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

connachta

15 Dan Evans

14 Jeff Hassler

13 JJ Engelbrecht

12 Josh Matavesi

11 Ben John

10 Sam Davies

9 Rhys Webb



1 Paul James (Capt)

2 Sam Parry

3 Dmitri Arhip

4 James King

5 Rory Thornton

6 Joe Bearman

7 Olly Cracknell

8 Dan Baker



REPLACEMENTS

16 Scott Otten

17 Gareth Thomas

18 Aaron Jarvis

19 Rynier Bernardo

20 Jordan Collier

21 Brendon Leonard

22 Owen Watkin

23 Eli Walker

ClanofLams

connachta wrote: »

Rather confident about Niyi and Poolman as impact player
SOB should be in form as he's prefered to Connolly
Muldoon as 8 and AhYou starting are worrinesses.
Very Happy Ronaldson and Heenan can start.
I'd like Marmion and Bealham to come in the game as early as possible, half time or so...

Muldoon was good at 8 against Brive (or at least appeared to be from my low quality steam). Agree on Rodney.

connachta

Btw Craig Ronaldson makes his 50th appearance in a Connacht jersey!

S12b

evil_seed wrote: »

There's no way Niyi plays ahead of Danie. He was rested against Zebre with this game in mind

wp_rathead wrote: »

I'd have Poolman ahead of Niyi aswell personally - he is due a try (if Robbo doesn't bet on him)

Billysays no wrote: »

Agreed. Ospreys are a totally different kettle of fish to the type of unstructured mental play that Zebre have. We are going to have to be defensively very strong to keep Ospreys at bay so Danie is an obvious selection

oneofakind32 wrote: »

Yeah, unfairness he did have a good game. Looked like someone who has been waiting for the opportunity. But Zebre are still Zebre, you would have to go with Dannie.

What did Niyi do to ye lot??

Ah no, I'd have Poolman as well for this one but Pat must have his reasons!!

connachta

S12b wrote: »

What did Niyi do to ye lot??

As far as I'm concerned it is 50/50 on a dry day as tomorrow. So it's ok...

wp_rathead

Underhill is not playing!!!
Massive boost!!

S12b wrote: »

What did Niyi do to ye lot??

Ah no, I'd have Poolman as well for this one but Pat must have his reasons!!

Reminds me of last year's game vs Munster in those awful conditions when Lam went for Poolman and Leader on the Wings, leaving Healy out..
If it is dry like promised could work wonders

MarinersBlues

I'm delighted Niyi is there.
He's lightening in attack and a hard tackler.

He does have issues under a high ball but everything else is really exciting to watch.

Bazzo

Little interview with Matt Healy up on tg4 player here.

Very interesting for one of the paciest wingers in the league to come out and say he wasn't always the fastest!

typhoony

Bazzo wrote: »

Little interview with Matt Healy up on tg4 player here.

Very interesting for one of the paciest wingers in the league to come out and say he wasn't always the fastest!

it's a good lesson for young players, i guess as a scrumhalf he had good skills and the only thing that was missing was physical development.

as an attacking winger is there a better player in the league, of course the ultra conservative and defensive minded Schmidt is blinkered to his potential.

typhoony

a strong enough bench for the Ospreys, in the majority of games recently we've had better replacements coming in, excited now but a little worried also

If our Backrow can impose tomorrow then we have the beating of them

Billysays no

Kerins was very good tonight against england. We have a load of talent at scrum half these days. Did I hear right that Conan O'Donnell is 18 stone and under 20. Thats nearly a stone a year since birth. Wow

b.gud

Billysays no wrote: »

Kerins was very good tonight against england. We have a load of talent at scrum half these days. Did I hear right that Conan O'Donnell is 18 stone and under 20. Thats nearly a stone a year since birth. Wow

Funny I walked by him in town once and I couldn't help but think he looked on the small side for a tight head, but that may have been because he was around the same height as me, ie a bit on the short side

nobbo

Word is that John Mul is out for tonight. Hamstring.

wp_rathead

nobbo wrote: »

Word is that John Mul is out for tonight. Hamstring.

fnck.
move SOB 8 and Connolly 6?

nobbo

I'd guess George to 8 and Marshall in...

wp_rathead

that makes sense.. Romaine on bench?

nobbo

Didn't hear who moved onto the bench. Either way, still a bit of a blow for a game like tonight.

Billysays no

If john is injured then likely tiernan takes over captaincy. If I remember correctly the previous ospreys game versus Connacht was his first showing as captain. He lasted 7 minutes. Hope he lasts a bit longer tonight :-)

Zzippy

I'd rather have Aly there, good head on his shoulders and TOH too far away from the action to influence the referee

Billysays no

On that count john seems to annoy the referee more than influence the referee so maybe its a good thing if the captain is some distance from the play. Enda Kenny would call him a whinger :-)

Billysays no

Go ultan dillane

Robbo

I wonder has Joe come around to the realisation that Henshaw goes better at 13, some time after the rest of us?

Also, if Cian Healy has managed to shake down the IRFU for however many €100k, Den Buckley is the Million Dollar Man.

Euphoriasean

Is the game on tg4 on sky or just upc?it it only on the red button.

CatFromHue

Billysays no wrote: »

Go ultan dillane

Ultan Dillane is The Man

calico77

Euphoriasean wrote: »

Is the game on tg4 on sky or just upc?it it only on the red button.

tg4 have election coverage til 1am

b.gud

CatFromHue wrote: »

Ultan Dillane is The Man

Keep your grubby Leinster mits off him

b.gud

Euphoriasean wrote: »

Is the game on tg4 on sky or just upc?it it only on the red button.

Tg4 are streaming it live, it's also on the Saorview red button

Robbo

b.gud wrote: »

Tg4 are streaming it live, it's also on the Saorview red button

Also Cula 4 on UPC/Virgin media. Channel 602 but sadly not in HD.

b.gud

Does anyone else get a bit embarrassed when they show shots of the dressing rooms that look like the dressing room at a GAA pitch in a town of a couple of hundred people

calico77

b.gud wrote: »

Keep your grubby Leinster mits off him

he has a gf in dublin apparently, and i read today that Conor Murray's gf is moving to dublin too.

Hagz

Forget Leinster. Munster will be looking to coax him back down to the Kingdom.

Robbo

calico77 wrote: »

he has a gf in dublin apparently, and i read today that Conor Murray's gf is moving to dublin too.

Oh apparently everyone's got girlfriends in Dublin these days. It's Leinster's number one recruiting tactic.

b.gud

Get in, what a start

Robbo

BUNDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Euphoriasean

The should have been a penalty to Connacht for not rolling away. Crazy decision

Hagz

Not sure about that penalty. Surely the tackler has to roll away

Robbo

No way he could have got the back back there.

Big George is looking lively this evening.

b.gud

Robbo wrote: »

No way he could have got the back back there.

Big George is looking lively this evening.

The whole team is looking pretty lively

Robbo

Dat Pass from Bundee.

thomond2006

Hagz wrote: »

Forget Leinster. Munster will be looking to coax him back down to the Kingdom.

Not for a few years anyway. Donnacha Ryan should have at least 2/3 seasons left in him and we have Sean MacCarthy and John Madigan as talented youngsters. Then in the middle there is Dave Foley and Billy Holland.

CatFromHue

b.gud wrote: »

Does anyone else get a bit embarrassed when they show shots of the dressing rooms that look like the dressing room at a GAA pitch in a town of a couple of hundred people

Some of the dressing rooms for the English Aviva teams aren't much better

Hagz

thomond2006 wrote: »

Not for a few years anyway. Donnacha Ryan should have at least 2/3 seasons left in him and we have Sean MacCarthy and John Madigan as talented youngsters. Then in the middle there is Dave Foley and Billy Holland.

Maybe the summer of 2017 perhaps? I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Robbo

Brilliant move off that lineout.

b.gud

This is serious attacking rugby from connacht

Robbo

Some latitude given as to where the mark was for that quick penalty there.

thomond2006

Hagz wrote: »

Maybe the summer of 2017 perhaps? I guess we'll have to wait and see.

I'd hope Sean MacCarthy and/or John Madigan progress to an extent that Munster won't need to chase Dillane. Billy Holland will be around until 2018 at the earliest and Dave Foley is coming into his prime.

Robbo

I've a feeling Chief Wiggum is going to cause us some problems later on in this game.

calico77

b.gud wrote: »

This is serious attacking rugby from connacht

its too loose though, playing into ospreys hands a bit

Robbo

Serious recovery from Ronaldson to make the tackle and force the penalty there.

b.gud

Ben John will be having nightmares about Adeolokun running at him for a while