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

vienne86

Masssive scrum by Connacht there - chance for points in the third minute. Great start.....Scarlets normally have a good scrum.

Ach off the posts.

Diabhal Beag

When Jack slots it straight over with nae hassle

Bazzo

The scrum is a beauty to behold today. Scarlets will be sweating every time there's a knock on(from either side).

aimee1

connacht dropping the ball too much

vienne86

As soon as Scarlets get a chance they look dangerous. Good defence by Connacht though.

vienne86

Connacht scum is unbelievable.

Bazzo

Great control from Masterson at the back of the scrum there.

vienne86

Great try for Connacht there. They have dominated possession and needed to get rewarded with points. All thanks to a wonderful kick to the corner.

its_phil

Delighted for Jake, had a very tough year.

connemara man

Way too many missed tackles Scarlets are making yards of a retreating Scrum......

Bazzo

****, Healy looks hurt...

vienne86

Bazzo wrote: »

****, Healy looks hurt...

Seems OK.

Scarlets giving away a lot of penalites.

Bazzo

vienne86 wrote: »

Seems OK.

Scarlets giving away a lot of penalites.

Unfortunately not looks like Parata is on the right wing and Poolman is over on the left.

vienne86

Connacht are a bit laboured and predictable and not capitalising on their chances.

errlloyd

That ball was almost too quick.

freyners

Blade was silly there, hugely isolated

whatawaster

This on tv?

Bazzo

Scarlets sub on a new tighthead and get demolished on the other side of the scrum this time . Card has to be coming some time soon.

Need to get a few more points on the board before half time ideally.

vienne86

whatawaster wrote: »

This on tv?

Sky.

What a great try for the forwards there. Heenan again.

errlloyd

Great line out, great maul.

vienne86

Ref getting fed up with the Scarlets front row too - could be someone in the bin soon.

Great to get that try before half time.

Bazzo

Another good break from Henshaw down the opposite wing. Too bad he didn't get the offload away.

Inspector Coptoor

3 out of 4 kicks missed so far.

The %ages from the tee in 2016 are nothing short of horrific.

vienne86

Connacht are ahead mainly because they are completely dominating the scrum. Scarlets look dangerous when they get a rare chance with ball in hand.

hogandrew

Sky's analysis is very Scarlet's biased today. Hopefully Connacht can keep this up. The communication from Whitehouse to the players is very good too. He's keeping the game flowing reasonably well because of it.

Bazzo

hogandrew wrote: »

Sky's analysis is very Scarlet's biased today. Hopefully Connacht can keep this up. The communication from Whitehouse to the players is very good too. He's keeping the game flowing reasonably well because of it.

I was just laughing at that. 2 former scarlets players brought to Galway to do the analysis, how does that make sense?

wp_rathead

Our scrum dominating alright
But don't know if 13 points is enough - Scarlets look good with the ball and they'll have wind

Muldowney is like a man possessed

Bazzo wrote: »

****, Healy looks hurt...

Ya got his head in wrong position

aimee1

wp_rathead wrote: »

Our scrum dominating alright
But don't know if 13 points is enough - Scarlets look good with the ball and they'll have wind

Muldowney is like a man possessed



Ya got his head in wrong position

connacht set piece is way better. Think that will tell

its_phil

Have to say Whitehouse is using his assistants briliantly. Big ego on the man but at least he listens.

vienne86

hogandrew wrote: »

Sky's analysis is very Scarlet's biased today. Hopefully Connacht can keep this up. The communication from Whitehouse to the players is very good too. He's keeping the game flowing reasonably well because of it.

Nothing unusual in that!

Bazzo

Did the Sky lads have a bet at half time to see who could say "pudding" the most times?

vienne86

That was way too easy for the Scarlets. 13-8 already, with an easy conversion to come. Ominous.

Utopia Parkway

10 points conceded in first 5 minutes of 2nd half. Scarlets probably favourites now with the wind.

aimee1

thats awful from connacht. poor protection at breakdowns

Bazzo

Shocking there. Almost the entire lead coughed up in the first 5 minutes of the second half...

Buer

Cracking skills from Scarlets, in fairness. Connacht need to just settle their game down for 10 minutes, nicely helped by a brutal knock on there.

Still in control and in front.

Buer

Cracking skills from Scarlets, in fairness. Connacht need to just settle their game down for 10 minutes, nicely helped by a brutal knock on there.

Still in control and in front.

Bazzo

And Scarlets finally get a man binned for continuous infringements in the scrum.

vienne86

Scarlets haven't sorted out the scrum. Yellow and penalty. Connacht HAVE to pot the points here. And do.

vienne86

Scarlet indiscipline is awful.

Bazzo

That could easily be another card for scarlets. Dangerous tackle.

vienne86

Another yellow. Connacht have to capitalise here. What a chance!

aimee1

scarlets discpline is disgraceful

Bridge93

Idiotic yellows. Scarlets will never achieve anything with their discipline

vienne86

Ref is excellent. No one is going to push him around.

Bazzo

Shouting abuse at the ref? They're very very lucky he didn't see who was at that craic, they'll hardly be on his good side now as is.

Buer

He's like a young Nigel Owens.

If Nigel loved the pies.

vienne86

Try! Buckley - excellent. Pulls Connacht nicely ahead again.

errlloyd

Throw the ball to heenan, only thing stopping him getting a third.

CatFromHue

Bridge93 wrote: »

Idiotic yellows. Scarlets will never achieve anything with their discipline

I can see them getting another yellow too.

If Conn hadn't have gotten over for that driving maul try another yellow could have been given for bringing/trying to bring the maul down.