/6 years ago but it's been a joy to see the progress since then, I never imagined a day like this was possible. Not going to lie, tears were shed, I held it together until I saw Muldoon's emotional interview! So happy for them all.

And I'm happy for you guys who regularly contribute to this thread, I always keep an eye on the thread and it's good to get ye're take on things, if it's made me this happy I can't imagine how you guys feel! Party hard tonight guys, Connacht abú!!!

Donnielighto

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Unbelievable..the streets of Edinburgh ringing with "connnacht is Galway only"

What's that about??

Your Face

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Unbelievable..the streets of Edinburgh ringing with "connnacht is Galway only"

What does that mean?

Hulk Hands

Your Face wrote: »

What does that mean?

Dunno, just hearing it in groups here and there. Great atmosphere in town

Your Face

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Dunno, just hearing it in groups here and there. Great atmosphere in town

Doesn't sound like a good song to sing.
Connacht is five counties.
I hope you're trolling.

connachta

So Muldoon's 275th game was the best one

ixus

Been a pleasure to watch Connacht all season. Have found my interest in the game I love diminished somewhat due to the way so many teams in the NH play. Delighted Connacht won.

wp_rathead

Amazing
I was just glad we played our game and didn't revert to media's call for "Cup Rugby "
Amazing
#Lam4Sam

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Unbelievable..the streets of Edinburgh ringing with "connnacht is Galway only"

Hopefully that is BS or someone is calling people up on that

Donnielighto

That connacht is galway thing is awful if true

ronanc1000

Why wasn't Matt Healy selected for the SA tour?

mansize

"This is a famous win for Connacht Rugby, which caps a fantastic year for the Western Province." - President Michael D. Higgins today.

mansize

ronanc1000 wrote: »

Why wasn't Matt Healy selected for the SA tour?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Un89CHC1Ek

Mr.Nice Guy

Congrats Connacht. Great champions.

Billysays no

Grear to meet fellow posters today. Whar a day. Hoarse. Loved every minute

nice_guy80

what about the few Roscommon lads on the Connacht panel?

Carty etc

Cosmo Kramer

A fantastic win and a great day in Edinburgh, an outcome that was unthinkable even just a few months ago, but was very believable today.

Great scenes at Knock Airport for the homecoming now too, live on Periscope if anyone wants a look.

wp_rathead wrote: »

Hopefully that is BS or someone is calling people up on that

Nah, not a chance that happened, just Hulk Hands making up rubbish as usual. A very sad, bitter, individual judging by his posts on boards.

thebaz

ixus wrote: »

Been a pleasure to watch Connacht all season. Have found my interest in the game I love diminished somewhat due to the way so many teams in the NH play. Delighted Connacht won.

well said , restored my faith too in rugby , had gone back to soccer after WC , but Connacht victory today was what sport is all about , rather than the predicable theatrics in Milan.
say again , why Kearney is going to SA ahead of Healy is a shocking poor decision by Joe

Cosmo Kramer

Some crowd at Knock Airport, if that many people rocked up there at one in the morning then Galway will be absolutely rammed tomorrow.

Yeah_Right

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

Some crowd at Knock Airport, if that many people rocked up there at one in the morning then Galway will be absolutely rammed tomorrow.

Pics or GTFO.

Utopia Parkway

Hulk Hands wrote: »

Unbelievable..the streets of Edinburgh ringing with "connnacht is Galway only"

Been a season ticket holder for 6 years and never heard anything like that. Players from all over the province on the team.

Cosmo Kramer

Yeah_Right wrote: »

Pics or GTFO.

Better than pics, here's some video footage (from Periscope)

https://www.periscope.tv/w/ahlCMDExNjM4NjE4fDFZcUtEbFJubGdrS1ZgeX62AfBcakEo-L9Ny7gCLmUVWrTpRs3ZHG0XYQMQ-g==

Cosmo Kramer

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

Been a season ticket holder for 6 years and never heard anything like that. Players from all over the province on the team.

Absolutely no possibility that happened. Just a Galway GAA 'supporter' pushing his own agenda. No need for it on this thread.

Cosmo Kramer

Sounds like Marnitz Boshoff has been getting in some useful practice time in a team playing attractive, winning rugby. Contributed 21 points with his boot yesterday.

http://www.supersport.com/rugby/super-rugby/news/160528/Lions_demolish_Bulls_at_Loftus

http://tenplay.com.au/news/2016/05/29/historic-triumph-for-sublime-seven-try-lions

http://www.iol.co.za/sport/rugby/lions-maul-bulls-at-loftus-2027588

connachta

Billysays no wrote: »

Grear to meet fellow posters today. Whar a day. Hoarse. Loved every minute

Ouncer we ****ing did it. We're the best team in the league!

vienne86

Enjoy the celebrtions, Connacht! It was such a pleasure watching you yesterday!

WarZ

Congratulations to Connacht, fantastic season and an excellent performance in the final. You have some tremendous players coming through.

Billysays no

connachta wrote: »

Ouncer we ****ing did it. We're the best team in the league!

It was such a great day from passers by saying hope ye win to a bunch of Glasgow lads who were insanely good crack and fully behind Connacht. What a team 1->23. And the 24th player (our fans) were simply incredible. Havnt stopped smiling. A great end to a great season.

spurscormac

Champions 2016

civis_liberalis

Cúpla focal ó Pat Lam

Trophy presentation and closing montage

errlloyd

Finlay Beadlham was the only man to play 24 matches this year. Remarkable.

b.gud

errlloyd wrote: »

Finlay Beadlham was the only man to play 24 matches this year. Remarkable.

Also played all 7 European games.

Riders Of Rohan

errlloyd wrote: »

Finlay Beadlham was the only man to play 24 matches this year. Remarkable.

Plus he has great fat guy hair
Walking around galway so much big young (15-17) strutting around like pea cocks

Riders Of Rohan

errlloyd wrote: »

Finlay Beadlham was the only man to play 24 matches this year. Remarkable.

Plus he has great fat guy hair
Walking around galway so much big young (15-17) strutting around like pea cocks with the style

feargale

Congratulations Connacht. This is the best thing that has happened to Irish rugby in a very long time.

Cosmo Kramer

Surprised to see Connacht as far back as 10/1 6th favourites to repeat the trick next year, behind all the other Irish provinces, Glasgow and Scarlets. Not saying we'll definitely go back to back but I would give us as good a chance as anyone in the Pro 12 next year.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

How many players are Connacht losing and how many are they bringing in?

I would have thought Henshaw would be a big loss but they played the majority of this season without him so maybe not.

Sinbad_NI

Been avoiding all media until I could sit down and watch the final tonight...Connacht take a bow. WOW. Immense performance. By far the best team.

Whatever Pat has done to behind the scenes needs bottled up.
Love the willingness to play exciting rugby and 100% effort to a man.

Congratulations, earned and deserved.

BrokenMan

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

How many players are Connacht losing and how many are they bringing in?

I would have thought Henshaw would be a big loss but they played the majority of this season without him so maybe not.

Biggest loss to my.mind is Muldowney. He's just been absulolute class thus year.
AJ will.be missed as well but there is a direct replacement Inn Boshoff. Hope he lives up to it.